“#5 You guess motive and victim. #6 You found one Shirley Vain lying belly down on a unmade bed in northeast bedroom-hand tied behind back with black tape and cord. Feet & ankles with black tape &legs. Ankles tied to west head of the bed with small off white cord, wrap around legs, hands, arm, finall…”— Dennis Rader, splashmans.wikispaces.com
“I find the newspaper not wirting about the poem on Vain unamusing. A little paragraph would have enought. I knom it not the news media fault. The Police Cheif he keep things quiet, and doesn't let the pubbic know there a psycho running around lose strangling mostly women, there 7 in the ground; who…”— Dennis Rader, splashmans.wikispaces.com
“What is this taht I can see Cold icy hands taking hold of me for Death has come, you all can see. Hell has open it,s gate to trick me. Oh! Death, Oh! Death, can't you spare me, over for another year! I'll stuff your jaws till you can't talk I'll blind your leg's till you can't walk I'll tie your han…”— Dennis Rader, foxnews.com
“Those three dudes you have in custody are just talking to get publicity. They know nothing at all. I did it by myself and with no oneshelp.…I’m sorry this happen to the society...It hard to control myself. You probably call me ‘psychotic with sexual perversion hang-up’. Where this monster enter my b…”— Dennis Rader, docs.google.com
“The head trip fantasies were a bit like a trophy. You know, the head is where everything is at, the brain, eyes, mouth. That's the person. I remember being told as a kid, you cut off the head and the body dies. The body is nothing after the head is cut off ... well, that's not quite true, there's a…”— Edmund Kemper, amazon.com
“I killed my mother and her friend. And I killed those college girls. I killed six of them and I can show you where I hid the pieces of their bodies.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“I came up behind her and crooked my arm around her neck, like this. I squeezed and just lifted her off the floor. She just hung there and, for a moment, I didn't realize she was dead….I had broken her neck and her head was just wobbling around with the bones of her neck disconnected in the skin sack…”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“Maybe they can study me and find out what makes people like me do the things they do.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“Oh, what is it like to have sex with a dead body?...What does it feel like to sit on your living room couch and look over and see two decapitated girls' heads on the arm of the couch? The first time, it makes you sick to your stomach.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“One side of me says, 'Wow, what an attractive chick. I'd like to talk to her, date her.' The other side of me says, ‘I wonder how her head would look on a stick?’”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“I couldn't please her….It was like being in jail….I became a walking time bomb and I finally blew ...”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“I figured that if I killed him [Herbert Mullin] and then they sent me to the gas chamber, it would be a good solution to the problem. I know I'd never get a chance to, though, and I don't have any intention of killing him or anyone else....He was just a cold-blooded killer, running over a three-week…”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“I may not be so much to look at myself, but I have always gone after pretty girls.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“My mother and I had had a real tiff. I was pissed. I told her I was going to a movie and I jumped up and went straight to the campus because it was still early. I said, the first girl that's halfway decent that I pick up, I'm gonna blow her brains out.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“They were like spirit wives….I still had their spirits. I still have them.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“When they were being killed, there wasn't anything going on in my mind except that they were going to be mine….That was the only way they could be mine.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“Alive, they were distant, not sharing with me. I was trying to establish a relationship and there was no relationship there...”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“I remember it was very exciting.….there was actually a sexual thrill.…It was kind of an exalted triumphant type thing, like taking the head of a deer or an elk or something would be to a hunter….I was the hunter and they were the victims.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“I suppose as I was standing there looking, I was doing one of those triumphant things, too, admiring my work and admiring her beauty, and I might say admiring my catch like a fisherman.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net