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voices of unreason

Professor Valery Fabrikant, who shot dead four colleagues at Montreal University:
Either I am insane, in which case everything is OK; but, if a normal person shot four people, questions have to be asked and the answers are terrifying.

SPOILER: he is insane.

Ian Brady, the Moors Murder:
The concept of hell and endless torment is popular with those who believe they aren't headed there.

And also with those who hate pedophiles.

Denis Nilsen, serial killer and necrophiliac:
I am always surprised and truly amazed that anyone can be attracted by the macabre. The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of what they are. They have, every one of them, got their deep, dark thoughts, with many a skeleton rattling in their secret cupboards.

Yes but they're not fucking those skeletons.

F. Lee Bailey, lawyer for the Boston Strangler:
After knowing Albert De Salvo for half an hour, the average person would feel perfectly comfortable inviting him home for dinner to meet the family. [...] I don't think De Salvo is dangerous, but I'm not about to bet my reputation or my wife's life on it.

His reputation is shit anyway? Also he got disbarred.

Ted Bundy, to a FBI agent:
You're like a fisherman who fishes for years and catches a small fish. Sometimes a medium fish. You get lucky and get a big fish. But you know that there's a really big fish under there that always gets away. You and your group are going to get a lot of serial killers and they're going to help you. But the real good ones, the only way you are going to know what goes on under the water is to go under the water. The fisherman drowns going underwater. But I can take you there without you drowning. If I trust you. And if I decide.

Pat Brown, author and commentator who presents herself as a criminal profiler, in an interview with Denis Faye:
DF: But if they're not as smart as the guys in the movies, why aren't they easier to catch?

PB: The real reason it's so hard to catch serial killers is that it's usually stranger homicides, so there's no link from the victim to the killer. He gets the window of opportunity where there are no witnesses and by the time the body is found, he's had the opportunity to get rid of evidence, or the body has taken so long to be found, maybe a year later in a remote mountain area, that all the DNA evidence is gone, and it's hard to link anybody to it. That's why it's hard, not because they’re so clever.

And the reason they usually do get caught — and it's a small percentage that do get caught; most serial homicides go unsolved — but the ones that do get caught do something stupid because of their arrogance. I like to use the example of Ted Bundy because everybody thinks he's such a brilliant serial killer. Actually, Ted was one of the stupidest ones.

Here's Ted. He decides to commit a serial homicide. He goes out in broad day light at Lake Sammamish. He goes up to women in front of other people and says, "Hi, my name is Ted, can you help me out here loading something into my car?" The women went off with him, and they didn't return. He got two that day. They put out the composite of him and underneath it said, "A guy named Ted driving a gold Volkswagen." His own girlfriend said, "Gee, that sounds like my boyfriend." Not a brilliant guy.

DF: But that's not how he got caught.

PB: She turned in Ted. They ignored him. Two other people turned in Ted. They still ignored him. Sometimes, when they get tips, the person handling them decides some tips aren't valuable or someone's getting back at their boyfriend, and for some reason, Ted Bundy got ignored.

Of course, Pat Brown also thinks we
don't need to teach our sons not to rape
because "only psychopaths are rapists."