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 PATHFINDERS
Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA 
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media on a topic
they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they begin their research 
project.

SK PROFILING

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search, such as, serial killers, criminals, murder, crime, or forensics.

Some titles we have are:

364.15
DOL		 Dolan, Robert W.  Serial Murder.   Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 1997.
364.15
FLO		 Flowers, R. Barri.  Murders in the United States; Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.
364.15
SER
 		 Serial Killers.  San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 2000.
364.152
SCH		 Schechter, Harold.  The Serial Killer Files.  New York: Random House, 2003.
REF
360.03
CRI		 Crimes and Punishment: The Illustrated Crime Encyclopedia.  (28 vols.) Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish, 1994.
REF
364.15
ENC		 Encyclopedia of Murder & Violent Crime.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publications, 2003.

SELECTED WEB SITES

Court TV's Crime Library
 http://www.crimelibrary.com/serialkillers.htm
 Information on serial killers provided by the Courtroom Television Network.

Murder in the UK
http://www.murderuk.com/serial_killers.html
Documents the crimes of murder & manslaughter in the UK.

Serial Killers
 http://geauxlouisiana.com/SerialKillers.html
Information on Derrick Todd Lee and links to Louisiana's recent serial killers, and general serial killer information.

Serial Killers
 http://www.macalester.edu/psychology/whathap/UBNRP/serialkillers/homepage.html
Information on the mind of a serial killer, genetic & environmental factors & case studies.

ONLINE DATABASES

InfoTrac® PowerSearch
     Contains databases of magazine articles, biographical resources, literature, health and business references. Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Gale Biography In Context.

eLibrary  Currently unavailable
     Full text dataabase of magazine and newspaper articles, TV and radio transcripts, pictures and maps. Find full text, up-to-date, published articles.

ProQuest (Massachusetts Newsstand)
     Newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980-current, Boston Herald (1991-current), and several other Massachusetts newspapers.


CITING SOURCES