Peter Vronsky
Investigative Historian and Author @Penguin Random House
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WORK HISTORY
Investigative Historian and Author @Penguin Random House
Toronto, ON, CA
Author of five investigative history books, American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, (Penguin Random House, New York: February 2021.); Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present (Penguin - Random House, New York: August 2018); Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada (Penguin Books, Toronto: 2011.); Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters (Berkley Penguin Books, New York: 2007); Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monster (Berkley Penguin Books, New York: 2004).
EDUCATION
University of Toronto
PhD, History of Espionage in International Relations and Criminal Justice History
Humberside
High School
SKILLS
ABOUT PETER VRONSKY
Peter Vronsky is an investigative historian, author and a filmmaker. He holds a PhD in criminal justice history and espionage in international relations from the University of Toronto. He is an authority on the history of serial homicide and its investigation while his book based on his doctoral dissertation,\'Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada\'(2011) is considered as the definitive history of Canada\'s first modern battle.Vronsky has assisted law enforcement in New York and New Jersey in 20••••26 in 11 serial murder cold case closures perpetrated by serial killer Richard Cottingham from 1965 to 1980, including the oldest cold case closure in American history using direct perpetrator DNA (as opposed to familial DNA) in the 1968 murder of Diane Cusick in Valley Stream, Nassau County, New York, to which Cottingham pleaded guilty in December 2022.Vronsky is the author of a series of bestseller true crime histories: Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004); Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters (2007); Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers From the Stone Age to the Present (2018), a New York Times Editors\' Choice; and most recently American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years (2021), a history exploring the epidemic surge of serial killers in the second half of the 20th century. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, Czech, Turkish, Italian, Finnish and Japanese editions.Vronsky directed several feature films, including Bad Company [Fast Company](1978) and Mondo Moscow (1992) and is the creator of a substantial body of formal video and electronic art works and new media in the 1980s. In a thirty year freelance career he has worked in the motion picture and television industries as a producer and cinematographer in the field of documentary production and news broadcasting with CNN, CTV, CBC, RAI and other global television networks in North America and overseas and in online media and video streaming.Vronsky lectured in the Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) History Department on the history of international relations, terrorism, espionage, American Civil War, Third Reich.
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