Quotes About Crime

In the above-captioned case, the motive or original intent of the UNSUB was burglary of cash and/or other valuables. With the unexpected appearance of one of the residents of the house, the crime devolved into a homicide. The motivation was both sexual opportunism and the need to eliminate the only witness.

Modus operandi, or M.O., encompasses those actions necessary to accomplish the crime.

Signature refers to those elements that make the crime emotionally satisfying or fulfilling to the offender, such as binding or torture, photographs, humiliation

The perpetration of the primary felony burglary is organized and methodical, strongly suggesting criminal sophistication and experience. It is the unexpected introduction of one of the house residents to the crime in progress that quickly shifts the crime scene to a disorganized presentation.

It is scientifically impossible for one offender to leave extensive DNA evidence and for others involved in the same assault to leave none.

I'm afraid so," said Pendergast. "The body, it appears, has been buttered and sugared.

Have you ever read The Hollow Man, by John Dickson Carr?

Encuentre al hombre que hizo esto," she said

Lieutenant D'Agosta

We don't just look for dead bodies. That day, we were actually looking for a cache of heroin somebody'd thrown off a bridge.

All indications are that burglar/murderer Rudy Guede was a police informant.

On the evening of November 1, 2007—All Saints' Day—Rudy Guede climbed a wall, used a rock to break a second-floor window under cover of darkness and forced his way into a small house on Perugia's Via della Pergola where Meredith Kercher lived with three other women who, because of the holiday, were not present at the time.

It is easier to commit murder than to justify it.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Ha a történet már-már unalomba fullad, mindig feldobja pár liter vér. Mrs. Oliver

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let's review the menu. Robbery? Frogery? No, I think not. Rather too vegetarian. It must be murder—red-blooded murder—with trimmings, of course.

The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.

One cannot be interested in crime without being interested in psychology. It is not the mere act of killing, it is what lies behind it that appeals to the expert.

Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.

Murder, I have often noticed, is a great matchmaker.