Quotes About Investigation

Falsehood and error arise, not from our perceptions, but from the conclusions to which we jump about things which have not yet been established as true; in such cases further investigation may not confirm our first opinions, and may even disprove them. . . .

Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere... Nope, no weapons over there... Maybe under here.

Whereas in its developments up to the present psychology has dealt chiefly with psychic processes in the light of physical causation, the future task of psychology will be the investigation of their spiritual determinants. But the natural history of the mind is no further advanced today than was natural science in the thirteenth century. We have only begun to take scientific note of our spiritual experiences.

The headless trunk was discovered impaled on a metal fencepost on the edge of the town park.

I know Edmond Locard's Principle, the central theory of modern forensic crime-scene investigation: something is always left behind.

Are you on the scene?

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two sharp brown eyes surveyed the room like drive-by shooters.

any more about it?" Joe asked.

like to see Clay McCann thrown in prison because he doesn't like the idea of a man getting away with murder in his state, despite the weird legal circumstances of this one.

undersheriff

Larry Olson, the only other detective in the five-man Criminal Investigations Division whom Cody thought was worth a damn. Olson was short, solid, and shaved bald; a flesh-colored fire hydrant who entered a room like a quiet exclamation point.

Cody put his cup in the saucer and lowered his voice. "When I talked to you earlier you said something about this not being the first time some girls came up missing around here. Care to expound on that topic a little?" Legerski paused and looked into Cody with well-practiced, all-seeing cop eyes. Searching Cody for something. Cody just looked back, squinting through the smoke of his third cigarette since he'd walked in.

She swallowed the last of her cup of decaf and leaned forward to her laptop and keyed in the passwords for ViCAP—one for the department, one for her personally—and followed the prompts and she was in.

back in the seventies four women were killed. Librarians....

In any investigation, what are the most relevant circumstances? None," he would bark in reply. "All the circumstances are relevant, everything must be examined from every angle!

example, need to focus on doing serious journalism—diving into complicated

Even old ideas require new investigation to underscore their continued relevance.

Sometimes to go deep, you must first go big.

troubled than my own—had fallen off a Boston boat and drowned. A lengthy autopsy revealed what I could have

marks Marcus had originally thought to be left by pitons at that site were therefore made by something else, probably something altogether unconnected to our case).

To clear up a murder you must do your own killing

momento que era imposible que su hija se hubiese suicidado. Y sentía curiosidad por saber qué

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?