“I just wanted the exaltation over the party. In other words, winning over death. They were dead and I was alive. That was the victory in my case.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“Sometimes, afterward, I visited there...to be near her...because I loved her and wanted her.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“I was really quite struck by her personality and her looks and there was just almost a reverence there….”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“There's somebody out there that is watching this and hasn't done that – hasn't killed people, and wants to, and rages inside and struggles with that feeling, or is so sure they have it under control. They need to talk to somebody about it. Trust somebody enough to sit down and talk about something t…”— Edmund Kemper, youtube.com
“I decided to mix the two and have a situation of rape and murder and no witnesses and no prosecution.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“At first I picked up girls just to talk to them, just to try to get acquainted with people my own age and try to strike up a friendship.”— Edmund Kemper, truecrime.net
“[Serial killer Herbert Mullin] had a habit of singing and bothering people when somebody tried to watch TV, so I threw water on him to shut him up. Then, when he was a good boy, I'd give him peanuts. Herbie liked peanuts. That was effective, because pretty soon he asked permission to sing. That's ca…”— Edmund Kemper, amazon.com
“The original purpose was gone...It wasn't serving any physical or real or emotional purpose. It was just a pure waste of time….Emotionally, I couldn't handle it much longer. Toward the end there, I started feeling the folly of the whole damn thing, and at the point of near exhaustion, near collapse,…”— Edmund Kemper, amazon.com
“Appx. 5:15 A.M. Saturday. No need for her to suffer any more at the hands of this horrible 'murderous Butcher'. It was quick—asleep—the way I wanted it. Not sloppy and incomplete, gents. Just a 'lack of time'. I got things to do!!!”— Edmund Kemper, amazon.com
“My mother was there. She was there to beat me, she was there to humiliate me, she was there to use me as an example of how inferior men are.”— Edmund Kemper, youtube.com
“I look at the wreckage behind me, the dead people caused by my self-indulgence in fantasy life and then my self-indulgence in not doing something about it—getting help, or taking action against myself, even.”— Edmund Kemper, youtube.com
“My mother and I started right in on horrendous battles, just horrible battles, violent and vicious. I've never been in such a vicious verbal battle with anyone. It would go to fists with a man, but this was my mother and I couldn't stand the thought of my mother and I doing these things. She insiste…”— Edmund Kemper, amazon.com
“I was paroled to my mother, OK? What these experts don’t notice in the picture—i haven’t seen it in writing anywhere, it could be somewhere, um, that when I was fourteen years old I ran away from my mother. They mention that, OK. But if you look at that in the overall picture, why did I run away? I…”— Edmund Kemper, youtube.com
“Hey, death row’s great—death row’s a fucking blast. I get cable t.v., I get phone access any time I want, I get to paint, I get all these privileges and nobody fucks with me. On the other hand, the general population [of the prison], that’s for fools and animals. It’s a jungle out there, so you’re a…”— John Wayne Gacy, murderpedia.org
“That one mother who goes on television all the time, who thinks I should be given 33 injections, I think she ought to take 33 Valiums and go lay down…. If her Marine son was so great, then what the hell did he run away from home all the time?”— John Wayne Gacy, chicago.cbslocal.com
“I’ve taken 3 1/2 hours of truth serum—sodium amytal—the maximum amount I could have. It shows I have no knowledge of the crime whatsoever.”— John Wayne Gacy, chicago.cbslocal.com
“When they paint the image that I was this monster who picked up these altar boys along the streets and swatted them like flies, I said, ‘This is ludicrous.”— John Wayne Gacy, chicago.cbslocal.com
“The idea that I'm a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them....Hell, if you could see my schedule, my work schedule, you knew damn well that I was never out there.”— John Wayne Gacy, youtube.com
“Your Honor, It is over now. This has never been a case of trying to get free. I didn’t ever want freedom. Frankly, I wanted death for myself. This was a case to tell the world that I did what I did, but not for reasons of hate. I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil or both. Now I believe I was s…”— Jeffrey Dahmer, livefromapt213.tumblr.com
“The killing was a means to an end. That was the least satisfactory part. I didn't enjoy doing that. That's why I tried to create living zombies with uric acid in the drill [to the head], but it never worked. No, the killing was not the objective. I just wanted to have the person under my complete co…”— Jeffrey Dahmer, imdb.com