Ryan Green > Quotes

“lived. Ronald had been conditioning her for decades to believe that she could not survive out in the world without him to care for her, something that she believed until her very final moments.”
― Ryan Green, Obeying Evil: The Mockingbird Hill Massacre Through the Eyes of a Killer

“for her being a ‘bad wife.’ Over the”
― Ryan Green, Torture Mom: A Chilling True Story of Confinement, Mutilation and Murder

“while the soul of mankind as a whole has become less savage, there still exists the seed of the blackest brutality in some of us. Number”
― Ryan Green, Fred & Rose West: Britain's Most Infamous Killer Couples

“She had such faith in everyone she met, and it felt criminal to let her down.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“brothers’ escalating sexual behaviour, even as they moved on to frottage”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“When children are abused by their parents, they do not stop loving the parents, they stop loving themselves.”
― Ryan Green, Vampire Killer: A Terrifying True Story of Psychosis, Mutilation and Murder

“Through killing, she could control absolutely everything. She could make the chaos of the world into order. She could make it all fit into her story perfectly.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“The brutal torments that were meant to beat all of the evil out of these boys had an entirely different effect on Carl. They beat all of the human weakness and empathy out of him instead. They hardened him into a man.”
― Ryan Green, Kill 'Em All: A True Story of Abuse, Revenge and the Making of a Monster

“want”
― Ryan Green, Gorilla Killer: A True Story of Betrayal, Brutality and Butchery

“A serial killer is a soul who has been driven to the most unspeakable of crimes, not just once, and not just in a fit of rage–but gradually, over a period of time, at least two to three times, driven by a need, be it sexual, rage-fuelled, power-based, or constructed around the thrill of some perverse psychological gratification.”
― Ryan Green, Colombian Killers: The True Stories of the Three Most Prolific Serial Killers on Earth

“woman who was incapable of that emotion. Back in Business Despite all of the prohibitions against Dorothea”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“The treacherous voice that exists inside of all of us, demanding that we destroy our lives and go back to the freedom we knew before, wasn’t a whisper in Katherine’s mind, it was a primal scream.”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“More pressingly for a man like David, she had lost her waifish figure after years of work and replaced it with a toned body that she wasn’t shy about showing off. Combined with the way that she was predatorily sexual, he thought that he had hit the jackpot.”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“Quite the opposite, she went after each individual man with a hunger akin to desperation.”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“Whenever Katherine was accused of wrongdoing throughout her life, she would go through the same patterns to defend herself. First, she would deny that her crime had ever been committed. Then, she would deny that she was responsible. When both of those failed, her final fall-back position was always that the person whom she had victimised had deserved the punishment. BPD offered her one final out; even if her victim didn’t deserve whatever the latest cruelty was that Katherine had conjured up, it still wasn’t her fault. It was her sickness.”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“You don’t matter, you cunt-faced son of a whore.”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“She would eventually be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), which explained many of these strange habits away.”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“It was hardly surprising that she no longer saw other people as human, only as backing characters in her own grand drama.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“She was drawn to her family as the only people who’d ever truly cared for her but repulsed by them in equal measure for the associations they provoked”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“Psychologists have been quick to attribute to Luis the three characteristics that define most sexually driven serial killers: acceptance seeking, repressed hostility, and incompatibility amongst peers--or narcissism, sadism, and loneliness. While”
― Ryan Green, Colombian Killers: The True Stories of the Three Most Prolific Serial Killers on Earth

