Quotes About Homicide
Homicide detectives were to medical examiners what four-year-old children were to overworked mothers.
~ Tami Hoag
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In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.
~ Rosecrans Baldwin
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The trial of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has kept me fascinated and shocked in equal measure. But like many women, I was relieved this week when he was found guilty of culpable homicide after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
~ Katie Piper
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Neighbors were divided on the question of whether Mrs. Braden had been excessive in her reaction. Witnesses agreed that Jesse had been a prodigious sinner, and often conducted himself in a manner that invited homicide. The shooting itself was not so much at issue as Mrs. Braden's selection of anatomical targets. The men in the crowd, sober and otherwise, felt that the mere spilling of an alcoholic beverage--and subsequent insensitive laughter--failed to justify three bullets through the penis.
~ Carl Hiaasen
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Constable Shoe,' said Constable Shoe, when the door of the bootmaker's factory was opened. 'Homicide.' 'You come 'bout Mister Sonky?' said the troll who'd opened the door. Warm damp air blew out into the street, smelling of incontinent cats and sulphur. 'I meant I'm a zombie,' said Reg Shoe. 'I find that telling people right away saves embarrassing misunderstandings later on. But coincidentally, yes, we've come about the alleged deceased.
~ Terry Pratchett
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Ordinary citizens can encounter violence at their jobs to the point that homicide is now the leading cause of death for women in the workplace.
~ Gavin de Becker
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Matter is the most passive and most defenseless essence in cosmos. Anyone can mold it and shape it; it obeys everybody. All attempts at organizing matter are transient and temporary, easy to reverse and to dissolve. There is no evil in reducing life to other and newer forms. Homicide is not a sin.
~ Bruno Schulz
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The maintenance of secrecy in the matter, the confining all knowledge of it for a time to the place where the homicide occurred, the quarter-deck cabin; in these particulars lurked some resemblance to the policy adopted in those tragedies of the palace which have occurred more than once in the capital founded by Peter the Barbarian.
~ Herman Melville
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Same green walls. Same table. Same roster of death due to malice, melancholy, folly or fate. Morin did the honours. A dealer, held and punched by two rivals, dropped to the sidewalk and never got up. Probable homicide by rotation and hyperextension of the head. A man noosed his neck to a tree and hit the gas in his pickup. Probably suicide by self-decapitation. A meth addict slept naked on his balcony and froze to death. Probably accident by supreme stupidity.
~ Kathy Reichs
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Homicide investigations are about people
~ Camilla Lackberg
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So...have you ever thought about dyeing your hair punk-rocker-chick black? As I'm sure you've heard, I have a thing for brunettes and always avoid blondes." "I've heard. And no." "Too bad. Because you're making me rethink my stance about doing my friends' exes." I snorted, not even trying to hide my...incredulity? Surely I wasn't amused. "Your making me rethink my stance on cold-blooded homicide
~ Gena Showalter
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In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
~ Gennaro F. Vito
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
~ Nathan Fillion
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Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.
~ Vito Fossella
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San Francisco averaged a homicide rate of 49 per 100,000 between 1849 and 1856, six times the 1997 homicide rate
~ Kevin Starr
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As the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reported in its study of the racial implications of the law, the criminal justice system is "ten times more likely" to rule a homicide justifiable "if the shooter is white and the victim black" than if an African American kills someone white and claims self-defense. 32 In fact, the report notes, stand-your-ground laws actually worsen and increase the racial disparity outcomes of self-defense claims. 33
~ Carol Anderson
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Yeah, probably. Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow.
~ J.D. Robb
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We have a Homicide, and a Code Five in number Eighteen-oh-three.
~ J.D. Robb
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Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow." "I'm thinking a T-shirt.
~ J.D. Robb
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We're all-inclusive in Homicide, 'cause whatever your race, color, or creed, you can get dead.
~ J.D. Robb
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And he was not surprised that the mahmen was the one who'd woman'd up. After however many years in homicide, he had learned about the differences between the sexes. Men were physically stronger, true. But the women? They were the warriors. As much as those males who had come with her would have run into a burning building to save her, not one of them was strong enough to take her place for this heartbreaking duty. Because they couldn't handle it. "All
~ J.R. Ward
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
~ Larry Elder
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You have very little rape experience. Now, here we have a rope homicide
~ Nelson DeMille
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Survival is a strong instinct, surrender is not an option, and all combat is justifiable homicide. But you pay a price.
~ Nelson DeMille
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