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

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.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Too clever is dumb.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.