David Wilson > Quotes

“there were so many men buying sexual services that the police could not keep track of the cars they were trying to record. In one night in Manchester, for example, four thousand cars were sighted and logged.”
― David Wilson, A History Of British Serial Killing: The Shocking Account of Jack the Ripper, Harold Shipman and Beyond

“why do other ‘snobs’ – and indeed everyone who dreams of a big house and an exciting social life – not turn to serial murder, too?”
― David Wilson, A History Of British Serial Killing: The Shocking Account of Jack the Ripper, Harold Shipman and Beyond

“John Scripps, who murdered three people in Singapore and Thailand,”
― David Wilson, A History Of British Serial Killing: The Shocking Account of Jack the Ripper, Harold Shipman and Beyond

“Alec personifies all those elderly people who are no longer seen as living human beings with hopes, fears and desires but simply as bodies, which makes it so much easier to ignore them when they disappear or die.”
― David Wilson, A History Of British Serial Killing: The Shocking Account of Jack the Ripper, Harold Shipman and Beyond

“Who would not like to be given a little more credit for one’s achievements, and a little less criticism for one’s failings?”
― David Wilson, A History Of British Serial Killing: The Shocking Account of Jack the Ripper, Harold Shipman and Beyond