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Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder Paperback – August 16, 2004

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The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American landscape. Reactions to these modern-day monsters range from revulsion to morbid fascination-fascination that is either fed by, or a product of, the saturation coverage provided by print and broadcast media, along with a dizzying array of books, documentary films, websites, and "Movies of the Week". The prevalence in Western culture of images of serial killers (and mass murderers) has created in the public mind a consensus view of what a serial killer is. Most people are aware, to some degree, of the classic serial killer 'profile.' But what if there is a much different 'profile'-one that has not received much media attention? In Programmed to Kill, acclaimed and always controversial author David McGowan takes a fresh look at the lives of many of America's most notorious accused murderers, focusing on the largely hidden patterns that suggest that there may be more to the average serial killer story than meets the eye. Think you know everything there is to know about serial killers? Or is it possible that sometimes what everyone 'knows' to be true isn't really true at all?

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E. Comella

Watch who you trust

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2016

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A lot of supporting material is presented in the first 300 pages. It is not until page 306 that the author finally shares his conclusions about what he feels is really going on. The most effective way to control people is through fear, whether it is one individual or an entire country. Random killings keep people off balance and more accepting of their loss of liberty and growing government control. This book discusses the enormity of child abuse and its appeal to the rich and powerful. It discusses the use of mind control to create programmed assassins and also the patsies who often end up taking the fall. The collusion of law enforcement and the justice system allows for the proliferation of atrocities. This book is both disturbing and fascinating. It is well worth the time to read it. Having read it I am certainly much less trusting of the intentions of those in positions of power.

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Jim Boccio

"Murder",a Global Conspiracy

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What a great book for those interested in serial killers or why people and kids go missing, there seems to be a macabre connection between Politicians, the C.I.A. or U.S.Military,Satanists,Doctors,Entertainers and the rich Elite,just a fascinating read it talks about 28 killers and then some others you've never heard of.Tremendous research by author David McGowan who will be sorely missed, oddly enough in interviews David joked about being killed for his research and as Jack Ruby said while in prison "The Government killed me with Cancer" so who knows, that aside one interesting find in the book I thought was that the Mafias "Murder Inc" for hire faction has been replaced by "The Black Cross" a faction of the Process Church of the Final Judgements "Four P-cult" and functions as a "Satanic Murder Inc".

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Erik Rodriguez

Scariest part is....It's real.

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2018

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This is one of the best books i have ever read. Where do i start?
It speaks of the really bad things that go on in the shadows of society here and throughout the world. It involves serial murder, drug running, child kidnapping, child sacrifice, SRA (Satanic Ritual Abuse) and all that entails. Apparently some of it if not most of it seems to be linked together through mind controlled slaves, secret societies and the military industrial complex. Please read carefully as this book has some pretty nasty and all too real accounts of the worst the human mind has to offer. Be careful and stay woke.

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D. Siess

This book should be part of the library of every ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2018

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This book should be part of the library of every conspiracy freak on the planet.
Details the dark "coincidental" ties between systematic child abuse, mass manipulation, the government, your "leaders" and every murderer/serial killer you have ever heard of.
If you want to see deeper into the dark, awful truth get this book. If not, get back to Facebook, friend.

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jeffy c edie

very good eye opening, about a previously unknown and untold US government corruption.

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2019

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a relentless and eyes wide open direct view of the true evil in the underworld sub-culture of parents who inflict, or have others inflict torturous systematic abuse of their children, and how these severely abused mostly young men, grow into programmed killers, who are enabled and used by the CIA or other nefarious intelligence governmental or private intelligence organizations, to kill who they're instructed to kill. some of these man-made monsters will never be caught, while others are made patsies to take the blame for the heinous slaughters of people done by other so-called "serial killers."
a very informative, but disturbing look at the truth behind what has been labeled as "serial killings" done by so-called "serial killers", slaughters previously thought to be completely random, and senseless.
we miss David McGowan, and his brilliant unflinching investigative journalistic writings. David having died in 2015 of lung cancer at 55 years old. his death is another very odd, and curious event, having been healthy all his life.
a great book, worth the price, and you won't put it down until you're finished reading it.

jeffy c edie.

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Gordon H. Clark

Horrifying, enlightening.

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2013

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Programmed to Kill should be read by every truth seeker who can handle it.
It's amazing to live in these times as the veils are lifted all around us. I used to think that anything "satanic" was just a joke, like some of the negative "reviewers" who probably did not read the book.
I remember the media circuses around the Boston Strangler, Richard Speck, and others, and it's clear the media purposely see no deeper evil.
You don't have to believe the devil is a living being to understand that satanism is the religion of the psychopathic power trippers, and satanic rituals reinforce the death of any shred of "conscience" and close this insider group together against the rest of the world.
Dave did a lot of research that "mainstream media" would never touch. After all, influencing public opinion to make democracy safe for fascism is their job.
People who have awoken since 9/11 can understand the "strategy of tension", as revealed about the Gladio program--keep the public scared, so the authorities gain absolute power.
I get it now--Aleister Crowley was no joker. People who idolize him idolize any and all crimes including child kidnapping, torture, mutilation, and rape, even of small children.
It's hard to read and hard to put down this book. It is very well documented, and reveals the most scary side of how evil criminals are used by government to demoralize the public.
We can not hide from the fact that our government kidnaps and tortures people. These programs have roots in satanism, with "people" like Lt. Col Michael Aquino, founder of a satanist temple, their architects.
This is a very important book. Read it!

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ElEl

A very important must-read book. David McGowan shows a ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2016

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A very important must-read book. David McGowan shows a clarity in his analysis and writing that few others can match or surpass. If you haven't read Programmed to Kill, you are probably badly misled as to the nature of "serial killers". Also essential reading for anyone researching MK Ultra/Monarch mind control.

