Information gathered from "The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers". Written by Harold Schechter and David Everitt

"I didn't want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them." - David Berkowitz

"I am deeply hurt by your calling me a women hater. I am not. But I am a monster. I am the 'son of Sam.' I am a little brat." -David Berkowitz


"Wow what a trip!" - Manson "family" members Susan Atkins, after licking Sharon Tate's blood from her hands.

"Look down on me, you will see a fool. Look up at me, you will see your lord. Look straight at me, you will see yourself. - Charles Manson


Anonymous serial killer, describing his first experience with a body disposal

"I got a dead body on my hands. People saw me come in here. How am I going to pack this one out? Am I gonna put it in a double bag or a sheet and carry it out there? I figured the smaller the better. I chopped the body up, stuffed some in the refrigerator, dumped the guts in a vacant lot, throwing pieces here and there, whatever came out of the bag first. I was scared." _______________________________________________________

"The most important radical aim is to make her suffer, since there is no greater power over another person than that of inflicting pain on her." - A serial killer, explaining his motives


"And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of ther daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them." -Jeremiah, 19:9 (Albert Fishs favorite passage of Scripture) _____________________________________

"These X rays are unique in the history of medical science." -Dr. Frederic Wertham, commenting on the X rays of Albert Fish's pelvic region

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"As a result of our psychiatric examination, we are of the opinion that this man at the present time is not insane." -From a 1930 Bellevue Hospital report on Albert Fish, who two yers earlier had abducted, dismembered, and cannibalized a twelve-year old girl.


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