Profile of a Mass Killer Wade Frankum at Strathfield Plaza by Dr Rod Milton First Australian Edition Blackstone Press 1994. A fine copy, from the collection of True Crime writer Wilfred Gregg.

In the aftermath of the 1991 Strathfield Plaza massacre, psychiatrist Dr. Rod Milton dissects the psyche of Wade Frankum, a seemingly ordinary 33-year-old who unleashed horror in a Sydney shopping center, killing seven strangers before turning the gun on himself. Through meticulous interviews with family, friends, and associates, Milton charts Frankum's isolated upbringing, fractured relationships, and immersion in violent media—from well-thumbed copies of American Psycho to obsessive drawings of weaponry. The 1994 report, blending clinical analysis with raw annexures of personal artifacts, probes how repressed vulnerabilities erupted into indiscriminate slaughter, offering a chilling blueprint of latent rage in modern alienation.

Profile of a Mass Killer grips collectors as a stark rarity in forensic psychology literature, its basis in the coronial inquiry elevating it beyond mere true crime into a pivotal artifact of 1990s Australian tragedy. Readers confront its unflinching dissection of ordinary monstrosity, akin to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood or Gavin Weightman's societal probes. Its cultural gravity lies in illuminating media's role in mass violence pre-Port Arthur reforms, compelling criminology enthusiasts. Collectors seek its documentary authenticity, while readers grapple with the intimate horrors and preventive insights, marking it an essential, haunting read for scholars of deviance and human fragility.