What goes through the mind of a serial killer? How could there be any rationality behind the heinous murders some of these people commit? In an attempt to learn about murder motivation, we've created a list of serial killer quotes that will give you a glimpse into the mind of some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists in modern criminal history.
From Charles Manson to Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Dennis Rader, these serial killers will give you a look into their motivations and what drove them to kill and, even crazier, keep on killing. Some of these serial killer quotes are seriously disturbing.
"I haven't blocked out the past. I wouldn't trade the person I am, or what I've done - or the people I've known - for anything. So I do think about it. And at times it's a rather mellow trip to lay back and remember. I just liked to kill, I wanted to kill. I want to master life and death."
"I've been 15 years in the nut ward, for trying to stop the trees from being cut down, from trying to rearrange the lifestyle of a bunch of people who don't want to change. But they're gonna change because a cold wind is blowing. You're gonna change or else there's going to be no life left on the planet Earth."
"I killed her, I stabbed her and she fell. And I stabbed her again. I don't know how many times I stabbed her and I don't know why I stabbed her." - Atkins during her witness stand confession.
"I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of them all."
"I just get angry with other people who think they have a right to somehow try to blame my parents for what happened. That's not right at all. No one has the right to do that because they're totally innocent. They had no knowledge of it. And that angers me."
