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Serial Killer Quotes

Last updated: September 23, 2024

124 Serial Killer Quotes organized by Most Popular

“And later my macabre joy sours and I’m weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing ‘I just want to be loved,’ cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer— all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho(Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: misfit
“Later, predictably, she's tied to the floor, naked, on her back, both feet, both hands, tied to makeshift posts that are connected to boards which are weighted down with metal. The hands are shot full of nails and her legs are spread as wide as possible. A pillow props her ass up and cheese, Brie, has been smeared across her open cunt, some of it even pushed up into the vaginal cavity. She's barely gained consciousness and when she sees me, standing over her, naked, I can imagine that my virtual absence of humanity fills her with mind-bending horror. I've”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho
“A young girl, a freshman, I met in a bar in Cambridge my junior year at Harvard told me early one fall that 'Life is full of endless possibilities.' I tried valiantly not to choke on the beer nuts I was chewing while she gushed this kidney stone of wisdom, and I calmly washed them down with the rest of a Heineken, smiled and concentrated on the dart game that was going on in the corner. Needless to say, she did not live to see her sophomore year. That winter, her body was found floating in the Charles River, decapitated, her head hung from a tree on the bank, her hair knotted around a low-hanging branch, three miles away.”
— Patrick Bateman , American Psycho
Tagged: Hope
“By now you know what I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary. I got no rise as such out of it…for the most part. But the figuring it out, the challenge—the stalking and doing it right, successfully—that excited me a lot. The greater the odds against me, the more juice I got out of it.”
— Richard Kuklinski, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
Tagged: Serial Killers, Mafia, Contract Killing, Hit Men, The Hunt, Killing
“I choked her to death then cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms, cook and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body.”
— Albert Fish, Albert Fish: The Gruesome Story Of The Brooklyn Vampire
Tagged: Serial Killers, Cannibalism, Evil of Albert Fish
“We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had Fring, we had a lab, we had everything we needed and it all ran like clockwork! You could have shut your mouth, cooked, and made as much money as you ever needed. It was perfect! But no! You just had to blow it up! You, and your pride and your ego! You just had to be the man! If you’d known your place, we’d all be fine right now!”
— Mike Ehrmantraut, Breaking Bad, Season 5: Say My Name
Tagged: Ego, Meth
“One day, I will become the greatest Jedi EVER. I will even learn how to stop people from dying.”
— Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones
Tagged: Jedi, Hero
“Ah can only hope that the judge will look at mah case with an open mind.”
— Ted Bundy, Bundy's deadly charm still polarizes, 40 years later
“I killed my mother and her friend. And I killed those college girls. I killed six of them and I can show you where I hid the pieces of their bodies.”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, Confessions
“The head trip fantasies were a bit like a trophy. You know, the head is where everything is at, the brain, eyes, mouth. That's the person. I remember being told as a kid, you cut off the head and the body dies. The body is nothing after the head is cut off ... well, that's not quite true, there's a lot left in the girl's body without the head.”
— Edmund Kemper, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
Tagged: Serial Killers, Decapitation
“Just a quick glance and I knew all was lost.
I saw in real life...now a on going mind view, the black and white, were now my new boss.
I saw my life as I know quickly fade away.
I saw my love ones, in mind and thoughts that I would never be able to touch, hold, communicate closely with and kiss with care will now be at bay.
