“To this day I don't know what started it [the murders]. The person to blame is sitting right across from you. It's the only person. Not parents, not society, not pornography. I mean, those are just excuses.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“The first killing was not planned. I had had fantasies about picking up a hitchhiker and taking him back to the house and having complete control and dominance over him.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“It's not like TV...it takes over three minutes and you have to have a lot of strength.”— Richard Speck, content.time.com
“I grabbed him by the arm and told him I was going to kill him. I stayed with the boy about three hours. During that time, I committed sodomy on the boy six times, and then I killed him by beating his brains out with a rock... I had stuffed down his throat several sheets of paper out of a magazine. I…”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“I made a full confession of this murder of McMahon. You sent a number of witnesses from Salem to identify me, which they done. I do not change my former confession in any way. I committed that murder. I alone am guilty. I not only committed that murder but 21 besides and I assure you here and now th…”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“A little nigger boy about 11 or 12 years old came bumming around….I left him there, but first I committed sodomy on him and then I killed him….His brains were coming out of his ears when I left him and he will never be any deader.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“To some of average intelligence, killing six at once seems an almost impossible feat. It was very much easier for me to kill those six niggers than it was for me to kill only one of the young boys I killed later and some of them were only 11 or 12 years old.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“We would wine and dine and when they were drunk enough they would go to bed. When they were asleep I would get my .45 Colt automatic, this I stole from Mr. Taft's home, and blow their brains out.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“His brains were coming out of his ears when I left him. I am not sorry. My conscious [sic] doesn't bother me. I sleep sound and have sweet dreams.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform other people who try to reform me. and I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill ’em.”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“…hurry up and bring on your electric chair I want to leave here and take a nose-dive into the next world just to see if that one is as lousy as is this ball of mud and meanness. I am sorry for only two things. These two things are I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life-time an…”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings. I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies Larcenys, [sic] arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. for all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not…”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“When I was 11, I had an episode in my life. I saw my cousin shoot his wife. It wasn’t traumatic…but the shock value. I went back into the apartment to collect some things with my dad, because my cousin was in jail. The bed was all bloody. It was there where she had landed after the bullet. She got a…”— Richard Ramirez, evilminds.tumblr.com
“I would do someone in and then take a camera and set the timer so I could sit them up next to me and take our pictures together.”— Richard Ramirez, apnews.com
“One time I told this lady to give me all her money. She said no. So I cut her and pulled her eyes out.”— Richard Ramirez, apnews.com
“I love all that blood. I love to kill people. I love watching them die.”— Richard Ramirez, apnews.com
“I would shoot them in the head and they would wiggle and squirm all over the place and then just stop; or cut them with a knife and watch their face turn real white.”— Richard Ramirez, apnews.com
“We have had a fight I killed Yellow Hand A Cheyenne Chief. in a single handed fight You will no doupt [sic] hear of it through the papers…I fought single-handed in sight of our command and the cheers that went up when he fell was deafening.”— Buffalo Bill Cody, codyarchive.org
“In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest—without asking to be paid.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com