Psychopaths: Up Close and Personal

PEEK INSIDE THE MINDS OF THE MOST DISTURBING MURDERERSHear from doctors, lawyers, relatives, and psychopaths themselves to see what makes killers tick.'' I have a nut ball. . . he''s a real one-off. . . He''s got a woman''s breast in his jacket pocket, for Christ''s sake.'' --Phone call about Wayne Adam Ford, ''The Killer with a Conscience''''The depravity of this murder simply shocks the conscience of this court. One who callously destroys a family to accomplish her own selfish ends must face the most severe consequences that the law can provide.'' --Sentencing statement for Melanie McGuire, ''The Ice Queen''''I felt nothin''! . . . There was nothing going through my mind until they were already dead. . . I mean, it was like watching it [on TV].'' --Michael Bruce Ross''Killing a broad doesn''t make any difference to me. Killing ANY FUCKIN'' BODY doesn''t make any difference to me.'' --Kenneth Bianchi, ''The Hillside Strangler''''He talked about the police searching for bodies in woods and rivers. He gave it, as his opinion, that the best way to get rid of a body was to put it in concrete on a construction site.'' --Gilly Page on John Cannan''Well, it was me all along. I would have killed and kept on killing. . . They had all the facts and now even the psychiatrists have got it all wrong.'' --Peter Sutcliffe, ''The Yorkshire Ripper''