Who wrote the biography of the convicted murderer who was born on February 21, 1961?
Christian Gerhartsreiter Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (born February 21, 1961) is a convicted murderer and impostor born in Germany who is currently serving a prison sentence in the United States. In his late teens, Gerhartsreiter moved to the US where he lived under a succession of aliases while variously claiming to be an actor, director, art collector, a physicist, a ship's captain, a negotiator of international debt agreements, and an English aristocrat.
Peter Manuel Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (13 March 1927 – 11 July 1958) was an American-Scottish serial killer who was convicted of murdering a total of seven people across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and his arrest in January 1958, and is believed to have murdered two more, nine in all. Prior to his arrest, the media nicknamed the unidentified killer "the Beast of Birkenshaw". Manuel was hanged at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison; he was one of the last prisoners to die on the Barlinnie gallows.