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Quotes About Homicide

I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
~ Nathan Fillion
He did not have a particularly ruminative or philosophical bent—or at least he didn't think of himself in those terms. Perhaps, working day after day in a world of violence and blood and death, it was impossible not to grow philosophical with the passage of years. Maybe most other homicide cops spent a lot of time contemplating the dark side of human potential; maybe he wasn't the only one; he had no way of knowing; it wasn't the kind of thing most cops talked about.
~ Richard Paige
Bud grew irritated. "Now waitaminute, goddamnit—this isn't only about the girl. You dropped five bodies in two days. You think, what, Pitman can tell LAPD, Hey, it's all right, our civilian killed those dudes to protect our witness, and Northeast Homicide will let it go? You have to help straighten this out.
~ Robert Crais
In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.
~ Gregory S. Paul
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.
~ Saint Basil
HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.
~ Marcus Sakey
I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out information when I wasn't. I've got one advantage over a normal homicide detective, I expect it to be a monster. No one ever calls me in if it's just a stabbing, or a hit-and-run. I don't spend a lot of time trying to come up with nice, normal explanations. It means I get to ignore a lot of theories.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Homicide, or rather the homicide fantasy, is the engine that drives America's fascination with guns. Target shooters spend hour after hour
~ Erik Larson
They murdered him.
~ Robert Cormier
As I have reminded you time and time again, playing detective is dangerous and not for amateurs, and you are exactly that: a goddamn amateur when it comes to homicide investigation.
~ Robin Cook
Shallow graves took on a life of their own. And eventually, all bodies did what they were meant to do. Decay. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Disappearing back into the earth, until months later, a uniquely shaped depression was formed. The kind of hollow that any experienced homicide detective could look at and say, hey, betcha a body is buried there. The
~ Lisa Gardner
They met in the conference room. The official investigative team. Quincy thought. Two profilers one sheriff, a homicide sergeant, a volunteer tracker, and a thirteen-year-old girl. Definitely the most interesting team Quincy had ever seen assembled.
~ Lisa Gardner
Only a man off his trolley would consider riding around in a police car with Homicide. Homicide with psychic hunches.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
Just be careful," a Seattle homicide detective warned. "Maybe we'd better know where to find your dental records in case we need to identify you." I laughed, but the words were jarring; the black humor that would surround Ted Bundy evermore begun.
~ Ann Rule
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.
~ Star Jones
I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like, and that's why I became a prosecutor.
~ Robert Mueller
The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
~ Ann Rule
Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.
~ John Doolittle
One through the heart, one through the head. Then you know he's really dead.
~ Robert Muchamore
My primary concern is the area's crime stats. Half a dozen stabbings a week, not to mention the monthly shootings and annual homicide rate. Gang activity mostly, but predators are predators and as a middle-aged woman I'm not particularly intimidating.
~ Lisa Gardner
there are four kinds of homicide felonious excusable justifiable and praise worthy
~ Ambrose Bierce