“as the school bully for long enough to know when insults were being flung around. She blocked them all out. This was the happiest day of her life and if some piece of shit out-of-towners couldn’t be happy for her then what the hell did she care. It was her day. Her’s and David’s. In a state of advanced inebriation, the two of them made their way back to David’s company-issued apartment to consummate their new union. Katherine was always enthusiastic, but on their wedding night, she was practically ecstatic, tearing David’s clothes off and rushing him through to the bedroom so fast that they forgot to lock the door behind them. They had sex three times in quick succession, with Katherine coaxing David”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“Those afflicted with BPD suffer from emotional instability—in Katherine’s case, almost always caused by feelings of rejection or abandonment. They suffer from cognitive distortions, where they see the world in black and white, with anyone who isn’t actively ‘with them’ being considered an enemy. They are also prone to catastrophising, where they make logical leaps from minor impediments in their plans to assumptions of absolute ruin. BPD is often characterised by extremely intense but unstable relationships, as the sufferer gives everything that they can to a relationship in their attempts to ensure their partner never leaves but instead end up burning themselves out and blaming that same partner for the emotional toll that it takes on them. The final trait of BPD is impulsive behaviour, often characterised as self-destructive behaviour. In Katherine’s case, this almost always manifested itself in her hair-trigger temper. When she was enraged, it was like she lost all rational control over her actions, seeing everyone else as her enemies. This manifested itself in the ridiculous bullying she conducted at school, in her lashing out when she failed her test and in the vengeance that she took on her sexual abusers. It is likely that she inherited this disorder from her mother, who showed many of the same symptoms, and that they were exacerbated by her chaotic home life and the lack of healthy relationships in the adults around her that she might have modelled herself after. With Katherine, it was like a Jekyll and Hyde switch took place when her temper was raised. The charming, eager-to-please girl who usually occupied her body was replaced with a furious, foul-mouthed hellion bent on exacting her revenge no matter what the cost. In itself, this could have been an excellent excuse for almost everything that she did wrong in her life, up to and including the crimes that she would later be accused of. Unfortunately, this sort of ‘flipped switch’ argument doesn’t hold up when you consider that her choice to arm herself with a lethal weapon was premeditated. Part of this may certainly have been the cognitive distortion that Katherine experienced, telling her that everyone else was out to get her and that she had to defend herself, but ultimately, she was choosing to give a weapon to a person who would use it to end lives, if she had the opportunity. Assuming that this division of personalities actually existed, then ‘good’ Katherine was an accomplice to ‘bad’ Katherine, giving her the material support and planning that she needed to commit her vicious attacks.”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“With a formal diagnosis of BPD, Katherine would have had the ultimate freedom from responsibility for her actions. Her crimes would no longer be hers at all, even when there was nobody else to blame—they would be because of the BPD.”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“She was constantly bored out of her mind. All of the things that used to bring her joy had become numbed and even the satisfaction of her work never seemed to reach her. The treacherous voice that exists inside of all of us, demanding that we destroy our lives and go back to the freedom we knew before, wasn’t a whisper in Katherine’s mind, it was a primal scream.”
― Ryan Green, Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

“Even preying on the most vulnerable in society, Dorothea’s murderous ways would not go unnoticed forever. All it would take was one victim who was not so easily forgotten.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“She’d lived in her own fantasy for so long that it’s hard to say whether she truly believed that when the police went digging in her garden, there would be nothing to find, or if she’d just greatly overestimated her ability to cover her tracks.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“Even the vague deceptions of her sisters were too close to the painful reality to endure. To feel truly safe in her new life, she had to create more distance from the past, so she set about cobbling together a whole new history for herself out of the only good memories she had — those nights spent in the homes of Mexican families that seemed to care about her, and the loving embrace of her siblings.”
― Ryan Green, Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

“Anything resembling a romantic dream about him had long since withered away in the face of the sad reality that he was just a spoiled, stupid, little boy.”
― Ryan Green, Black Widow: The True Story of Giggling Granny Nannie Doss

“All that Carl had learned from the experience was an absolute loathing for his fellow man, that the strong preyed on the weak, and that lying would get him whatever he wanted.”
― Ryan Green, Kill 'Em All: A True Story of Abuse, Revenge and the Making of a Monster

“Stories filtered back to Lou about her daughter’s harlotry, about the girl roaming bars topless, being fondled in public and going off into back rooms with drunkards. Nannie was trying to wash away all of the pain in a sea of gin and sex, but it was never enough, and in the morning the hangover and black moods would sweep back in, along with the shame.”
― Ryan Green, Black Widow: The True Story of Giggling Granny Nannie Doss