Jack Olsen > Quotes

“The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. —Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology”
― Jack Olsen, Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell

“Taunja Bennett kissed her mother good-bye and said she was off to meet a boyfriend. She disappeared from sight in the direction of a bus stop, her Walkman plugged into her ears. Lately the twenty-three-year-old high school dropout had been listening over and over to “Back to Life” by Soul II Soul. She carried a small black purse. Taunja was mildly retarded from oxygen deprivation at birth. She’d been a difficult child. In a cooking class at Cleveland High School, she assaulted a classmate in a quarrel over a piece of cake. Addicted to alcohol and drugs, she was committed to a state hospital for six months. At twenty-one, she frequented northeast Portland bars like the Woodshed, the Copper Penny and Thatcher’s. She hustled drinks, shot pool and got into trouble with men. She was petite and pretty—five-five, with glistening dark brown hair, liquid brown eyes, a trim figure,”
― Jack Olsen, "I": The Creation of a Serial Killer

“HOUSTON, TEXAS, IS A CULTURE DISH of urban sprawl, a baffling and stultifying and astonishing congeries of good taste, bad taste and no taste scattered across five hundred square miles of flat Gulf coastal plains.”
― Jack Olsen, The Man with Candy: The Story of the Houston Mass Murders

“There are very definite aspects to our culture pattern which give psychopaths encouragement. In America we put great value on the acquisition of material gain, prestige, power, personal ascendance, and the competitive massing of goods. —William Krasner, The Psychopath in Our Society, Neurotica II, 1948 Thursday”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims

“W. W. Horsley was a skilled surgeon, a balding near-genius”
― Jack Olsen, Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell

“Growth stationery from “X. Drew Butler,” advising the mayor of Airway Heights to prepare for major expansion”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims

“The planet is man’s; he has bent it to his will and made it his to enjoy; his to develop, and his to destroy.”
― Jack Olsen

“condition for days? Or should I end her torture quickly? I couldn’t take her to the hospital, I’d go to jail for sure. I”
― Jack Olsen, "I": The Creation of a Serial Killer

“I masturbated at the memory of her skin under mine.”
― Jack Olsen, "I": The Creation of a Serial Killer

“A lot of women are users. Sex is a means to an end, not a romantic thing. They’ll give you a little, but not because they love you.”
― Jack Olsen, "I": The Creation of a Serial Killer

“thought I might have to prove later that she was my kill and not somebody else’s, so I grabbed two fourteen-inch white plastic ties from the truck and cinched them around her neck for ID.”
― Jack Olsen, "I": The Creation of a Serial Killer

“getting run up a tree by a bear was part of the adventure and the fun of Glacier Park;”
― Jack Olsen, Night of the Grizzlies

“Philip Youngman, curator of mammals at the National Museum of Canada, spoke for many. “It is just too much to buy the story that sheer coincidence caused two grizzly bears only twenty miles apart to attack two similar camping parties at almost the same time,”
― Jack Olsen, Night of the Grizzlies

“Some guys got class even if they’re cops. When”
― Jack Olsen, The Misbegotten Son: A Serial Killer and His Victims - The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross

“Serial murderers are frequently found to have unusual or unnatural relationships with their mothers.”
― Jack Olsen, "I": The Creation of a Serial Killer

“dignity shortly after dark. While they were”
― Jack Olsen, Night of the Grizzlies

“There seems to be a tacit assumption that if grizzlies survive in Canada and Alaska, that is good enough. It is not good enough for me. Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness to heaven; one may never get there.”
― Jack Olsen, Night of the Grizzlies

“guy?” The”
― Jack Olsen, Salt of the Earth: One family's journey through the violent American landscape

“In almost every case, the grizzly will depart at high speed the instant he recognizes his one natural enemy on Earth: man.”
― Jack Olsen, Night of the Grizzlies

“husbands.”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims

“to his mother saying he was headed”
― Jack Olsen, The Misbegotten Son: A Serial Killer and His Victims - The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross

“He made his job descriptions sound like a steady upward spiral toward success. Of his days as movie usher and popcornmaker he said, “I was in Los Angeles working in the theater business for about a year. . . . I was working for the National General Corporation, which was a multinational conglomerate. They both own theaters and motion production companies. My long-range interest at the time was hopefully to get into screenwriting, so I worked for the theater in the corporation with the hope of getting into screenwriting. The theater I worked at was within about a mile’s drive of Universal Studios, where National General did a lot of their filming. So I was close to where I was trying to break into it.”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims

“significant effect on the behavioral and intellectual development of their children.” —Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley, Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing”
― Jack Olsen, "I": The Creation of a Serial Killer

“deep regret, “none of this would ever have happened.”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims

“She wondered why he hadn’t come after her. How many men would let their wives walk out of a restaurant late at night and not give a damn where they went ? She wished she could stop thinking”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims