Justice & Law Quote by Pat Brown

Pat Brown frames serial murder less as twisted pleasure than as a crude, repeatable strategy for feeling large in a world that otherwise keeps the killer small. The sentence is engineered to puncture the lurid myth that these crimes are primarily about sex, madness, or “evil” in the abstract. Power and control are the point; everything else is window dressing. It’s a demystifying move that also shifts attention from the killer’s inner drama to the social machinery that amplifies it.

The subtext is accusatory. By naming “community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations” as an “added ego boost,” Brown implies that the post-crime ecosystem becomes part of the reward cycle. Fear turns the offender into a spectral celebrity; wall-to-wall coverage supplies notoriety; investigative theatrics confirm importance. Even when institutions are doing their jobs, the public spectacle can function like applause. The line doesn’t excuse the criminal; it indicts a culture that converts violence into narrative and narrative into status.

Context matters: as an entertainer, Brown’s voice sits close to true-crime media, where storytelling incentives are always tugging against responsibility. Her phrasing reads like a corrective aimed at audiences and producers as much as at criminology. It’s also a subtle warning about feedback loops: attention is not neutral. When a killer’s “aftermath” becomes a franchise - headlines, specials, press conferences - society may be inadvertently polishing the very lure that made the act feel powerful in the first place.