Catch Me a Killer Quotes

“rather not give a serial killer a second chance in life, for he might be giving someone else a first chance of losing his life.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Teenagers who recognise these fantasies in themselves should urgently consult a trained therapist and candidly and courageously talk to them. A person can be helped before he acts out the fantasy; and a person cannot be arrested for having murderous fantasies. Once the murder has been committed, it is too late.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Children often give clues that they are disturbed in their play and in their art. Therapists should explore the sexual and aggressive fantasies of children and should not be so naïve as to think that children as young as five do not have the capacity to fantasise about raping and mutilating their mothers. They do, believe me.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Bad performance at school, excessive daydreaming, the absence of friends, the triad of bed-wetting, fire-setting and cruelty to animals, as well as signs of abuse and neglect and continuous masturbation during the latency phase should alert adults to the possibility that the child may be a potential serial killer.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“The best way of preventing a person from becoming a serial killer is for the trained professionals in the social services, and even for concerned members of the public, to learn to identify the little dreamers who flee into their fantasy worlds to escape abuse and to refer these children for therapy.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“In my opinion, it would take a very determined therapist twenty years or more of intense psychoanalytical therapy to completely rehabilitate a serial killer and to restore his disturbed object relations. This is impractical.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Most incarcerated serial killers have admitted that as soon as they are released they will murder again, and many have done so. It takes a person about twenty years to develop into a serial killer and he may be active for many years before he is arrested.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“He realises that he has a problem, he knows right from wrong, but the psychological gain and, of course, the sexual gratification are so great that he refuses to give it up and seek another, more humane, manner of addressing his pain.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“He rehearses these fantasies as a teenager and eventually acts them out, as one after the other innocent person falls victim, without the slightest regard for their pain or the agony of the families and loved ones they have left behind.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“It takes a person about twenty years to develop into a serial killer. The process commences during the first five years of his life, whereafter he nurtures the most horrendous sexual and aggressive fantasies in which other human beings are subjugated to mere objects.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“the person’s ego needs to feel threatened by some event which causes a psychological imbalance. The psychological gain he receives from the murder is the restoration of the mental homeostasis, and of course most of them also experience sexual gratification.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“this person must also have a weak ego, virtually no superego and a domineering id, which means that the fantasy will not be inhibited but will be acted out.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“to become a serial killer, a person must have fixated in one or more of the psychosexual developmental phases, which caused a fantasy to evolve in the subconscious.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Since Wilken was never able to master the trauma in his life, he is still caught up in the compulsion to repeat it,”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“The fact that Wilken was prepared to return to the decomposing bodies of some of his victims in order to commit necrophilia, indicates the extent to which he regarded them as objects for the gratification of his own needs and pleasures.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Wilken was ostracised by his peers who teased him about his adoptive status. He also had to fight for survival in the reformatory where he was sodomised. He had little chance to socialise and learn empathy for others.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“By sodomising the boys, Wilken fell into the typical pattern of passive-active role reversal by identifying with the aggressor and selecting a victim like himself. When he sodomised and strangled 12-year-old Henry Bakers he even told Henry that he was going to do to him what was done to himself when he was a child of Henry’s age.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“He unleashed his sexual frustrations on these women, but they also provided a means of venting his Oedipal anger at the mother figures for rejecting him, so he strangled the life out of them.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“The abandonment by his biological mother, his lost sister, the punishment he received from his adoptive mother and the fact that his two wives apparently refused him sex, correlated with Wilken’s first selection of victims, namely the prostitutes.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“He had two types of victim. The prostitutes resembled the women who had rejected him and he acted out his agony and anger in a symbolic manner on these victims. The boys represented himself and, like Simons, he acted out his suffering directly on these victims.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“sexual sadists prefer anal sex, since it causes pain to the victim as well as being humiliating. Wilken preferred anal sex with all his victims. The pain they showed when he penetrated them anally heated his sexual arousal and caused him to commence strangling them.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Stewart Wilken is an example of a serial killer who fixated during the oral phase. He was abandoned, and as a result deprived of being breastfed by his mother. His basic needs as an infant regarding hunger and security were grossly neglected. The oral fixation manifested already as a toddler when he bit anyone who angered him, including his adoptive mother. This is a example of oral sadism.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Another South African serial killer who fixated in the Oedipus phase was the Cape Town Prostitute Killer. He had, however, lost the battle for his mother’s affection and felt mentally castrated by her rejection and her preference for other men.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“At the age of nineteen, when his mother brought home the pin-up pictures, she inadvertently activated his seething fantasies. Mhlengwa felt the urge to have sex but lacked the social skills to form a relationship. He was also a very angry young man.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“He experienced a severe rejection when his sister left the family when he was ten years old. She had abandoned him and he was very angry with her. Mhlengwa chose victims who represented his sister and raped them to act out the sexual fantasies of the Oedipus phase and he killed them to act out the aggressive fantasies that resulted from his anger at being rejected.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“His fixation in the Oedipus phase also manifested in his selection of victims. They represented his sister. The female victims were mostly women in the prime of their lives, except for the little girl who happened to be present when Mhlengwa raped her mother. Only the last three victims were in their forties and fifties, indicating that subconsciously his anger had shifted from his sister to his mother.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“He did not perceive his father nor his brothers to be any competition regarding the attention he received from the two females in his life. Therefore, as an adult Mhlengwa did not consider any male as competition.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Mhlengwa Zikode fixated in the Oedipus phase. His father was paralysed and Mhlengwa won the favour of both his mother and his older and only sister, who was his primary caretaker. He had a symbiotic relationship with both these women and could never really succeed in differentiating his own personality from theirs.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Simons could not identify this ideal self-image with the dark side of his personality – the side which murdered. He attributed the identity of his original aggressor, namely his brother, to the murderous side of himself and said in his statement to the detectives that it was the spirit of his deceased brother who ordered him to murder the children.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story

“Simons selected a victim just like himself, namely a Coloured schoolboy between the ages of eight to fourteen. Symbolically he committed suicide when he killed that boy, for he was killing himself.”
― Micki Pistorius, Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler's true story