Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

- Pat Brown

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

- Pat Brown

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

- Pat Brown

Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.

- Pat Brown

Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.

- Pat Brown

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

- Pat Brown

We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

- Pat Brown

Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

- Pat Brown

The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

- Pat Brown

Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

- Pat Brown

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

- Pat Brown

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

- Pat Brown

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

- Pat Brown

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

- Pat Brown

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

- Pat Brown

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

- Pat Brown

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

- Pat Brown

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

- Pat Brown

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

- Pat Brown

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

- Pat Brown