"I had gotten out of bed and I was in the kitchen making coffee. Evidently, I had done some cooking the night before. There was some meat on the stove in a frying pan. I think it was human flesh. I had gone to the bathroom and found her in my bathtub, and part of her buttocks was missing. The feet were gone, the hand, the arm. I found them in the refrigerator."
EDDIE COLE

"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."
TED BUNDY

"I talked to her saying I was sorry for what I had done. It was the first time I had apologized to someone I had killed"
PETER SUTCLIFFE

"It wasn't as dark and scary as it sounds. I had a lotta fun...Killing somebody's a funny experience"
ALBERT DE SALVO

"I didn't want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them."
DAVID BERKOWITZ

"I really screwed up this time."
JEFFREY DAHMER

Q. "What do you think when you see a pretty girl walking down the street?" A. "One side of me says, 'I'd like to talk to her, date her.' The other side of me says, 'I wonder how her head would look on a stick?'"
EDMUND KEMPER

"Sex is one of my downfalls. I get sex any way I can get it. If I have to force somebody to do it, I do....I rape them; I've done that. I've killed animals to have sex with them, and I've had sex while they're alive."
HENRY LEE LUCAS

"I took her bra and panties off and had sex with her. That's one of those things I guess that got to be a part of my life -- having sexual intercourse with the dead."
HENRY LEE LUCAS

"The women I killed were filth -- bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit."
PETER SUTCLIFFE

"I always had the desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything that hurt. The desire to inflict pain, that is all that is uppermost."
ALBERT FISH

"He started messing with the christmas tree, telling me how nice the christmas tree was. So I shot him."
DAVID BULLOCK

"You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!"
TED BUNDY

"TB: How does a person . . . how does a soldier deal with war?
HA: Well, he has the justification built in, you see, there.
TB: So does the mass murderer.
TED BUNDY

"I think in some way I wanted it to end, even if it meant my own destruction."
DAHMER

"I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium, that's what I should have done."
DAHMER