- [an elderly woman was shot hanging out her wash]
- Narrator: When the murder weapon was found in sixteen-year-old Linwood's house, his lack of remorse for the death of the elderly neighbor was shocking.
- Himself - Journalist: His response, according to documents, was, "Well, she was gonna die anyway."
- Narrator: But despite appearances, Linwood and James had taken all their cunning and ruthlessness with them to death row.
- Himself - Author, Life on Death Row in America: Linwood had a kind of magnetism to him. They wanted to please him, even the guards, and then people were scared of James.
- Narrator: Richmond was in the middle of an unprecedented brutal crime spree.
- Himself - Journalist: Oh, they were very out of the ordinary. VERY out of the ordinary. You know, they hadn't seen carnage like this since probably the Civil War.
- Narrator: Robbery, rape, murder - no one seemed safe.
- [last lines]
- Herself - Family Friend & Friend of 'Johnny G': The family that slayed together stayed together.
- Himself - Family Friend & Friend of 'Johnny G': Yeah.
- Herself - Family Friend & Friend of 'Johnny G': May they all rot in hell.
- Linwood Earl Briley: I, of course, chose to escape because I'm innocent, and if you're innocent, I believe that you're supposed to be free.
- Himself - Forensic Psychologist: They were highly predatory. They weren't targeting a group of guys who may have had a weapon, no. You know, they were targeting weak and vulnerable people like a snake would target a mouse.
- Himself - Journalist: When this broke, um, I just thought "Holy Moly." Well, that's not what I thought. You know what I thought.
- Himself - Author, Life on Death Row in America: It seemed to a certain point that their family life was... unconventional, normal, and then when they reached their teenage years, something changed, and there seemed to be... I don't know... there certainly seemed to be a lack of empathy.
- Himself - Author, Life on Death Row in America: You just start to see these glimmers - like James and Linwood's father would sleep with a lock on his door at night
- Narrator: [on the parents, James Sr and Bertha, protecting themselves from their sons] He padlocked his own bedroom at night because he feared that they might do something to them. That's very very rare. Most parents feel that they have control over their kids, um - even if their kids are acting out in very aggressive and violent ways - they usually don't feel personally threatened by them. Briley's father did. I think that speaks volumes just to how deviant, uh, the three brothers were.
- Himself - Forensic Psychologist: If the Briley brothers were killing or stealing to gain something as their primary motive, that's at least understandable, but it seems to me, as I look at this, that their main motivation was just to kill and destroy, where robbery was actually secondary. They functioned like a street gang - a street gang that had gone amok.