The Postcard Killer

"John Frank Hickey strangled his first victim five years before Jack the Ripper began his killing rampage in London. And yet, perhaps because of the horrifying nature of his crimes, he has remained a stranger to history. Now, for the first time ever, his story is revealed in detal: that of a solitary milquetoast of a man who wandered the American East Coast for decades, harboring a terrifying assortment of personal demons. Many of the patterns of behavior that have come to be recognized trademarks of the sociopathic killer are revealed in Hickey's long and demented life of crime, documented…