Jamie Dornan Quotes

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

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.

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.

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

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.

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

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.

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 did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?