Quotes About Investigation

Jackass, jackass on the wall, where's the info on Hex Hall?

stubborn since he came into the world. He won't stop until he gets to the bottom of the burglaries and puts the offenders behind bars, no matter

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Hackie said, Reggie Wright Jr. told him (during a conversation at the Death Row studios in Tarzana) that the case against Snoop was destroyed when important evidence disappeared from the West Los Angeles Police Station. Wright seemed to imply that one of his friends on the LAPD had taken care of this for him, Hackie recalled.

They don't need the facts because they already know the truth—their common sense has spared them the effort of investigation or thought.

Smith, parts of your story don't match up with what we found

Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...

The Zodiac letters from 1978 on were driven to Sacramento in a cardboard box, and these letters have never been refrigerated, which, for letters going back - what? - 30 years almost is a must for DNA.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

In a dream world if I wasn't a scaredy cat, I'd work for the FBI or something like that. That's always been a dream of mine since I was a child, to work for the FBI or DEA or something cool like that.

I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

I am not one to seek simple causes.

The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

The president may have the raw constitutional power to, say, squelch an investigation or to pardon a close associate. But if he does so not to serve the public interest, but to serve his own, he surely could be removed from office, even if he has not committed a criminal act.

We never had a female predator surface in our investigation.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.