William “Wild Bill” Cody Neal preyed upon women. With his good looks and seductive smile, it isn’t hard to imagine how these vunerable young women were sucked into his web of deceit.
It was just a game to him. Seduce them, promise them his love, initiate the physical and verbal abuse, and then drain them of every penny they had.
Eventually even that wouldn’t be enough; murder, for Neal, was the next logical step.
Steve Jackson relates the little-known story of this modern day, albeit rough-around-the-edges, Cassanova in his book Love Me To Death.
Although it may be one more story of a wolf in sheep’s clothing, it is a fascinating, and at times infurating, tale of a man who aimed to, and self-proclaimed to be, “better than Teddy Bundy.”
