Quotes About Murder

Trouble is, you're just as dead if you're knifed by a self-dramatizing twat as by a professional.

Edie was a friend of mine and Mariam's,' said Preston Pierce in a low growl. 'Her murder isn't exciting fucking goss to us. Why don't you stop pretending you wanna learn drawing and go sniff around in the cemetery? Might still be a bit of Edie's blood on the grass. You could frame it. Sell it on eBay.

Robert Galbraith

The only other funeral she'd attended had been four years previously, when she and Strike had attended the cremation of a murdered girl in the course of their first murder investigation,

The elderly occupant was bent almost double in an armchair beside the window. In the minute that had elapsed since the nurse left him, he'd fallen fast asleep. Robin let the door close quietly behind her, crept across to Ricci and sat down on the end of his single bed, facing the one-time pimp, pornographer and orchestrator of gang-rape and murder.

Strike read how Chiswell the corrupt capitalist had been murdered by the Russian mafia after failing to pay back interest on some seedy, illegal transaction, while Chiswell the defender of solid English values had been dispatched by vengeful Islamists after his attempts to resist the rise of sharia law.

Robert Goldsborough

Soul murder, the psychiatrists call it, the sexual violation of children. Unimaginably small boys. Boys whose heads do not reach to their father's waists. Girls who are no more than infants. Boys and girls whose lives are ineradicably violated. Whose trust and innocence are lost to them forever. (208)

Countries with hot climates suffer higher murder rates and more political violence; more violent crimes occur in hot years;

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

There is no such thing as the person who at age thirty-five suddenly changes from being perfectly normal and erupts into totally evil, disruptive, murderous behavior. The behaviors that are precursors to murder have been present and developing in that person's life for a long, long time- since childhood.

Robert K. Ressler

began making his confession in the early hours of December 22, 1978, claiming that, since 1972, he had killed approximately 25 to 30 young men. He said that he either forced the victims into his car

Gacy would later state that he experienced an orgasm while stabbing McCoy. "That's when I realized that death was the ultimate thrill," he added.

Beverley's nude body lay in plain view, her legs splayed, a nylon stocking and two handkerchiefs woven together and knotted around her neck. The cause of death wasn't strangulation though, she'd been stabbed 22 times.

Except for shooting folks in the face and cutting off ears, the lanky killer had impeccable manners.

A man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.

A lawyer caught in the toils of a murder case is like a man newly fallen in love: his involvement is total.

he ripped out Eldred's throat in one fell bat swoop, and

We fought.' 'A duel?' 'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it.

We are all potential Dominicis, not as murderers but as accused, deprived of language, or worse, rigged out in that of our accusers, humiliated and condemned by it. To rob a man of his language in the very name of language: this is the first step in all legal murder.

Voler son langage à un homme au non même du langage, tous les meurtres légaux commencent par là.

dark, with a mustache and a deep, resonant voice. In Kamel's opinion, Sadat wore "eccentric clothes"—a dark gray suit, a red-checked waistcoat, and an especially notable pair of white leather shoes, quite an outfit for a man on the run. Sadat immediately understood how he could employ Kamel's little "murder society," as he called it. Shooting a handful of British soldiers

to Reacher's desk. It said Gunshot victim previously reported was LTC Caroline C. Crawford. DOA inside POV