Chapter 2 Whoever Fights Monsters... Summary and Analysis

Growing up in Chicago in the late 1940s, Ressler was fascinated and appalled by a killer he read about in the newspaper. Several young women had been killed and the killer, in some cases, had written on the wall in lipstick that he couldn't stop himself from murdering, pleading with the police to please catch him before he killed again. Later, a young girl only six years old was abducted and killed and her body parts were dumped all around the Chicago area. The young Ressler, fascinated by the murders, formed a detective agency with some of his friends in the neighborhood to try to stop the killer. Of course, he as only nine and the investigation didn't go anywhere, but it was the beginning of a lifelong career in law enforcement.

Ressler eventually went...