IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
Carl Clinton Van Doren

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.
Val Kilmer

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
Pat Brown

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.
Pat Brown

Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
Pat Brown

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

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
Pat Brown

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
Pat Brown

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
Pat Brown

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.
Pat Brown

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
Pat Brown

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
Pat Brown

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.
Paul Guilfoyle

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
Pat Brown

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.
Pat Brown

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
Sol LeWitt

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.
Pat Brown

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
Joseph Wambaugh

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

There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
Pat Brown