I saw the Black Side of me, was now caught and others would not suffer from my lots,
But then it dawn on me, it was not as I thought.
Yes the other in me will cause no suffering.
The living remained, the Mother, Brother, Sisters, Children, Close Friends and wife will suffer.
Ands the real me of blood, flesh and mind will suffer.
The Suspect”
— Dennis Rader, BTK Suspect May Be Writing Poetry
Tagged: Serial Killers, BTK, dark side, Suffering
“I just put it in one of the first letters. I’m always surprised I put it up there first. I think it was just — Bind, Torture, Kill. I put 'Poetic Strangler,” 'the Wichita Strangler,' 'BTK Strangler' and they put the BTK on me. They actually decided, it wasn’t me. They took one of those acronyms and said, 'Okay, this is it.' And I thought, 'That’s, that’s good. And I’ll go with that.'”
— Dennis Rader, Secret confessions of BTK
Tagged: Serial Killers, BTK, Wichita, Acronym
“Factor X is probably something I’ll never know. I actually think it may be possessed with demons. Uh, I was dropped on my head when I was a kid...”
— Dennis Rader, Secret confessions of BTK
Tagged: Serial Killers, BTK, Factor X, Head Injuries
“That particular day I had some commitments. I left those, went to one place changed my clothes, went to another place, parked my car, finally made arrangements on my hit kit, my clothes, and then walked to that residence. After spending some time at that residence—it was very cold that night. Had reservations about going in ‘cause I—I had cased the place before, and I really couldn’t figure out how to get in, and she was in the house, so I finally just selected a—a concrete block and threw it through the plate glass window on the east and came on in.…Noise. I just went in. She came out of a bedroom and thought a car had hit her house, and I told her that I was—I used a—the ruse of being wanted. I was on the run; I needed food, car, warmth, warm up, and then I asked her—I handcuffed her and kind of talked to her, told her that I would like to get some food, get her keys to her car, and kind of rest assured, you know, walked—talked with her a little bit and calmed her down a little bit. And then eventually I checked—I think she was still handcuffed. I went back and checked out where the car was, simulated getting some food, odds and ends in the house, kind of like I was leaving, then went back and removed her handcuffs and—and then tied her up and then—and then eventually strangled her. …In the interim—I took her car back to her house. In the interim I realized that I had lost one of my guns. I dropped it somewhere. So I was distraught trying to figure out where my gun was. So I went back in the house, realized I had dropped it when I went in the—when I broke the plate glass window. It dropped. It fell on the floor right there, and I found it right there. So that solved that problem. Anyway, I went back out, threw the keys—checked the car real quick—quick like and threw the keys up on top of the roof of her house, walked from her car back to my car, took my car, drove it back, and I either dropped more stuff off or I picked her up and put ‘em in my car, and then I drove northeast of Sedgwick County and dropped her off underneath a bridge.”
— Dennis Rader, Confession of BTK Killer—Dennis Rader
Tagged: Serial Killers, BTK, Wichita
“Yes, in 1979, another inmate—I guess to make a name for himself—tried to take my life. And he stuck me when I wasn't looking with a razor and opened up the whole side of my neck. And it was a miracle that I survived. When I went down to the prison infirmary, I walked down there on my own and I didn't really lose much blood. So I could just walk down there. And they sewed me up.”
— David Berkowitz
Tagged: Son of Sam, Serial Killers, Miracles, Attempted Murder, Prison
“I wouldn't say I had a plan. I just felt driven. There was just so much in me that was driving me to destroy myself at the time.”
— David Berkowitz
Tagged: Serial Killers, Son of Sam, Driven, Self-Destruction
“I was just empty. As I said, I was a blank. It was like a void, you know.”
— David Berkowitz
Tagged: Serial Killers, Empty, Son of Sam, Void
“I have asked you kindly to stop that dog from howling all day long, yet he continues to do so. I pleaded with you. I told you how this is destroying my family. We have no peace, no rest.

