Butcher, Baker Quotes

“Gilmour had to laugh. He’s a cop, he thought, for the same reason that I am. He’s a cop because, every once in awhile, he got to put a bad guy away. Forever. After”
― Walter Gilmour, Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer

“Some town cynics dismissed it as a move designed to get him clemency in his sentencing. Still, Bob had his supporters, mostly the town businessmen, who seemed to honor each other. Because of their mutual admiration they felt they could do no wrong, and neither could their offspring. In this group, the feeling was strong that Bob Hansen was in jail because of Chief Wiseman’s railroad. Things”
― Walter Gilmour, Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer

“Hansen had built a little world where he could follow his deadly pursuits away from the glare of home life. It was an old saw, as far as cops were concerned. People commit crimes in their own area, within their own comfort zone. Hansen was no exception. While”
― Walter Gilmour, Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer

“I think society as a whole downgrades prostitutes,” Galyan told Hansen. “And because gals disappear from a bar, or someone takes them out and dumps them in a back alley somewhere, the whole world doesn’t come to a screeching halt. nobody really misses them, except maybe one or two close friends, right? The whole world doesn’t mourn the passing of a prostitute that dies one way or the other, or even care how she dies.” “By”
― Walter Gilmour, Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer

“If anyone had thought that Hansen was going to give a straightforward confession, they had been sadly disabused of that notion. They had come to that vexing axiom: If a subject is lying, but not lying all the time, everything he says is untrue, since there is no reliable way to tell when the person is lying and when he’s telling the truth. To challenge Hansen, they were going to have to find a way to attack the known, or strongly suspected, weaknesses in his story. That had to start, it seemed, with a full accounting of the number of victims.  ”
― Walter Gilmour, Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer

“Smith,”
― Walter Gilmour, Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer