Serial murder may, in fact, be a much older phenomenon than we realize. The stories and legends that may have filtered down about witches and werewolves and vampires may have been a way of explaining outrages so hideous that no one in the small and close-knit towns of Europe and early America could comprehend the perversities we now take for granted. Monsters had to be supernatural creatures. They couldn't be just like us.
John Douglas, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, 2017
John Douglas, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, 2017
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