Serial killers! Mystery surrounds their personalities and their way of thinking. Serial killers are people who systematically kill people during a period of time. Usually they have a ‘cooling off period' followed by an outbreak of murders. Their motives have psychological basis, often psychological gratification, anger, attention seeking or just thrill. They are loners that carefully plan their acts. All murders have a similar pattern and that's their weakness. Similarities amongst the victims, such as race, age group or sex help the police during their investigation. Serial killers have existed throughout history. Criminology records go back to 144 BC when Liu Pengli in China murdered over a hundred people until he was finally caught. During the 15^th century Gilles de Rais in France murdered between 140 and 800 boys after he had taken them to his castle. The famous Thug Behran in India killed more than 931 people by strangulation in the 1790s.

Psychologists and criminologists often try to solve murders by completing a ‘serial killer profile' than points out the similarities between the murders and the pattern of each serial killer. ‘Serial Killer Quotes' are statements made by arrested serial killers that help psychologists understand their way of thinking and make people's hair stand up! Find some of the most famous quotes here.

Aileen Wuornos stated: ‘They say it's the number of people I killed, I say it's the principle…' or the scary ‘They're daring me to kill again…' Albert DeSalvo said that ‘It wasn't as dark and scary as it sounds. I had a lot of fun … killing somebody's a funny experience'. During his arrest Andrei Chikatilo was asked to explain the reasons for killing; he said: ‘What I did was not for sexual pleasure. Rather it brought me some peace of mind.' Serial killers have high IQs and structured thoughts; for them their acts are justified and very logical; it's the rest of the world that does not understand their way of thinking!

Here are some more ‘Serial Killer Quotes'. Charles Manson stated: ‘Total paranoia is just total awareness' and Henry Blot explained in simple words the reason for committing murders ‘Every man to his own tastes. Mine is for corpses.' Do you think you can keep on reading or are you scared to face the bland truth about serial killers? See more quotes, choose your ‘favourite' serial killer and read his statements. Just please refrain from copying their acts!