“There was no sadistic pleasure in the killing. I killed them as I would like to be killed myself, enjoying the extremity of the death act itself. If I did it to myself I could only experience it once. If I did it to others, I could experience the death act over and over again.“ (Dennis Nilsen)

 

“I didn’t want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them.”  (David Berkowitz)

 

Signing himself the “BTK Strangler,” the killer provided his own translation in a postscript. He wrote: “The code words for me will be... Bind them, Torture them, Kill them.”

 

He told the court, “We are a family of cannibals, we always have been, and I feel queasy if I go too long without tasting human meat. But just because we like to eat human flesh, does that mean we’re bad people?” 

Sserwadda admitted eating seven corpses in the past year, then added that his brother “is the really greedy one. He’s eaten dozens.”

He shocked the judge by asking if he could take a human leg, introduced as evidence at trial in 2001, to prison with him for a snack. “It’s still got plenty of meat on it. It’s a shame to let it go to waste.”

 

Armin Meiwes advertised online for a “young well-built man who wants to be eaten” and thus met Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, whom he killed and devoured in 2001. Defense attorneys for Meiwes submitted that he should be freed because Brandes volunteered to be slain and consumed.

 

Dahmer had conceived the bizarre notion of creating “zombies” who would be his live-in sex toys, obedient to his every whim. Instead of using voodoo, Jeffrey opted for a more direct approach, drilling holes in the selected victim’s skull, then dribbling caustic liquids into the wounds in an effort to destroy the subject’s conscious will. Needless to say, the weird approach to neurosurgery had a 100 percent failure rate, and none of Dahmer’s favored “patients” survived.

 

“I have no regrets. I killed 100 children.“ (Javed Iqbal)

 

The murderer (or someone else) had chalked a cryptic message on a nearby wall: “The Juwes are not the men that will be blamed for nothing.”

 

Asked what punishment he considered fitting for his crimes, the defendant replied, “Death by torture.”

 

In his apartment they discovered plastic bags of human flesh stored in the freezer; on the stove, a tiny hand was boiling in a pot with carrots and potatoes.

 

“I’m not claiming a huge number... I would say it runs between 80 and 110. But over eight years and three continents... One whore drowned in her own vomit while watching me disembowel her girlfriend. I’m not sure that counts as a valid kill. Did the pregnant ones count as two kills? It can get confusing.“ (Gerard John Schaefer)