Casey Sherman > Quotes

“there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Costa stepped out of the Jeep, smiling as if attending an exhibition where he was the featured artist. Elwood Mills handcuffed himself to the murder suspect so that Costa would not try to make an escape in the dense woods.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Remember where you are, Trooper,” Chief Marshall reminded him. “This is Provincetown. Residents let their freak flag fly around here. If we investigated everyone’s sexual predilections around town, Lord knows what else we’d find.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Kurt Vonnegut Jr. liked to read the daily paper while seated behind his desk at his day job as manager and proprietor of a car dealership in a freestanding stone garage near his home in West Barnstable on the corner of Route 6A and Plum Road.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Frances Leonardi sat in the back seat of the yellow school bus. Occasionally, she looked back at the vehicle traveling close behind them. It was a fortified army surplus Jeep driven by a court officer. Sheriff’s deputy Elwood Mills, armed with a shotgun, sat in the passenger seat.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Vonnegut opened the piece with an observation about Jack the Ripper from an old story in the London Times in 1888 in which the reporter complimented the unknown killer for his dissection skills. “Now, Cape Cod has a mutilator,” Vonnegut wrote. “Whoever did it was no artist with a knife. He chopped up the women with what the police guess was probably a brush hook or an axe.” Vonnegut laid out the “horrible and pitiful and sickening” details as he had learned them from Ed Dinis and Lester Allen. He then described Tony Costa as a gentle”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“flibbertigibbet.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Yes, the bastard claims that I’m in alliance with Manson in some sort of sick way. He’s also lumped me in with Henry Miller, calls us the three Ms, and he claims that we all view women as at best, breeders of sons, and at worst, objects to be poked, humiliated, and killed. You can throw Tony Costa into that mix as well.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Come now, ladies. That’s enough,” he told them. “We have serious work to do here.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“She had been given the opportunity to participate in civilization, and she muffed it.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“The next morning, Mailer crisscrossed Commercial Street looking for the young witches who had plagued his dreams, but they were nowhere to be found. He met Evelyn Lawson for coffee at Adams Pharmacy, where she updated him on her book about the Costa case. “I’m”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Edie left the boy standing at the edge of Coggins’ Pond at the back of the property as she tiptoed toward the wooden door and knocked.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“there”
― Casey Sherman, Animal: The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob’s Most Feared Assassin

“strikes”
― Casey Sherman, Animal: The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob’s Most Feared Assassin

“Norman Mailer was once asked how he felt when he wasn’t working. “Edgy, I get into trouble,” he replied. “I would say I’m wasting my substance completely when I’m not working.” I feel the same way.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“promised himself that he would see it through, that he would not curl up into a tight ball and weep his way into 1969.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Play your little fucking games somewhere else,” Mills said angrily.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“The vehicles all turned left onto Conwell Street, opposite Race Point Road. The street was narrow, and the convoy travelled slowly. Sadie, Thumper, and Strawberry Blonde were straddling their bicycles and waiting at the corner of Old Ann Page Way as the Jeep carrying Costa motored passed. The trio pedaled hard to catch up with the vehicle, and they rode alongside, acting as escorts for the murder suspect’s homecoming. “Should we be concerned?” Elwood Mills asked as he tightened his grip on the rifle. “Nah, they’re just girls,” the driver said. “They don’t pose a threat to us.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Was Vonnegut there?” “Yes, and he thinks it’s all very funny.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

“Steve Grund was called into the courtroom, and he was tripping out.”
― Casey Sherman, Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod