Roy Hazelwood > Quotes

“Roy's key finding was DeBardeleben's criminal sexual sadism. For such offenders, sex and suffering are one and the same. This perversion, or paraphilia, is surprisingly unusual, even among sexual criminals. But those who harbor it are the most dangerous of all aberrant offenders. They are the great white sharks of deviant crime, marked by their wildly complex fantasy worlds, unequaled criminal cunning, paranoia, insatiable sexual hunger, and enormous capacity for destruction." ... "The crimes are fantasies being acted out. The more complex the crime, the more complex the fantasy and the more intelligent the offender.
”
― Roy Hazelwood

“You can move a lot of garbage across the bridge of love: alcoholism, infidelity, addiction, abuse.”
― Roy Hazelwood, Dark Dreams

“Just as Saint Augustine recognized that sin begins as an intention, we profilers saw that violent sexual crimes originate in fantasy. Our next challenge was to understand why certain individuals allowed their fantasies to lead them to cross the normal bounds of acceptable behavior. To do that, we had to examine their motivations.”
― Roy Hazelwood, Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind

“Many people mistakenly believe that rape is a sexually motivated act. In fact, a rapist doesn't commit the crime because he is "horny" or because his wife cheated on him, although he may use those factors as excuses. The rapist uses sex as a tool of aggression. The sexual assault is an assertion of power or an expression of anger, or it may be a combination of the two. In any event, sexual assault primarily serves nonsexual needs.”
― Roy Hazelwood, Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind

“wire.”
― Roy Hazelwood, Dark Dreams

“important”
― Roy Hazelwood, Dark Dreams

“I believe that what we call intuition is simply stored and forgotten experiences that the conscious mind somehow can instantaneously retrieve, combine, and process in a way that, superficially at least, seems miraculous or preternatural.”
― Roy Hazelwood, Dark Dreams

“When I have the opportunity to interview one of these men, I always ask if the death penalty would have deterred him from his crime. Without exception, he'll say no. I asked one rapist why, and he responded by asking me a series of questions.
Had I ever skipped school?
Yes.
Did I know in advance that I would be punished if caught?
Yes.
Then why did I do it?
Because I didn't think I would be caught, I said.
There you go, he said.”
― Roy Hazelwood, Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind

“I just don’t believe there’s such a thing as intuition. I prefer to think of the human mind as an immense hard drive, a massive collection of data from which nothing of potential value to its owner is ever deleted. This information may not be dancing around in your forebrain, but it is ready when you need it. I believe that what we call intuition is simply stored and forgotten experiences that the conscious mind somehow can instantaneously retrieve, combine, and process in a way that, superficially at least, seems miraculous or preternatural.”
― Roy Hazelwood, Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind

“Premenstrual Syndrome A professional woman attacked a state police officer with a heavy, blunt object after he had stopped her for DWI. Her position at trial was temporary insanity due to PMS, and it was successful.”
― Roy Hazelwood, Dark Dreams