Lee Mellor, Ph.D. (born August 4, 1982 in

Chester Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

) is an Anglo-Canadian

author An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states: "''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...

scholar A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researche ...

criminologist Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and so ...

and

alternative country Alternative country, or alternative country rock (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, Americana, or y'allternative), is a loosely defined subgenre of country music and/or country rock that includes acts that differ significantly in style ...

musician distinguished by his intricate lyrics and growly vocal stylings.

Education

Mellor attended Bowmanville High School and then earned a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

degree in history and

Doctorate of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

in the interdisciplinary study of homicide and sex crime from

Concordia University Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...

, in 2009 and 2019, respectively.

Music

As a musician, Mellor has been spotlighted and interviewed on

CBC Radio CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which (regardless of language) are outlined below ...

, and in 2007 was voted among the top 10 singer-songwriters in Montreal. By the 2008 poll he had risen to No. 3 singer-songwriter in the city, behind

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

and

Rufus Wainwright Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and composer. He has recorded 10 studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written two classical operas and set ...

. Mellor's debut album ''

Ghost Town Heart ''Ghost Town Heart'' is the debut album of Canadian alt-country/folk singer Lee Mellor, produced by Paul Johnston and Lee Mellor. It was officially released in Toronto on August 18, 2007, and on September 7 in Montreal. The album has been praised ...

'' was released independently on August 18, 2007. He is known for coining the term "citygrass" to describe Montreal's emerging alternative country scene. In 2010, while working on his second album, Mellor also produced and played on Montreal singer-songwriter Roses's self-titled debut EP. A music video for "Suzy Blue Eyes" from his second album ''

Lose Lose may refer to: * ''Lose'' (Cymbals Eat Guitars album), the third studio album by American indie rock band Cymbals Eat Guitars * "Lose" (song), by KSI and Lil Wayne, 2021 *"Lose", a song by Travis Scott from his 2016 album ''Birds in the Trap ...

'' was officially released on YouTube in early 2011. ''Lose'', described by Mellor as an album he made "for himself," followed shortly after on April 30, 2011. Mellor also produced Kristen Bussandri's "Diamonds to Dust" EP, released July 2011.

Criminology

Mellor's first book, '' Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder'', was released on March 3, 2012, by

Dundurn Press Dundurn Press is one of the largest Canadian-owned book publishing companies of adult and children's fiction and non-fiction. The company publishes Canadian literature, history, biography, politics and arts. Dundurn has about 2500 books in print, ...

. The true crime work documents and analyzes the phenomenon of serial homicide in Canada, providing over 60 cases as examples. He researched 75 serial homicides but did not include them all because of limited space in the book. A second volume on Canadian multicide, ''Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing'', was released on March 9, 2013. In academia, Mellor co-edited the textbook ''Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook'' (2016) with

Joan Swart Joan Swart (born September 28, 1965) is a South African psychologist, author, consultant and researcher. Dr. Swart has completed a Masters in Forensic Psychology at the HLC-accredited Walden University and a doctorate at the BPPE-approved Ei ...

for which he also penned the Introduction along with chapters on homicidal

paraphilia Paraphilia (previously known as sexual perversion and sexual deviation) is the experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals. It has also been defined as sexual interest in anything ot ...

necrophilia Necrophilia, also known as necrophilism, necrolagnia, necrocoitus, necrochlesis, and thanatophilia, is sexual attraction towards or a sexual act involving Cadaver, corpses. It is classified as a paraphilia by the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

sexual sadism Sexual sadism disorder is the condition of experiencing sexual arousal in response to the extreme pain, suffering or humiliation of others. Several other terms have been used to describe the condition, and the condition may overlap with other c ...

, and

psychopathy Psychopathy, sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy, is characterized by persistent Anti-social behaviour, antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and Boldness, bold, Disinhibition, disinhibited, and Egotism, egotistical B ...

. In 2017, Mellor co-authored '' The Crime Book'' volume with American crime writers Shanna Hogan, Rebecca Morris,

Cathy Scott Cathleen "Cathy" Scott (born c. 1950) is a ''Los Angeles Times'' bestselling American true crime writer and investigative journalist who penned the biographies and true crime books ''The Killing of Tupac Shakur'' and ''The Murder of Biggie Small ...

, and British author Michael Kerrigan, with a foreword for the U.S. edition by Scott and the U.K. edition by author Peter James. It was released in April 2017 in the

U.K. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

and May 2017 in the

U.S. The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

Dorling Kindersley Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of German media co ...

(

Penguin Random House Penguin Random House LLC is an Anglo-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, from the merger of Penguin Group and Random House. On April 2, 2020, Bertels ...

). He is also the primary editor of ''Understanding Necrophilia: A Global Multidisciplinary Approach'' (2017) with

Anil Aggrawal Anil Aggrawal is a professor of forensic medicine at the Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India. He is known chiefly for his online journal, ''Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology''. He joined Maulana Aza ...

and Eric W. Hickey. His chapters "Wider Shades of Pale" and "Mincing Words" examine flaws in the current definition of necrophilia and argue for an expansion of the concept to include acts of sexually motivated post-mortem mutilation, posing, and "trophy-taking", as well as certain types of cannibalism and vampirism.''Understanding Necrophilia: A Global Multidisciplinary Approach'' In "Necrophilia-Spectrum Behavior and the Thematic-Derivative Model of Sexual Progression", Mellor offers a model which charts both normophilic and paraphilic sexual interests, using the case of

Armin Meiwes Armin Meiwes (; born 1 December 1961) is a German former computer repair technician who received international attention for murdering and eating a voluntary victim in 2001, whom he had found via the Internet. After Meiwes and the victim jointly ...

as an example. His "Five Allures of Necrophilia" proposes that there are five basic appeals of necrophilia: passivity/inertia, corporeal/sensory, reminiscent/identity, ritual/iconographic, and spiritual/magical. Mellor was editor-in-chief of the e-magazine ''Serial Killer Quarterly'' to which he regularly contributed articles, along with fellow true crime writers

Harold Schechter Harold Schechter (born June 28, 1948) is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism ...

