“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing...I was born with the evil one standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the wor...
"Eventually I crossed that invisible line of no return. After years of mental torment, behavioural problems, deep inner struggles and, my own rebellious ways, I became the criminal that, at the time, it seemed as if it was my destiny to be...
“I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the h...
"All of a sudden I realised that I had just done something that separated me from the human race and it was something which could never be undone. I realised that from that point on I could never be like normal people. I must have stood th...
"When I was growing up, I was so disruptive in school and had so many emotional problems, behavioral problems, that the school officials told my parents, you know, you're going to have to—to keep David in school, you're going to have to ta...
"I am sorry for only two things. These two things are I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life-time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damned human race. I wish the entire human race had one neck and I...
"I want to be hanged and I don't want any interference by you or your filthy kind. I just know the more about the world and the essential evil nature of man and don't play the hypocrite. I am proud of having killed off a few and regret tha...
"I stayed with him for about a month, hoboing our way east, stealing and burning everything we could. I taught him how to set fire to a church after we robbed it. We got very busy on that, robbing and burning a church every chance we got"<...
"It was a man and he was begging, and pleading, and praying, I guess. And he was 'Please, God'n all over the place. So I told him he could have half an hour to pray to God and if God could come down and change the circumstances, he'd have ...
"That was just done as a prank. I found a dog, and cut it open just to see what The insides looked like, and for some reason I thought it would be a fun prank to stick the head on a stake and set it out in the woods. And brought one of my ...
"I've learned that God has been showing me to forgive myself, because it's in the Bible that God -- in the Old Testament and in the New -- that God forgives sins for those who come to him through faith in Christ. And I did that. And I feel...
"I am probably the loneliest person in the world because I have nothing I care for. And I can’t make any friends to have any kind of a relationship or…so I’ve lost everything. I’ve lost everything I ever cared for. Everything I ever wanted...