Serial Killers Quotes

“Few would disagree that Herbert Mullin, who thought he was saving California from the great earthquake by killing people, and Ed Gein, who was making chairs out of human skin, were entirely insane when they committed their acts. The question becomes more difficult with somebody like law student Ted Bundy, who killed twenty women while at the same time working as a suicide prevention counselor, or John Wayne Gacy, who escorted the first lady and then went home to sleep of thirty-three trussed-up corpses under his house. On one hand their crimes seem "insane," yet on the other hand, Bundy and Gacy knew exactly what they were doing. How insane were they?”
― Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

“Policemen would tell you that most murderers, when they killed, did not know that they were going to kill. They killed in the heat of an argument, in a jealous rage, or sometimes accidentally while committing another crime. And cops would tell you that if you were going to be murdered, it was statistically likely that your killer was somebody you already knew and knew well.”
― Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

“there is no help, no cure, except death, or being caught and put away. it a terrible nightmare but, you see i dont lose any sleep over it. - the BTK killer”
― Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

“Psychopaths also show abnormal balances of chemicals currently linked to depression and compulsive behavior: monoamine oxidase (MAO) and serotonin.”
― Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

“Whether there are any links between the nature of the serial murders and the collapse of the two regimes is an open question at this time.”
― Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

“When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. —MARK TWAIN”
― Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters