The Deadly Dozen Quotes

“It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done.” Jeffrey Dahmer ”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Yet the most terrifying thing about serial killers is that they are not shambling, jabbering ogres, but rational and calculating, impossible to tell from the general populace until it’s too late. ”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of New York City and from the ants that dwell in those cracks and feed on the dried blood of the dead…” David Berkowitz a.k.a. Son of Sam”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“His final words were reported to be, “Kiss my ass.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“them.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“books”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“detectives then returned to his playmate and asked him for a description of the “boogeyman” who had taken Billy. The boy said he was a thin old man with gray hair and a gray mustache.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of NYC,” Berkowitz wrote, “and from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed on the dried blood of the dead that has settled into the cracks.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“In May 1990, Dahmer moved out of his grandmother's house for the final time and took up residence at the address that would later became infamous: Apartment 213, 924 North 25th Street, Milwaukee. Now”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Viewmont High School also”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“On November 5, 2003, Gary Ridgeway, then aged 54, admitted to the murders of 48 women, most of whom were killed between 1982 and 1984. The confession was part of a plea bargain in terms of which Ridgeway would avoid the death penalty and accept 48 life sentences without the possibility of parole. ”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“There was a genuine belief among law officers that the Green River Killer would never be caught. Nine years of investigative work and $15 million later, they were no closer to catching the elusive killer.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Ted Bundy, arguably America’s most notorious serial killer, then on death row in Florida, offered to assist Bob Keppel in catching the killer.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“On November 13, the badly decomposed remains of Mary Meehan and her unborn baby were found buried beneath an empty lot, south of Sea-Tac. Meehan was the only victim to be fully buried by the killer.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Barbara Kubik-Pattern, one of the task force volunteers and a self-styled psychic, informed investigators that she’d had a vision of where a woman’s body could be found, close to Interstate 90. Frustrated that the police wouldn’t take her tip-off seriously, Kubik-Pattern conducted her own search and eventually found the body.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“The search for the Green River Killer had already escalated into the biggest and most expensive manhunt in US history.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“… she thinks, ‘Oh, this guy cares’... which I didn't. I just want to get her in the vehicle and eventually kill her.” - Gary Ridgeway”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“In recounting his first crime, the serial killer, Ted Bundy, recalled that he felt disgusted with what he had done. Ramirez may have experienced similar emotional turmoil – at first. Then he likely revisited the crime in his mind, reliving the rape and murder over and over again.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Dying doesn't scare me, I'll be in hell. With Satan." – Richard Ramirez”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“The code word for me will be....Bind them, torture them, kill them, B.T.K.” – Dennis Rader”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“The mutilation of the next victim was even more severe. In fact, the corpse was dismembered and scattered across two counties: the head found in Long Beach; the torso, right leg and both arms in San Pedro; the left leg in Sunset Beach. There were rope marks on the wrists and evidence that the corpse had been refrigerated prior to disposal. ”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“The execution did not go as smoothly as expected due to clogging of the IV tube administering the lethal chemicals into Gacy's arm. After a delay of 18 minutes, Gacy was pronounced dead at 12:58 a.m. on May 10, 1994.   His final words were reported to be, “Kiss my ass.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“began making his confession in the early hours of December 22, 1978, claiming that, since 1972, he had killed approximately 25 to 30 young men. He said that he either forced the victims into his car,”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Donnelly was abducted at gunpoint on December 30, 1977. He was driven to Gacy’s home where he was raped, tortured and sodomized with various objects. His head was held under water in the bathtub until he passed out. Then Gacy revived him, before holding him under water again.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Gacy would later state that he experienced an orgasm while stabbing McCoy. “That's when I realized that death was the ultimate thrill,” he added.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“He was also active in his local community, a tireless worker for the Democratic Party and, for three consecutive years, director of Chicago's annual Polish Constitution Day Parade. Through this latter activity, he was introduced to (and photographed with) First Lady Rosalynn Carter on May 6, 1978. Mrs Carter signed the photo: “To John Gacy. Best wishes. Rosalynn Carter.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“As his appointment with death grew closer, Fish told reporters that he was looking forward to his execution. “It will be the only thrill I have not tried,” he is reported to have said.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Wertheim later wrote that Fish was “the most polymorphous pervert I had ever known. Someone who practiced every perversion and deviation known to man, from sodomy to sadism, eating excrement and self mutilation.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“Wisconsin has no death penalty statute on its books, so that was never an option. Instead, Dahmer received 15 life terms, amounting to a total of 957 years in prison. ”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

“He had also by this time begun to indulge in cannibalism, believing that his victims would live on inside him if he consumed their flesh.”
― Robert Keller, The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers