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serial killer

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someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval

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For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises. David Fincher

Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer. Zinedine Zidane

Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie. Pat Buchanan

So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer. Ellen DeGeneres

One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure. Laurell K. Hamilton

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught. Val Kilmer

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