Dr. Peter Vronsky is an author, filmmaker, artist and historian. He has been shooting and producing investigative reports and network television news specials, music videos and documentaries since 1975. He has worked  extensively in Europe, the former Soviet Union, South Africa and in Canada and USA.  Vronsky is  the creator of a body of formal video art works exhibited internationally and a cited historian of the phenomenon of serial murder, of Lee Harvey Oswald’s journey to the USSR in 1959-1962, the Siege of Montsegur during the Albigensian Crusade in 1244, the disappearance of Ambrose Small in Toronto in 1919 and is an authority on the Battle of Ridgeway in 1866, Canada’s first modern battle.  Vronsky is the author of two books published by Penguin-Berkley on the history and psychopathology of serial homicide:  Serial Killers:  The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004) and Female Serial Killers:  How and Why Women Become Monsters (2007) .   

Peter Vronsky holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in the fields of  the history of espionage in international relations and criminal justice history.  His doctoral thesis on the security crisis in Upper Canada during the Civil War period and the 1866 Fenian Raids is scheduled to be published in 2011/12 by Penguin Canada – Allen Lane Books as  Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the Forgotten 1866 Battle that Made Canada.  He lectures in history of the Third Reich, the American Civil War, Espionage and International Relations in the 20th century at Ryerson University in Toronto.   Peter Vronsky lives in Toronto and Venice, Italy. [more]

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