Peter Vronsky Peter Vronsky is a Canadian author, filmmaker and investigative historian. He holds a PhD in criminal justice history and espionage in international relations from the University of Toronto. He is the author of the bestseller true crime histori ...

Katherine Ramsland Katherine Ramsland (born January 2, 1953) is an American non-fiction author and professor of forensic psychology. Ramsland has written 60 books and more than 1,000 articles, mostly in the genres of crime, forensic science, and the supernatural ...

, Michael Newton,

Burl Barer Burl Barer (born 1947 in Walla Walla, Washington) is an American author, literary historian and radio host. He is best known for his writings about the character Simon Templar. Career Fiction ''The Saint'' ''The Saint: A Complete History in ...

Carol Anne Davis Carol Anne Davis (born 1961 in Dundee, Scotland), is a Scottish crime novelist and a writer on crimes, especially those committed by children or young people. Biography Davis left school at 15, and later graduated from the University of Dundee ...

, and Robert Hoshowsky. In October 2019 Mellor began a six-part lecture series 'Murder in VR' on the topic of homicide in

virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), educ ...

. The series was hosted on the Sansar social VR platform.

Discography

* ''

'' (2007) * ''

'' (2011)

Books

* Mellor, L. 2012. '' Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder''. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Dundurn. * Mellor, L. 2013. ''Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing''. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Dundurn. * Swart, J., & Mellor, L. 2016. ''Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook''. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. * Mellor, L., Aggrawal, A., & Hickey, E.W. 2017. ''Understanding Necrophilia: A Global Multidisciplinary Approach''. San Diego, California: Cognella. * Mellor, L., Hogan, S., Kerrigan, M., Morris, R., & Scott, C. 2017. '' The Crime Book''.

London, England London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major s ...

. * Mellor, L. 2020. '' Behind the Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies''.

. * Mellor, L. 2021. '' Conspiracies Uncovered: Cover-Ups, Hoaxes, and Secret Societies''.

Articles & Chapters

* Mellor, L. 2016. Original Gangsta: Self-Conceptualization and Criminogenic Authenticity in Hip Hop Music ''The Criminal Humanities: An Introduction'' Eds.

Michael Andrew Arntfield Michael Andrew Arntfield is a Canadian academic, author, criminologist, true crime broadcaster and podcaster, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, and a Fulbright scholar. He is also a workplace violence harassment consultant, threat ...

Marcel Danesi Marcel Danesi (born 1946) is Professor of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is known for his work in language, communications and semiotics and is Director of the program in semiotics and communication theory. H ...

. New York: Peter Lang. * Mellor, L, Venkatesh, V, Wallin, J, & Thomas, T. 2016. Killing for Slender Man: The Emergence of an Electronic Gospel in ''The Criminal Humanities: An Introduction'' Eds.

. New York: Peter Lang. * Mellor, L. 2016. Introduction in ''Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook'' Eds. Lee Mellor &

. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. * Mellor, L. 2016. An Introduction to Sexual Homicides in ''Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook'' Eds. Lee Mellor &

. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. * Mellor, L. 2016. Necrophilic Homicide Offenders in ''Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook'' Eds. Lee Mellor &

. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. * Mellor, L. 2016. Sexually Sadistic Homicide Offenders in ''Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook'' Eds. Lee Mellor &

. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. * Mellor, L., Ramsland, K., & Funicelli, M. 2016. Psychopathic Homicide Offenders in ''Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook'' Eds. Lee Mellor &

. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. * Mellor, L. 2017. Wider Shades of Pale: Expanding the Necrophilic Behavioral Spectrum in ''Understanding Necrophilia: A Global Multidisciplinary Approach'' Eds. Lee Mellor,

, & Eric W. Hickey. San Diego, California: Cognella. * Mellor, L. 2017. Mincing Words: Refining the Language and Interpretation of Mutilation in ''Understanding Necrophilia: A Global Multidisciplinary Approach'' Eds. Lee Mellor,

, & Eric W. Hickey. San Diego, California: Cognella. * Mellor, L. 2017. Necrophilia-Spectrum Behavior and the Thematic-Derivative Model of Sexual Progression in ''Understanding Necrophilia: A Global Multidisciplinary Approach'' Eds. Lee Mellor,

, & Eric W. Hickey. San Diego, California: Cognella. * Mellor, L. 2017. The Five Allures of Necrophilia in ''Understanding Necrophilia: A Global Multidisciplinary Approach'' Eds. Lee Mellor,

, & Eric W. Hickey. San Diego, California: Cognella.

References

External links

Publisher's bio page for Lee Mellor
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mellor, Lee 1982 births Living people Canadian country singer-songwriters Canadian male singer-songwriters Male non-fiction writers Musicians from Montreal Canadian non-fiction writers People from Chester Writers from Montreal Concordia University alumni 21st-century Canadian male singers