Learning about crime in great detail forces us to ask ourselves how it happened, how the victims and perpetrators got to that point, how the law works, how the police force functions.
'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 read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.
Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
I read a lot about serial killers.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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 I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.
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.
I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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.
The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.
I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.
The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.
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.
There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.
Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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.
Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.
