“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
“I stayed with him for about a month, hoboing our way east, stealing and burning everything we could. I taught him how to set fire to a church after we robbed it. We got very busy on that, robbing and burning a church regular every chance we got.”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“At that place I got to be an experienced wolf. I would start the morning with sodomy, work as hard at it as I could all day and sometimes half the night…I was so busy committing sodomy that I didn't have time left to serve Jesus as I had been taught to do in those reform schools.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“I made up my mind that I would rob, burn, destroy and kill everywhere I went and everybody I could as long as I lived.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“I first began to think that I was being unjustly imposed upon. Then I began to hate those who abused me. Then I began to think that I would have my revenge just as soon and as often as I could injure someone else. Anyone at all would do.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“Everybody thought it was all right to deceive me, lie to me and kick me around whenever they felt like it, and they felt like it pretty regular.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“Then I would take a rope and tie a rock on them and put them into my rowboat, row out into the main channel about a mile and drop 'em overboard.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“Serial killers do on a small scale what governments do on a large one. They are a product of the times and these are bloodthirsty times. Even psychopaths have emotions if you dig deep enough, but then again maybe they don’t.”— Richard Ramirez, youtube.com
“I choked her to death then cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms, cook and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body.”— Albert Fish, thoughtcatalog.com
“You don't have any control over it. You try and put it away, but that doesn't work. I mean, it's not accepted by society. But it's like an alcohol or a drug person. You know, they're going to blame it on the drugs or alcohol. They are going to say they couldn't control it.”— Dennis Rader, amazon.com
“You can't go back and change the past; it's over with. All we can do is try to make it better.”— Gary Ridgway, komonews.com
“If my father could kill people, then, I reasoned, anyone could be a killer.”— Jenn Carson, huffingtonpost.com
“The stories and legends that have filtered down about witches and werewolves and vampires may have been a way of explaining outrages so hideous that no one in the small and close-knit towns of Europe and early America could comprehend the perversities we now take for granted. Monsters had to be supe…”— John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker, amazon.com
“Look, of all the serial killer types, the ones I find most dangerous are the hyper-intelligent ones that get off more on the mind games than the killing. They're like vampires, ready to suck your soul dry and file your information away for a rainy day.”— Sharon Lee Watson, Dr. Tara Lewis, Aisha Tyler, imdb.com
“I appreciate the concern, but when your father kills 25 women before you're a teenager, painful memories don't need a trigger. They just are.”— Edward Allen Bernero, Ashley Seaver, Rachel Nichols, imdb.com
“[about a serial killer] He sure likes his blondes. Not a good date, though—too stabby.”— Simon Mirren, imdb.com
“Dr. Spencer Reid: Female serial killers are a fascinating field. We don't have much information on them, but what we do know involves throwing the rules completely out the window. Signature, for instance. They don't torture or take trophies. Derek Morgan: Because there's no sexual gratification when…”— Oanh Ly, imdb.com