#serial

You take the individual we are talking about and then you subject him to stress. Stress happens to come randomly, but its effect on the personality is not random; it's specific. That results in a certain amount of chaos, confusion, and frustration. That person begins to seek out a target for his frustrations. The continued nature of this stress this person was under -- the nature of the flaw or weakness in his personality, together with other elements in the environment that offer him a logical target for his frustrations or escapes from reality -- yields the situation we're discussing. There is no trigger, it is truly more sophisticated than that. ↗

— Ted Bundy

#stress #ted-bundy #nature

Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender. ↗

— Chelsea Cain

#serial-killers #suspense #journalist

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#burglars #curtains #dull #friend #grew

I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer! ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#always #before #do you know #doing #done

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

#comes #ethnic #killers #likely #mixing

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

— Pat Brown

#children #kill #killer #last #least

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

#bodies #done #dozens #killers #letters

Often, a serial killer has no felony record. ↗

— Pat Brown

#killer #often #record #serial

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

— Pat Brown

#control #killing #power #revenge #serial

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

— Pat Brown

#community #killer #lot #out #serial