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Ernie

Another great book by David McGowan

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2016

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Another great book by David McGowan. This is not a blood and gore book, but really is the POLITICS of all these serial killers.

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Incognito

One of the most important books of the 21st Centruy ...R.I.P David xXx

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2019

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It is amazing to discover that David McGowen had managed to piece together the diabolical workings of the under currents which ripple throughout our societies today, that go back to the ancient practices mostly unspoken about in everyday life. David McGowen a true modern day HERO who was brave enough to dare to put into text the information contained within this book. These subject matters are highly controversial yet apparent to those willing to think the unthinkable. David McGowen I love you and hope that God has mercy upon you brave soul.
Everyone needs to read this book!

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This is a very good book. It doesn't surprise me that serial killers ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2016

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This is a very good book. It doesn't surprise me that serial killers are not what we have been lead to believe through hollywierd portrayal of them in movies. In fact it is a very cunning twist of perception on it's part. The dark dread creeping up inside you as you read through it is one of the things that keeps you hooked on it, and was all from real investigation into the events surrounding them which you do not hear in the newspapers. By now, if anyone believes that anything you are told in the popular media then God help you. Not to say that you should swallow whole even what is in this book, but a lot of it stands to critical thought, especially if one dares to consider the notion that we are not living in a very good place, controlled by not very nice 'people', that operate in the hidden, and very very effectively.

It is clear, concise and does not come across as suggestive or opinionated, leaving the reader to ruminate over what is presented. It paints a much more horrifying reality than the one guy that kills people because his dog told him to do it, and the logistics of this scenario.

It does let itself down in the end with anti-German lean, with the implication that the CIA got it's ideas from "nazi" Germany ( -not implying that what was said about Germany was true) with the post war extraction of scientists and prominent 'useful' people. This idea that there is no evil possible that does not in some way lead back to Germany (them being the only and ultimate evil in the universe) is a quite untrue, lowbrow and slightly disappointing coming from a book of this calibre, candour and depth. It does not take a stretch to see this institution as an evolution of itself, in the internal situation of controlling and exploiting the mass sleepers without some sort of historical buck passing from a very manufactured history.

If you don't want your mind pulled into the cold uncomfortable, nigh on truth, about serial killers, then leave this alone and go and immerse yourself inside a popular novel that reinforces your escapism. This is a book that reminds you that the good guys never win, are stuck with cleaning up the mess fumbling for a paycheck in the name of indoctrinated ideals, break even at the best (providing the good guys are NOT placed there for the facade), and the bad guys not only win: but really run the whole show, the inexorable 'kings of the hill' can and do whatever they want, how they want and get away with it every time, all the time, unchallenged, untouched and totally unknown.

This is a very uncomfortable read, even more so if the reader already has pre-constructed ideas about serial killers (such as myself), and pulls it into a very tangible and believable reality. Your lovely, friendly neighbours, may not be what they seem... Happy birthday, you are here in hell for life! Enjoy your barbecue and watch your children.

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echo

conspiracy theorists will like this

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2013

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I found the beginning chapters of this book horrifying and depressing in equal measure. Mcgowans contention that pedophile activity on global basis is both organised and covered up at the highest levels is probably something most of us prefer not to dwell on too closely. Mcgowans claims are compelling and backed up with fairly extensive evidence (Depending on your point of view). The addition of satanist activity to the mix adds yet another terryfying element. The following chapters deal with serial killers and Mcgowans theory that many of them may be 'programmed' by brainwashing and other sinister means. The beginning of the book for me remains the most convincing but the rest of the book offers a fascinating alternative view of the phenomonal rise of the serial killer. Nowhere is that rise greater then in the USA.

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A FASCINATING AND SCARY BOOK

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2012

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McGOWAN HAS WRITTEN A TRULY FASCINATING AND DISTURBING BOOK; AND WHAT MAKES IT SO COMPELLING IS THAT IT HAS THE RING OF TRUTH ABOUT IT. THE THOUGHT THAT WORLD GOVERNMENTS ARE USING THE 'SERIAL KILLER' PHENOMENON TO THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE IS NOT SO OUTLANDISH AS IT MIGHT SEEM. McGOWAN CONNECTS ALL THE DOTS FOR THE READER, AND IT IS HARD TO FIND FAULT WITH HIS ANALYSIS AND HIS CONCLUSIONS. IF YOU ARE A SCEPTIC, I WOULD ADVISE THAT YOU READ THIS BOOK WITH AN OPEN MIND BEFORE JUDGING IT. NONE OF US WANT TO BELIEVE THAT OUR 'RULERS' ARE NOT MUCH BETTER THAN THE PSYCHOPATHS LISTED IN THIS BOOK, BUT BY BURYING OUR HEADS IN THE SAND, AND TRYING TO CONVINCE OURSELVES THAT GOVERNMENTS WOULD NEVER DO SUCH TERRIBLE THIMGS TO THEIR 'OWN PEOPLE' WE ARE SIMPLY FOOLING OURSELVES. IT IS HIGH TIME WE TOOK OFF OUR ROSE TINTED GLASSES AND FACED THE TRUTH; AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF POWER, THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE COVERING UP FOR SADISTIC AND EVIL CRIMINALS. I DEFY ANYONE TO READ THIS BOOK (ESPECIALLY THE MARC DUTROUX CASE IN bELGIUM) AND STILL CLAIM THAT McGOWAN IS SIMPLY A CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORIST. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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Jack

Brilliant Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 4, 2019

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If you are familiar with the subject matter you cannot fail to enjoy this book. One of the best True Crime books I have read.

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