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

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.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

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.

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.