Christopher Wilder and the Twenty-One Year Reign of the Snapshot Killer In the spring of 1984, Christopher Bernard Wilder drove eight thousand miles across the United States in six weeks, abducting and murdering at least eight women before dying in a confrontation with New Hampshire State Police. Known as the Beauty Queen Killer and the Snapshot Killer, Wilder had spent twenty-one years moving between Australia and Florida, exploiting the gap between his polished social mask — millionaire real estate developer, professional racing driver, amateur photographer — and the sadistic predator concealed beneath it. At every turn, the criminal justice systems of two countries had been given the evidence they needed to stop him and had chosen, through institutional failure, judicial leniency, and the catastrophic absence of international intelligence sharing, to let him go. The Snapshot Killer reconstructs Wilder's full criminal career from its earliest documented offence in a Sydney quarry in 1963 to the unsolved cold cases that still shadow his name today, including the 1965 Wanda Beach murders for which he remains the prime suspect. Drawing on court records, psychiatric evaluations, survivor testimony, and the latest forensic developments, this is a forensic and moral reckoning with one of the twentieth century's most elusive serial predators — and with the systems that made him possible.