Pat Brown Serial Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Very few serial killers keep you alive for very long. They abduct you and you're dead within an hour.

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

What we've got here is a sexually sadistic pathological serial killer. And he is the scariest of them all, the Hollywood type that we see in the movies and don't really think is going to strike in our neighborhood. But he's out there.

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!

The No. 1 job of serial killers is security. Yes, I would be looking at this guy very carefully for those reasons. When you're going out to car at night, the last person you want to walk you to your car is a security guard.