Now I know what kind of a person you are and what kind of a family you are. You are cruel and inconsiderate. You have no love for any other human beings. Your selfish, Mr. Carr. My life is destroyed now. I have nothing to lose anymore. I can see that there shall be no peace in my life, or my families life until I end yours.”
— David Berkowitz
Tagged: Serial Killers, Son of Sam, inconsiderate, cruel, Death Threats
“My mother, who has long since passed away, had not control over me. I was like a wild and destructive animal. My father had to pin me to the floor until these attacks stopped.”
— David Berkowitz, My Testimony
Tagged: Serial Killers, Son of Sam, Seizures
“During this period of my life I was also plagued with bouts of severe depression. When this feeling came over me, I would hide under my bed for hours. I would also lock myself in a closet and sit in total darkness from morning until afternoon. I had a craving for the darkness and I felt an urge to flee away from people.”
— David Berkowitz, My Testimony
Tagged: Serial Killers, Son of Sam, Depression, Darkness
“My parents could not reach me, not even with all of their love. Many times I saw them break down and cry because they saw that I was such a tormented person.”
— David Berkowitz, My Testimony
Tagged: Serial Killers, Son of Sam, Parents, Love, Childhood
“Now I was age 22 and this evil force was still reaching out to me. Everywhere I went there seemed to be a sign or a symbol pointing me to Satan. I felt as if something were trying to take control of my life. I began to read The Satanic Bible by the late Anton Lavey who founded the Church of Satan in San Francisco in 1966. I began, innocently, to practice various occult rituals and incantations.”
— David Berkowitz, My Testimony
Tagged: Son of Sam, Serial Killers, satan, Anton Lavey, Satanic Bible, Church of Satan, Occult, San Francisco, 1966
“In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings. I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies Larcenys, [sic] arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. for all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not worry me. I don’t believe in Man, God nor devil. I hate the whole damed [sic] human race including myself.”
— Carl Panzram, Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers
Tagged: Murder, Burglary, Robbery, Larceny, Arson, Sodomy, Conscience, God, devil, Misanthropy
“If you or any one [sic] else will take the trouble and have the inteligence [sic] and paitince [sic] to follow and examine every one of my crimes and actions you will find that I have consistently followed one idea thru all my life. I preyed upon the weak the harmless or unsuspecting. Those I have harmed were all either weaklings either mentaly [sic] or phisicaly [sic]. Those who were strong in either mind or body I first lied to and led into a trap where they were either asleep or drunk or helpless in some way. I always had all the best of it, because I knew ahead of time just what to expect and the others did not. I therefore was strong in my knolledge [sic] and stronger in body than those preyed upon. This lesson I was taught by others. Might makes right.”
— Carl Panzram, Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers
Tagged: Intelligence, Patience, Might Makes Right, Crime
“I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform other people who try to reform me. and I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill ’em.”
— Carl Panzram, Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers
Tagged: Reform, Murder, Rape, Robbery
“At that place I got to be an experienced wolf. I would start the morning with sodomy, work as hard at it as I could all day and sometimes half the night…I was so busy committing sodomy that I didn't have time left to serve Jesus as I had been taught to do in those reform schools.”
— Carl Panzram
Tagged: Rape, Male on Male Rape, Male Rape Victims, Serial Killers, Sodomy, jesus, Reform Schools
“I am 36 years old and have been a criminal all my life. I have 11 felony convictions against me. I have served 20 years of my life in jails, reform schools and prisons. I know why I am a criminal.”
— Carl Panzram
Tagged: Serial Killers, Felony Convictions, Jails, Reform Schools
“No one lays a hand on me. No one abuses me in any way. I have been trying to figure it out and I have come to the conclusion that, if in the beginning I had been treated as I am now, then there wouldn't have been quite so many people that have been robbed, raped and killed.”
— Carl Panzram
Tagged: Serial Killers
“I cried, I begged and pleaded for mercy, pity, and sympathy, but nothing I could say or do could sway them from their purpose. I left that box a sadder, sicker, but wiser boy.”
— Carl Panzram
Tagged: Serial Killers, Male Victims of Rape, Male on Male Rape, Sodomy, Hobos
“I wanted to keep something of the person with me. I kept the mummified head and skull of one of the victims in a carrying case in my locker at work.”
— Jeffrey Dahmer,
Tagged: Necrophilia, Mummy, Skull, Morbid, Serial Killers
“I tried to keep the person alive by inducing a zombie-like state by injecting first a dilute acid solution into their brain, or hot water. It never did completely work.”
— Jeffrey Dahmer,
Tagged: Serial Killers, creepy, zombies
“I had these obsessive desires and thoughts wanting to control them [victims], to–I don't know how to put it–possess them permanently.”
— Jeffrey Dahmer,
Tagged: Serial Killers, creepy, Obsession, Desire, Posession
“And then I cut the arm off. Cut each piece. Bagged each piece. Triple-bagged it in large plastic trash bags. Put them in the back of the car. Then I'm driving to drop the evidence off a ravine, ten miles from my house. Did that at three o'clock in the morning. Halfway there, I'm at a deserted country road, and I get pulled over by the police. For driving left of center. Guy calls a backup. Squad. Two of 'em there. They do the drunk test. I pass that. Shine the flashlight on the backseat, see the bags, ask me what it is. I tell 'em it's garbage that I hadn't gotten around to dropping off at the landfill. And they believe it, even though there's a smell. So they give me a ticket for driving left of center and I go back home.”
— Jeffrey Dahmer
Tagged: Serial Killers, creepy, Police
“The killing was a means to an end. That was the least satisfactory part. I didn't enjoy doing that. That's why I tried to create living zombies with uric acid in the drill [to the head], but it never worked. No, the killing was not the objective. I just wanted to have the person under my complete control, not having to consider their wishes, being able to keep them there as long as I wanted.”
— Jeffrey Dahmer,
Tagged: Serial Killers, zombies, Torture, Dominance, creepy
“Your Honor,

