Quotes About Murder

South Africa has the third highest murder rate in the world, with Colombia and Swaziland ahead of it. The high rate of murder illustrates the amount of work that a Murder and Robbery detective has to cope with, and yet South Africa holds the record for apprehending serial killers within three to six months of a special investigation team being established, provided the serial killer stays active.

Surviving victims and family members of victims should realise that by discussing the details of a murder with journalists they are seriously jeopardising the chances that the suspect might be found guilty in court. They can sell their stories as soon as the case is closed and the killer is behind bars.

The motive is settled deep within the unconscious psyche, and the serial killer is unaware of this. By 'irresistible compulsion' I do not mean that serial killers have absolutely no power over the urge to kill. Many of them experience the urge as an external force taking control of their own will and forcing them to commit murder, a force they perceive they cannot resist.

Satanists will commit murder in honour of the Devil, but serial killers commit murder for their own subconscious psychological gain. Satanists operate in cults, serial killers mainly work alone.

Psychologists are bound by an ethical code not to discuss their patients, unless a patient poses a serious threat to his own life or the lives of others. I was allowed to read his file. There appeared to be no medical or psychiatric problems with our suspect. I was reminded of the Station Strangler, who booked himself into hospital just before or after a murder.

But the very next day, a new serial killer filled the place that this one had vacated.

He said he inspected her vagina and found that she was no longer a virgin, whereupon he strangled her in order to save her from the same kind of life that he had.

In co-operation with Dr Mark Wellman of the MTN Centre for Crime Prevention Studies at Rhodes University, we will have established a data bank on serial killers by the end of 2000. This data bank is a sought after commodity by the rest of the world, since South Africa has the second highest number of serial killers. The United States of America has the highest and unconfirmed reports indicate that there have been about fifteen serial killers in Russia in the past five years.

A killer who operates in the dark of night and takes precautions to hide his identity has a low risk, while one who blatantly commits the murder without regard for being identified takes a greater risk. Serial killers' arrogance sometimes causes them to take greater risks.

Serial killers generally present themselves as normal people to the rest of the community. They go to church, they take their children to school, visit restaurants and buy groceries just like everyone else. They are someone's son, someone's brother, someone's neighbour. I sometimes think of them as nice people who have this nasty habit of killing others.

Serial killers do experience cooling-off periods during which they either willingly refrain from murder, or they are incarcerated and unable to commit murder, or they move to another place where they carry on undetected.

Serial killers are not born evil, they develop into killers as a consequence of what happens to them during their childhood years. The tragedy of serial killers lies in the dichotomy that they feel compelled to kill innocent strangers in order to express their own pain and anger. It is an existential manifestation to them.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

I never think environmental hazards are going to kill me. I only think serial killers are.

THEY KIDNAP AND MURDER MY HUSBAND ON OUR HONEYMOON My new husband and I are vacationing in Buenos Aires.

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

Il faut qu'il ait tué bien des gens pour s'être fait si riche.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Murder is something you read about, listen to on a wireless, see at the pictures, discover in print every Sunday morning when you open your newspaper. But you never come across in your own everyday life. It happens to other people, maybe in other districts, but it doesn't happen in your family, or among your neighbours, or down your street.

The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to swear to lie.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

Albert Jay Nock wrote vividly that the State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. . . . It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien. Nock

What particularly needs to be done is to enlighten the public on the State's true nature, so that they can see that the State habitually violates the generally accepted injunctions against robbery and murder, that the State is the necessary violator of the commonly accepted moral and criminal law.

Albert Jay Nock wrote vividly that the State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. . . . It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.