22 Serial Killer Quotes That Will Make Your Bones Shiver

Most serial killer quotes are taken from court reports or interviews after they have committed their crimes. What makes these quotes even more shocking are the fact that many were spoken or recorded as they looked back on the lives they had taken.

Though spoken about in many books and on sites like this one, serial killers are a human anomaly. We think there are tens of thousands hiding in the shadows but we’re more likely to be hit by a falling crane than we are to die at the hands of a multiple murderer.

Here are 22 serial killer quotes that will make your bones shiver!

You know, maybe if I was nine years old and would have had to die that day, all these lives, including my family, wouldn’t be affected in this way.

Charles Cullen.

I think I have a split personality. I don’t like to hurt people but I do things I am not aware of.

Hadden Irving Clark

Evil contained in human form, a creature without a soul, no conscience, no sense of remorse, no regard for the sanctity of human life.

From the wife of one of the victims of Angel Maturino Resendiz

Listen to the heartbeats of people I’ve buried here. Listen to the heartbeats of families I’ve buried here.

Wesley Shermantine.

The police complain I’m boring. No mistresses, home abroad, money in Swiss banks, I’m normal. If that is boring then I am.

Harold Shipman.

I can’t stand a bitchy chick.

Gerald Stano.

My father did not specifically advise me to kill people. So I was thinking, it will take ages if I have to wait to get seventy women. I was trying to get to it as fast as possible, I took my own initiative to kill.

Ahmad Suradji.

I remember stopping on the way home and I just sat in the car trying to work out why I had done this killing. My mind was in a turmoil.

Peter Sutcliffe.

I made you, I can do what I like with you.

Fred West, to his daughters.

One thing is certain and that is that some of your people who do not jazz it out on that specific Tuesday night (if there be any) will get the axe.

Axeman of New Orleans.

When I see fit, I shall come and claim other victims. I alone know whom they shall be. I shall leave no clue except my bloody axe, besmeared with blood and brains of he, whom I have sent below to keep me company.

Axeman of New Orleans.

They caught my brother, who was only ten, they ate him, and sold some of his flesh for food.

Andrei Chikatilo

The cries, the blood and the agony gave me relaxation and a certain pleasure.

Andrei Chikatilo

I picked sex workers as my victims because I hate most sex workers and I did not want to pay them for sex.

Gary Ridgway.

Condemn me to death. Deliver me from this life, which is a torment. I won’t petition for mercy, nor will I appeal. I want to pass one more merry night in my cell, with coffee, cheese and cigars, after which I will go to my execution as if it were a wedding.

Fritz Haarmann

I should have gone to college, gone into real estate and got myself a fish tank. That’s what I should have done.

Jeffrey Dahmer

The closer a person is to you, and the better you know them, the more pleasurable it is to kill them.

Alexander Pichushkin

After my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck. That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.

Peter Kurten

The score is, you one, the other team 48. Seven sacred virgins entombed side by side, those less worthy are scattered wide.

Robert Charles Browne

I like children; they’re tasty.

Albert Fish.

There was nothing they could have said or done. They were dead as soon as I saw them.

Michael Bruce Ross

Big deal, death comes with the territory, see you in Disneyland.

Richard Ramirez

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