Quotes About Investigation

What makes journalist so fascinating, and biography so interesting [is] the struggle to answer that single question: 'What's he like?

You're thinking somebody came over here, in the middle of a Category 4 hurricane, caught Nelson in the den, whacked him in the head, dragged his body outside, tried to clean up the blood, and then ran off? Seriously?

A preconceived conclusion can exist and slant the findings toward that suspect.

I can't imagine who would be covering a hearing in a forgotten case in East Nowhere, Florida.

drug charge. When I asked Lonnie about it

Some of his transactions involved Ada policemen, specifically one Dennis Corvin, whom Gore described as a "primary supplier

Since the police knew who killed Debbie Carter, they helpfully informed Melvin Hett.

Twenty-two years later the case is even colder and the police have all but given up. Once we realized that they were getting nowhere, I vowed to try everything to find his killer.

What's on the high side?" Koane asked.

The site of the burned house was located, and the police found the remains of what appeared to be a jawbone. This was soon reported in the Ada Evening News.

ciudad más grande. Nueve años antes, Joe Radford, el comisario, solo era comisario adjunto, y como tal apenas había intervenido en la investigación del caso Yarber.

that there was no mud on his shoes and no tracks below him, so therefore he was probably hanging and dead when the rain began. Why was that important? Ultimately, it was not. The logistics of hanging oneself from a tree are not that simple.

If the video camera was loaded with a tape, it was never seen. If Detective Smith made a report of the interview, it was never produced in the legal proceedings that followed.

of the top lid opens slowly. Mercifully, there is no dead baby inside. Far from it. Vanessa pauses to study the collection of small wooden cigar boxes all sealed with a band of silver duct tape and for the most part stacked in rows. Sweat is dripping from her eyebrows and she tries to swipe at it with a forearm. Carefully

Denice Haraway was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. Her remains were found the following January by a hunter deep in the woods near the settlement of Gerty, in Hughes County, twenty-seven miles from Ada and far from any place that had been searched.

He presided over murder trials, studied forensics and knew more about the science than the experts, and, most importantly, he knew how much evidence was needed to convict. A helluva lot! Beyond a reasonable doubt. Far more than any low-paid cop had been able to find along his graveyard trail.

James Lee Burke or Michael Connelly.

Denny and Rooker were watching too. They had traced the North Carolina license plates on Mercer's car and done the background. They knew her name, recent employment history, current lodging at the Lighthouse Inn, publishing résumé, and partial ownership of the beach

The Chief's son is now the constable, so any investigation into your accident will go nowhere. It's all being covered up, as I'm sure you suspect. But Gritt knows the truth, and he thinks he has the evidence to prove it. That's why he wants to talk to you.

By chasing the wrong suspect, the police and prosecutors had allowed the real killer's trail to grow cold. He has yet to be found.

Don't play dumb. Something's up. A new case

were they killed in the house and their bodies dragged outside?

And what exactly was it that had been "collated"? Had all eight Casket Letters been scrupulously checked

Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing.