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John E. Douglas Quote: “When you conduct as many interviews as I and my colleagues have, you pretty much know in advance certain things the offender is going to tell you. There are almost always similarities in the pattern.”

51. “When you conduct as many interviews as I and my colleagues have, you pretty much know in advance certain things the offender is going to tell you. There are almost always similarities in the pattern.”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “It’s a lot harder to access serial killers for interviews than it used to be. Even for interviews that are strictly law enforcement related, the days of simply showing up at a prison and presenting your credentials as Bob Ressler and I used to do are long gone. Not only does the inmate have to give informed consent, but there are so many rules relating to safety, criminal process, and correctional system bureaucracy that getting in to see violent offenders is extremely difficult.”

52. “It’s a lot harder to access serial killers for interviews than it used to be. Even for interviews that are strictly law enforcement related, the days of simply showing up at a prison and presenting your credentials as Bob Ressler and I used to do are long gone. Not only does the inmate have to give informed consent, but there are so many rules relating to safety, criminal process, and correctional system bureaucracy that getting in to see violent offenders is extremely difficult.”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “Very little research was available relative to interviewing prison inmates, and what there was pertained specifically to convictions, probation and parole, and rehabilitation. However, the record seemed to indicate that violent and narcissistic inmates, on the whole, were incorrigible – meaning they were not able to be controlled, improved, or reformed. By talking to them, we hoped to learn if this was indeed the case.”

53. “Very little research was available relative to interviewing prison inmates, and what there was pertained specifically to convictions, probation and parole, and rehabilitation. However, the record seemed to indicate that violent and narcissistic inmates, on the whole, were incorrigible – meaning they were not able to be controlled, improved, or reformed. By talking to them, we hoped to learn if this was indeed the case.”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “When we started studying serial killers back in the 1970s and ’80s, we realized that most of them had what we referred to as a “cooling-off” period between crimes, whether that period was a few days, a few weeks, or even a few years. But then the internal pressure would build up again and they would be back to it.”

54. “When we started studying serial killers back in the 1970s and ’80s, we realized that most of them had what we referred to as a “cooling-off” period between crimes, whether that period was a few days, a few weeks, or even a few years. But then the internal pressure would build up again and they would be back to it.”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “Predators may look and sound and often act like we do, but they don’t think like we do.”

55. “Predators may look and sound and often act like we do, but they don’t think like we do.”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “But I have to admit that to a certain extent, it’s the same talent that con men and criminal predators use to get by.”

56. “But I have to admit that to a certain extent, it’s the same talent that con men and criminal predators use to get by.”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “Examples like this are one of the reasons I’ve never set much store in polygraph exams. It is largely ineffective on suspects who already have a criminal history and who may currently be involved in other crimes. They believe in their own warped minds that their crime was justified, or they were entitled to do it. Or, as several serial predators have told me over the years, if you can lie well to the police, how hard is it to lie to a box?”

57. “Examples like this are one of the reasons I’ve never set much store in polygraph exams. It is largely ineffective on suspects who already have a criminal history and who may currently be involved in other crimes. They believe in their own warped minds that their crime was justified, or they were entitled to do it. Or, as several serial predators have told me over the years, if you can lie well to the police, how hard is it to lie to a box?”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “As is true with ordinary people, serial predators can mistake luck for personal ability.”

58. “As is true with ordinary people, serial predators can mistake luck for personal ability.”

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John E. Douglas Quote: “One of the ways we analyze UNSUBs is whether there is any evidence they have returned to one or more crime scenes or body dump sites. It isn’t even necessarily that we are going to surveil a crime scene in hopes of catching the offender, but whether he returns or not – either way – gives us a lot of behavior to work with.”

59. “One of the ways we analyze UNSUBs is whether there is any evidence they have returned to one or more crime scenes or body dump sites. It isn’t even necessarily that we are going to surveil a crime scene in hopes of catching the offender, but whether he returns or not – either way – gives us a lot of behavior to work with.”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “Manson never killed anyone himself. What was terrifying about him, though, was his ability to attract seemingly normal, middle-class followers and inspire them to do his murderous bidding without any question of conscience or pang of remorse.”

60. “Manson never killed anyone himself. What was terrifying about him, though, was his ability to attract seemingly normal, middle-class followers and inspire them to do his murderous bidding without any question of conscience or pang of remorse.”

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John E. Douglas Quote: “What we learned from the Manson interview was later applied to the bureau’s dealing with other cults with charismatic and manipulative leaders, such as Reverend Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple in Guyana, David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, and the Freemen militia movement in Montana. The outcome is not always as we would like it, but it is important to understand the personality of those we are dealing with so we can try to predict behavior.”

61. “What we learned from the Manson interview was later applied to the bureau’s dealing with other cults with charismatic and manipulative leaders, such as Reverend Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple in Guyana, David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, and the Freemen militia movement in Montana. The outcome is not always as we would like it, but it is important to understand the personality of those we are dealing with so we can try to predict behavior.”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “She was a large woman, probably tipping the scales at 160 pounds. She wasn’t the type whom most people might assume a serial killer would target. Rader seemed to pride himself in that fact.”

62. “She was a large woman, probably tipping the scales at 160 pounds. She wasn’t the type whom most people might assume a serial killer would target. Rader seemed to pride himself in that fact.”

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John E. Douglas Quote: “Could newspapers now be held hostage by any dangerous lunatic who wanted his opinions heard?”

63. “Could newspapers now be held hostage by any dangerous lunatic who wanted his opinions heard?”

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John E. Douglas Quote: “Many killers would have it that their murderous actions were not their own choice at all, that killing was a fixed, nonnegotiable action for them. Yet nothing I have seen in all my years of criminal investigation leads me to accept that premise, except in the most extreme cases of mental illness.”

64. “Many killers would have it that their murderous actions were not their own choice at all, that killing was a fixed, nonnegotiable action for them. Yet nothing I have seen in all my years of criminal investigation leads me to accept that premise, except in the most extreme cases of mental illness.”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “The term serial killer designates a predator who murders repeatedly and with a certain general periodicity. And after each crime, there is a “cooling-off” period. If the killer stops without being caught, it is almost always for one of three reasons: He has died; he has been arrested for an unrelated crime and is in prison; or he hasn’t actually stopped, but has merely moved to another area and law enforcement has not connected his new crimes with the older ones.”

65. “The term serial killer designates a predator who murders repeatedly and with a certain general periodicity. And after each crime, there is a “cooling-off” period. If the killer stops without being caught, it is almost always for one of three reasons: He has died; he has been arrested for an unrelated crime and is in prison; or he hasn’t actually stopped, but has merely moved to another area and law enforcement has not connected his new crimes with the older ones.”

— John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas Quote: “Normal people find it difficult to grasp the reality that predators really do think differently.”

66. “Normal people find it difficult to grasp the reality that predators really do think differently.”

— John E. Douglas

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