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“What was apparent to me at that moment was that Dawn herself had become a profiler of sorts, analyzing what the offender said and laying it out for him, probing, looking for any clue to what could have led him to destroy her family, yet giving him a sense that she actually cared about his feelings.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls

“The point is, serial killers and violent predators, whatever is going on inside, do not look or act like monsters in everyday life. If they did, it would be much easier to identify and catch them. Their advantage is that we tend to look right through them.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls

“I remember Mom and me riding in complete silence,” Dawn recalled. “There was nothing to be said. I think we were so exhausted, we were spent every way you can imagine. And I don’t know that we could even allow ourselves to believe it was actually going to be over, because it felt like it would never end, that he would never be caught.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls

“In the dirt, bare footprints led from the car to the mailbox, but—ominously—there were none leading back.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls