Pat Brown Quotes

I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days.

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now has a biographer or two.

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

I read a lot about serial killers.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

I don't like things about serial killers. There's so much serial killer information out there in documentaries constantly. A lot of it's just sort of gratuitous or it's almost like pornographic, really. There's no reason for it being shown.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!