#serial

Brooke thought no one could see her. I thought she was beautiful. ↗

— Dan Wells

#beauty

She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying. ↗

— Barry Lyga

#madness #scream #serial-killers #beauty

We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow. ↗

— Ted Bundy

#serial-killers #ted-bundy #death

And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dreams

Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It's not real. It's just a dream. -Ted Bundy ↗

— Ted Bundy

#ted-bundy #dreams

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer. ↗

— James Ellroy

#books #cops #every #exception #killer

Rory: "People are being serious." Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course people are being serious." Rory: "Yeah, but what are the chances?" Jazza: "I bet all of the victims thought that." Rory: "But still, what are the chances?" Jazza: "Well, I imagine they are several million to one." Jerome: "Not that high. You're only dealing with a small part of London. And while there might be a million or more people in that area, the Ripper is probably focusing on women, because all of the original victims were women. So halve that--" Jazza: "You really need another hobby. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#jazza #jerome #odds #rory #serial-killer

You must have been working very hard here, with so few distractions.” Mary’s eyes darkened and she looked away. “Not quite as much as I hoped for. At times the loneliness and the unanswered questions can get overwhelming, like very loud voices echoing inside my head, just asking ‘why’ ‘who’ and making me think about my wasted life. ↗

— Olga Núñez Miret

#fbi #police-procedural #psychiatry #rape #serial-killer

You take the individual we are talking about and then you subject him to stress. Stress happens to come randomly, but its effect on the personality is not random; it's specific. That results in a certain amount of chaos, confusion, and frustration. That person begins to seek out a target for his frustrations. The continued nature of this stress this person was under -- the nature of the flaw or weakness in his personality, together with other elements in the environment that offer him a logical target for his frustrations or escapes from reality -- yields the situation we're discussing. There is no trigger, it is truly more sophisticated than that. ↗

— Ted Bundy

#stress #ted-bundy #nature

Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender. ↗

— Chelsea Cain

#serial-killers #suspense #journalist