It is over now. This has never been a case of trying to get free. I didn’t ever want freedom. Frankly, I wanted death for myself. This was a case to tell the world that I did what I did, but not for reasons of hate. I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil or both. Now I believe I was sick. The doctors have told me about my sickness, and now I have some peace.

I know how much harm I have caused. I tried to do the best I could after the arrest to make amends, but no matter what I did I could not undo the terrible harm I have caused. My attempt to help identify the remains was the best I could do, and that was hardly anything. I feel so bad for what I did to those poor families, and I understand their rightful hate. I now know I will be in prison for the rest of my life. I know that I will have to turn to God to help me get through each day. I should have stayed with God. I tried and failed and created a holocaust. Thank God there will be no more harm that I can do. I believe that only the Lord Jesus Christ can save me from my sins.

I have instructed Mr. Boyle to end this matter. I do not want to contest the civil cases. I have told Mr. Boyle to try and finalize them if he can. If there is ever money I want it to go to the families. I have talked to Mr. Boyle about other things that might help ease my conscience in some way of coming up with ideas on how to make some amends to these families, and I will work with him on that. I want to return to Ohio and quickly end that matter so that I can put all of this behind me and then come right back here to do my sentence.

I decided to go through this trial for a number of reasons. One of the reasons was to let the world know these were not hate crimes. I wanted the world and Milwaukee, which I deeply hurt, to know the truth of what I did. I didn’t want unanswered questions. All the questions have now been answered. I wanted to find out just what it was that caused me to be so bad and evil. But most of all, Mr. Boyle and I decided that maybe there was a way for us to tell the world that if there are people out there with these disorders, maybe they can get help before they end up being hurt or hurting someone. I think the trial did that.

The judge in my earlier case tried to help me, and I refused his help, and he got hurt by what I did. I hurt those policemen in the Konerak matter, and I shall ever regret causing them to lose their jobs, and I only hope and pray they can get their jobs back because I know they did their best, and I just plain fooled them. For that I am sorry. I know I hurt my probation officer, who was really trying to help me. I am so sorry for that and sorry for everyone else I have hurt. I have hurt my mother, and father, and stepmother. I love them all so very much. I hope that they will find the same peace I am looking for.

Mr. Boyle’s associates, Wendy and Ellen, have been wonderful to me, helping me through this worst of all times. I want to publicly thank Mr. Boyle. He didn’t need to take this case. But when I asked him to help me find the answers and help others if I could, he stayed with me and went overboard in trying to help me. Mr. Boyle and I agreed that it was never a matter of trying to get off. It was only a matter of which place I would be housed the rest of my life, not for comfort, but for trying to study me in hopes of helping me and learning to help others who might have problems. I know I will be in prison. I pledge to talk to doctors who might be able to find the answers.

