Quotes from Robert Keller

It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done." Jeffrey Dahmer 

Yet the most terrifying thing about serial killers is that they are not shambling, jabbering ogres, but rational and calculating, impossible to tell from the general populace until it's too late. 

Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of New York City and from the ants that dwell in those cracks and feed on the dried blood of the dead…" David Berkowitz a.k.a. Son of Sam

Shanna Parkinson

she thinks, 'Oh, this guy cares'... which I didn't. I just want to get her in the vehicle and eventually kill her." - Gary Ridgeway

who was eleven years her junior.

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The search for the Green River Killer had already escalated into the biggest and most expensive manhunt in US history.

BTK Strangler by Robert Beattie.

She was also heard to tell him on several occasions, "I wish you were dead." These abuses, quite obviously, had an impact on the young boy. At age four

Barbara Kubik-Pattern, one of the task force volunteers and a self-styled psychic, informed investigators that she'd had a vision of where a woman's body could be found, close to Interstate 90. Frustrated that the police wouldn't take her tip-off seriously, Kubik-Pattern conducted her own search and eventually found the body.

On November 13, the badly decomposed remains of Mary Meehan and her unborn baby were found buried beneath an empty lot, south of Sea-Tac. Meehan was the only victim to be fully buried by the killer.

Ted Bundy, arguably America's most notorious serial killer, then on death row in Florida, offered to assist Bob Keppel in catching the killer.

There was a genuine belief among law officers that the Green River Killer would never be caught. Nine years of investigative work and $15 million later, they were no closer to catching the elusive killer.

The mutilation of the next victim was even more severe. In fact, the corpse was dismembered and scattered across two counties: the head found in Long Beach; the torso, right leg and both arms in San Pedro; the left leg in Sunset Beach. There were rope marks on the wrists and evidence that the corpse had been refrigerated prior to disposal. 

Donnelly was abducted at gunpoint on December 30, 1977. He was driven to Gacy's home where he was raped, tortured and sodomized with various objects. His head was held under water in the bathtub until he passed out. Then Gacy revived him, before holding him under water again.

The killing of Steven Tuomi may have been unintentional, but it whetted Dahmer's appetite for murder.

I couldn't stop killing. It got easier each time." William Bonin

His final words were reported to be, "Kiss my ass.

Dahmer later stated that he was strongly attracted to Sears and it is perhaps for this reason that he retained some of his body parts, the first time he had done so. He preserved Sears' skull and genitalia in acetone, storing them in his work locker before he moved them to his new apartment the following year. 

Don't you know clowns can get away with murder?" John Wayne Gacy

His plan was to create completely submissive "zombie" sex slaves and to achieve this he began to perform crude "lobotomies.

Another macabre discovery was a quilt, which Faye had made from the murdered men's clothing.

He would drill holes into the skulls of his living victims, then inject hydrochloric acid or boiling water into the frontal lobe area of their brains. When these experiments failed to achieve the desired result, Dahmer simply dispatched the unfortunate victim