In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

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

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

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.

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.

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

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.

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

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

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

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.

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

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.

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

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.

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

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

The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

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

Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

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.

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

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

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.