In closing, I just want to say that I hope God has forgiven me. I think He has. I know society will never be able to forgive me. I know the families of the victims will never be able to forgive me for what I have done. But if there is a God in heaven, I promise I will pray each day to ask them for forgiveness when the hurt goes away, if ever. I have seen their tears, and if I could give up my life right now to bring back their loved ones, I would do it. I am so very sorry.

Your honor, I know you are about to sentence me. I ask for no consideration. I want you to know that I have been treated perfectly by the deputies who work for the jail. The deputies have treated me professionally and I want everyone to know that. They have not given me special treatment.

Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners-of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. Now to the King Eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.” -1 Timothy 1:15-17

I know my time in prison will be terrible, but I deserve whatever I get because of what I have done. Thank you your honor, and I am prepared for your sentence, which I know will be the maximum. I ask for no consideration.  ”
— Jeffrey Dahmer
Tagged: Serial Killers, Remorse, Freedom, creepy, Sentencing, Apologies
“Walt Disney is a mentor for me, because I’ve always enjoyed his creativity.”
— John Wayne Gacy
Tagged: Walt Disney, Mentor, Creeativity
“I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight.”
— Gary Ridgway, Green River Killer confesses
Tagged: Murder, Serial Killers, Green River Killer, Misogyny
“One of the best things people ever did is they know how to kill.”
— Gary Ridgway
Tagged: Serial Killers, killers
“Padme: We used to come here for school retreat. We would swim to that island every day. I love the water. We used to lie out on the sand and let the sun dry us and try to guess the names of the birds singing.

Anakin: I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.”
— Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones
Tagged: Memories, Sun, Sand, smooth, Water, Birds
“Anakin: When I got to them we got into aggressive negotiations.

Padme: Aggressive negotiations? What's that?

Anakin: Ah, well, it's negotiations with a lightsaber.”
— Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones
Tagged: Negotiations, aggressive, lightsaber
“Padme: Please don't look at me like that.

Anakin: Why not?

Padme: Because it makes me feel uncomfortable.

Anakin: Sorry, my lady.”
— Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones
Tagged: leering, staring, Uncomfortable
“Padme: You're not all-powerful, Ani.

Anakin: Well, I should be.”
— Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones
Tagged: all-powerful
“When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody bad enough, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.”
— Richard Kuklinski, Iceman Confessions
Tagged: Revenge, bullying
“I’ve never felt sorry for anything I’ve done. Other than hurting my family. I do want my family to forgive me.”
— Richard Kuklinski, Serial Killer / Hitman- Richard Kuklinski (The Iceman) - Documentary
Tagged: Remorse, Family, forgiveness
“I'm not the Iceman; I'm the Nice Man.”
— Richard Kuklinski, The Iceman: the True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer by Anthony Bruno(1993-12-31)
Tagged: Irony, ice, Nice, Serial Killers
“Of course I did it. So what? Shoot me. I deserve to die.”
— Richard Ramirez
Tagged: Shoot Me, Admission of Guilt
“You know that I spent several years in one of those places [reform school] when I was a boy and the so-called Training that I received while there is mainly the cause of my being the degenerate beast that I am today. I have thought about that system of Training young boys for all of my life and I know that the whole system is wrong. That system of beating goodness, religion and Jesus into boys in the 99 times out of 100 has the direct opposite effect of taking all of the goodness, kindness and love out of them and then replacing those with hate, envy deciete, [sic] tyrany [sic]and every other kind of meaness [sic] there is.”
— Carl Panzram, Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers
Tagged: Reform School, Degenerate, Religion, jesus, Hate, Envy, Deceit
“His brains were coming out of his ears when I left him. I am not sorry. My conscious [sic] doesn't bother me. I sleep sound and have sweet dreams.”
— Carl Panzram
Tagged: Murder, Head Trauma, Remorse, Psychopath
“In my lifetime I have broken every law that was ever made by both man and God. If either had made any more, I should very cheerfully have broken them also.”
— Carl Panzram
Tagged: Law, God, Man, Serial Killers, Remorseless
“The only thanks you and your kind will ever get from me for your efforts on my behalf is that I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it.”
— Carl Panzram, Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers
Tagged: Serial Killers, Death Threats, Capital Punishment