Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer

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"I was a greedy ravenous individual determined to rise from the bottom to the top . . . It wasnt me!"--Jack Unterwegers final words to his jury Serial killers rarely travel internationally. So in the early 1990s when detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department began to find bodies of women strangled with their own bras it didnt occur to them at first to make a connection with the bodies being uncovered in the woods outside of Vienna Austria. The LAPD waited for the killer to strike again. Meanwhile in Austria the police followed what few clues they had. The case intrigued many reporters but few as keenly as Jack Unterweger a local celebrity. He cut a striking figure this little man in expensive white suits. His expertise on Viennas criminal underworld was hard-earned. He had been sentenced to life in jail as a young man. But while incarcerated he began to write--and his work earned him the glowing attention of the literary elite. The intelligentsia lobbied for his release and by 1990 Jack was free again. He continued writing nurturing his career as a journalist. But though he now traveled in the highest circles he had a secret life. He was killing again and in the greatest of ironies reporting on the very crimes he had committed. With unprecedented access to Jacks diaries and letters John Leake peels back the layers of deception to reveal the life and crimes of Jack Unterweger and in unnerving detail exposes the thrilling twists--both in the United States and Europe--that led to Jacks capture and Austrias "trial of the century."