I asked him if there was any effective treatment for people like Bundy. “He paused for a moment and said, ‘Only a sledgehammer between the eyes.

Although her parents didn’t know it, Debra had gotten a prescription for birth control pills at Planned Parenthood when she was only ten.

Crazy gets better; consciences don’t grow back, and narcissists and histrionics never learn to give up center stage or their beloved mirrors.

It made natural headlines. Prostitutes being murdered suggested a titillating story. Moreover, citizens, living in nice safe houses, whose wives and daughters were never alone on the streets could be reassured.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose’s scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. – Francis Thompson.

Recent research into the problem shows that three percent of all American males are considered antisocial, while only one percent of women are. Interestingly, little boys tend to show sociopathic traits early in childhood, while girls with antisocial personality disorders rarely exhibit symptoms before the onset of puberty.

Choices are like dominoes, one tumbling against the next and then the next until events go out of human control.

The lesson is clear: Pay attention to your dog!

And, like all the others, I have been manipulated to suit Ted’s needs. I don’t feel particularly embarrassed or resentful about that. I was one of many, all of us intelligent, compassionate people who had no real comprehension of what possessed him, what drove him obsessively.

You cannot step over a mountain,” she told me, “but if you step over pebble by pebble, you’ll look back and the mountain will be behind you.