Quotes About Forensics

Man near entrance is shot in the head at close range from behind. The other two, multiple stab wounds, genitals severed, other injuries. Also head and pubic hair ignited, shot, muzzle in mouth. Three bullets recovered, 45 calibre." Villani: "So you can't rule out an accident?

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

Many serial killers are pathological liars." ~Dr. Jack. Levin, Criminologist, Northeastern University, 2012

Henry Faulds, a Scottish physician, published the first scientific paper suggesting the use of fingerprints as an identification technique.

The day an organization realizes they've been hacked they'll hire a forensic team to analyze the network only to identify the reality that they were hacked months or years ago, they just didn't know it.

While dead men tell no tales, their corpses often speak volumes.

There was a severed head, and two soft white forearms, and two long legs from the knees down, all laid out on the tile floor, with the hideous cuts of the saw clearly visible. The faucet was running, and the water had filled the bathtub and overflowed onto the floor. The long, luxuriant black hair on the bloated head twined and floated in the water like an undulant knot of snakes.

suppose a murderer carries a torso away from the scene of the crime. What does he do with the leftover bones and internal organs once he's stripped off the skin? Actually I must confess that it only just occurred to me now that this sort of problem—the efficient management of crime-related waste products—might be called 'criminal economics.

Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'

In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.

The word 'autopsy' means, literally, 'to see for oneself.

The fingerprinting was nothing like on TV. Instead of ink, Claire had to press her fingers onto a filthy glass plate so the swirls could be digitized into a computer. Her swirls, apparently, were very faint. It took several tries.

not a bullet hole but a "ballistically induced aperture in the subcutaneous environment.

But before you can tell who someone was and how they died—and you won't always be able to tell—you start with the Big Four: sex, race, age, and stature. Whenever

If there isn't, the skull can literally burst, fracturing the cranium into numerous pieces, each about the size of a quarter.

Sitting just a foot or two away from a bloody body, Bill would soon find even himself overrun with flies, seeking any moist bodily fluids to feed on, any dark, damp orifices (including Bill's nostrils) to lay their eggs in. He quickly learned to wrap netting around his head to keep the flies out of his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

I can't give people back their loved ones. I can't restore their happiness or innocence, can't give back their lives the way they were. But I can give them the truth. Then they will be free to grieve for the dead, and then free to start living again. Truth like that can be a humbling and sacred gift for a scientist to give.

The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.

Wish all my corpses would do that.

If you look closely enough, there are bloodstains.

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.