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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

“But in all of my years of behavioral analysis and criminal investigation, I have almost never seen someone whose urges to harm others were actually uncontrollable.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls

“Bob and I were soon joined, always on an informal basis since they were officially tied up with teaching and research, by Roy Hazelwood, a brilliant agent whose special area of expertise was interpersonal violence and who had gone down to Atlanta with me four years before to work ATKID-Major Case 30: the Atlanta Child Murders, and the equally brilliant Kenneth Lanning, who focused on crimes against children.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls

“With his voice quivering, Bell responded, “When I think about it, a nine-year-old girl. I heard it on the news. When you tell me that, I can’t believe I did that. It’s like God strike me dead for doing something like that to either the nine-year-old girl or the other girl. But I can’t see me doing that. I can’t relate to that, not really either one of them.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls