Serial killers crave notariety, criminologists crave power.
Killers such as the Kansas man who called himself BTK are "basically losers" who never distinguished themselves except through brutality, according to James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University criminologist and author of the book "Extreme Killing."
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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