Quotes About Investigation

It was the biggest investigation ever conducted, for a single crime, in U.S. history." Several

the FBI's search for MLK's killer began, a manhunt that would become the largest in American history

In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble

After consulting census books, cemetery records, city directories, and various other documents, he definitively established that the story the dying Carlson told about her background was true in every detail. She was not Belle Gunness.[

The best estimate of experts like James Alan Fox of the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University is that, at any given time, there are two to three dozen serial killers at large in the country, responsible for the deaths of between one and two hundred victims.

According to the FBI, a serial killer is anyone who murders three or more victims with a significant interval of time between each homicide.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

Study men, not historians.

I was never more sure of anything. He's as innocent as you and I. So that's my word. You go out of here. Go find some honest cop, tell him what I've told you. Tell him to find Tino Gonsmart. Tell him that a guy named Alex Luxtro doesn't want the case reopened. If that doesn't scare him so bad he runs, then you got yourself the man." "Are

I buried my father, married my sister and sorted the missing will. ' Quinn, the Celebrant Sleuth

She didn't turn but ran down the length of the beach, searching the sand and the water, looking for any hint as to where the body had been moved. "What, Alex?" Jay shouted. "You saw a corpse, but it rolled down the beach to catch the sun better?" She stopped then, whirling around. "It's moved," she said, walking back to where Jay stood. "Your corpse got up and walked?

think back to the first case with the white horse, and finding the woman crucified in the Everglades. I think about putting away a bad guy, and then receiving the little red horse when we were vacationing before.

Everybody has their field. My field is the muktiple murderer.

Everybody has their field. My field is the multiple murderer.

Lawrence Sanders

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

Of course it is. Likes are power," Mintner said, and looked at Eve. "You know what I'm saying. Isn't that how you became a homicide detective?

and listened to one of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch crime novels. Bosch was an LAPD detective who, over a thirty-year career that spanned about as many books, solved one major murder after another and yet his bosses still doubted his skill and integrity, regularly undermined his work, and repeatedly investigated him for misconduct. It frustrated her even more than it did him. His problem, she thought, was that he didn't know how to play politics.

You sound very confident, Teddy," Duncan said. "Is that because you tossed the rape kit or altered the case number so it would never be found?

The point of an interrogation is not to get a confession. A successful interrogation, Duncan once told Eve, is when you walk out of the room with any information, no matter how small, that advances the investigation.

It disturbed Eve, though, that Claire believed that a young female detective would be more motivated than a man to investigate the sexual assault of a woman. Was there any merit to that belief?

Nobody would ever take the time to analyze forensic evidence in the theft of frozen Jimmy Dean sausages from an office break room.

I've given you a fucking road map to the asshole who shot me and killed Kim and you want to talk about Raylene? Do your job.

do it because the victim deserves a cop who will work the case instead of one who is more intent on figuring out how some poor bastard who got shot four times in the back, and got dumped on the jurisdictional line, can be written off as a suicide.