Quotes About Investigation

I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I met men whose lawyers had never looked into their backgrounds.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

You don't need a brilliant sleuth like Sherlock Holmes to figure out that the claims of Trump-Russia collusion were false. The bumbling Inspector Clouseau could have figured it out.

I think a lot of police procedurals are very conventional. With the stuff I'm doing, I'm trying to approach the institution of the police in a different way.

I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

It's always interesting exploring something that has dimensions and layers to it.

The long, forensic interview really matters.

You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

At a witch trial in 1593, the investigating lawyer (a married man) apparently discovered a clitoris for the first time; [he] identified it as a devil's teat, sure proof of the witch's guilt.

Notably, in 2012 Attkisson, a courageous award-winning investigative journalist, was severely attacked in the media for "promoting pseudoscientific theories about an alleged link between autism and vaccines.

traces blood.

Roiters said, "I always felt that the kid had blood on his hands.

Two days?" Decker looked at

slightly agape, the hair pulled off the face. The woman appeared to be around forty. Even without benefit of color, he had seen enough postmortem photos to know what he was studying. "Rina

De strigis vero, quae non sunt, nulla quaestio fiat (Sobre las brujas, ya que no existen, no se harán indagaciones).

Magic" was not an answer; it was an excuse to avoid looking for one.

For a tiny instant Faith wondered whether it would benefit the doctor's investigation if he experienced a cliff fall first-hand.

She had a murder to find, and an island to frighten. Frightened people sometimes made mistakes, and it was a good day to be a ghost.

She had a murderer to find, and an island to frighten.

We first knew something was up when the construction chief pulled out a stethoscope and started listening to the wall.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.