"This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.

Meet handsome twenty-three years old Stephen Dee Richards (1856-1879), also known as the Nebraska Butcher. Murderer of nine people, including two young girls and a two years old baby boy, all brutally killed with an axe along with their mother. This chilling little book, records the interview, confession, life, execution, phrenological examination and even a farewell letter of a real one hundred-sixty years old serial killer. A dark time travel to the past.