Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, Violent Crimes Institute

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Quotes From Serial Killers

”I took a pin and put it through his nipple. He didn’t react too much to that, so I took another one and put it through his, his, left testicle. He tried not to scream, and that upset me. Who was he to be holding back like that? I pulled on it, the pin down there, and he reacted. I can’t say that I didn’t like it because I did. They say I’m a sadist. Something’s wrong in me. I get…..I felt like………how can I put this? Have you ever made anyone do something? Or have you ever done something to a person who didn’t want it? It’s this sensation like no other. How can I put this? I was in control when I killed them. But I was God when I made them scream.” (A Convicted Sadistic Serial Killer)

"I committed those killings because……………I wanted to. I didn’t win any lotteries in life. No one gave me money or a good job. I had to live hand to mouth, and it was the like a torture. Sometimes I didn’t, felt like I didn’t exist. People, they were, they looked over me, and it may sound little crazy, but there were these days I wondered if I did exist. You know, I asked if I was dead. I wonder why someone didn’t care about me before now. There was no one to help me with anything in life. Then I did….that, what I did, and all of, it was I’m interesting now. People want to talk to me. Now I’m important because I mutilated men. What does that say about the good old U.S. or A.?" (A Convicted Serial Killer)

The note investigators found in the decapitated head said "This is the beginning of the game .... I desperately want to see people die, it is a thrill for me to commit murder. A bloody judgment is needed for my years of great bitterness." Ten days later, a local newspaper received a communication from the killer stating that police should be working harder to catch him, and that killing brought him peace. He also stated that if police were to “spoil my mood I will kill three vegetables a week.” Further, there was a haunting threat. “If you think I can only kill children you are greatly mistaken.” (A Convicted Serial Killer)