This introductory chapter establishes the foundation of the book and presents its central research question: What are the stories told by intimate femicide perpetrators across Latin America about the crimes they have committed? And why do they matter? It situates the book within the broader context of the increasing visibility of violence against women in the region and globally—alongside the expansion of both academic and fictionalised literature on the subject. Despite this growing body of work and public interest, there remains a reluctance to engage with the rationalities of the men who commit these crimes and, more specifically, to understand their narratives within broader cultural and structural contexts. This chapter—and the book as a whole—addresses this gap by exploring interviews conducted with men convicted of intimate femicide in seven Latin American countries. Drawing on narrative criminology, this chapter underscores the importance of interrogating dominant discourses—from the context-effacing pathologisation of perpetrators to fatalist theories that reduce these men to mere automata of patriarchy—arguing that these frameworks often obscure the complex ways in which perpetrators construct their identities and position themselves within gendered power relations.