What is a psychopath?

• A person with no conscience?

Yes—by definition (“lack of remorse”)

• A violent person?

Some are, but many are not.

• A killer ?

Most are not, but some are…

Robert DeNiro: Cape Fear

City of God: Ze Pequeno (Little Dice)

Reservoir Dogs: “Mr. Blonde” (Michael Madsen)

Anthony Hopkins: The Silence of the Lambs

Charles Manson

“From the worlds of darkness I did let loose devils and demons with thepower of scorpions to torment."

Ted Bundy: Campus Killer

“You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You’re looking into their eyes.A person in that situation is God..."

John Gacy: Killer Clown

“I should never have been convictedof anything more serious than runninga cemetary without a license."

David Berkowitz: Son of Sam

“I am deeply hurt by you calling me a woman hater. I am not. But I am a monster. I am the ‘Son of Sam’."

Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Cannibal

“After the fear and terror of what I haddone had left…I started it all over again.From then on it was a craving, a hunger..."

Peter Sutcliffe: The Yorkshire Ripper

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

Edmund Kemper: Co-Ed Killer

“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’."

Aileen Wuornos: Highway Killer

“I robbed them, and I killed them cold as ice, and I know I would kill another personbecause I’ve hated humans for a long time."

Herman Mudgett (H. H. Holmes): America’s First Serial Killer

“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer….I was

born with the Evil One standing as my sponsor

beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since.”

- H. H. Holmes

Harold Shipman: Dr. Death

"The only thing I did wrong was not having her cremated. If I had had her cremated I wouldn't be having all this trouble."

Andrei Chikatilo: Citizen X

“I felt a kind of madness andungovernability in perverted sexualacts. I couldn’t control my actions ."

Pedro Alonzo Lopez: Monster of the Andes

“I am the man of the century. No one will forget me.”

“The moment of death is enthralling and exciting. Onlythose who actually kill know what I mean…When I amreleased I will feel that moment again.”