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Quotes About Investigation

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology it's solved by people.
~ Patricia Cornwell
Smith's eyes traced
~ Unknown
Miss Silver's fire. 'Of course
~ Patricia Wentworth
Two seconds later, he bolted upright and turned to his sister with a big grin. "Hey! You know what this means? You and I are on our way to the scene of a murder!
~ Patrick Carman
I smell a rat.
~ Patrick Henry
Murphy interrupted. "Just one more question, Jeff. The medical examiner says he noticed flesh had been severed from the feet of the victims found in the blue drum. What about it?" Dahmer knowingly nodded. "Well, the flesh on the bottom of the feet is extremely tough. I found that by cutting off the sole and heel, it was easier for the muriatic acid to work on the bones of the foot.
~ Unknown
Religious and civic leaders in the Black community held protests in front of Dahmer's apartment and called for a federal investigation into police education and training. The gay community also clamored for recognition of any current police practices and intimated that police failed to investigate these crimes properly because they didn't care if a few Blacks and/or gays went missing.
~ Unknown
The medical examiner had found what appeared to be the markings of a tenderizing instrument on the pieces of biceps and thigh. The markings corresponded with a wooden meat tenderizer recovered from the scene. The paper-thin cuts of individually wrapped heart and liver made it look as though he was storing the "food" for later use.
~ Unknown
we seek to understand, not necessarily to find a complete and final solution.
~ Unknown
Department of Justice concluded its investigation without so much as interviewing any member of the family. The authorities were so deferential toward the Sacklers that nobody had even bothered to question them.
~ Unknown
What the hell do you call that?" I asked him quietly. "Firefog?" "We could," he responded. "Kilvin would probably call it an atmospherically enhanced incendiary action.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The same curiosity that made me such an eager student also led me into trouble with fair regularity.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Perhaps it is human nature to seek out hidden things".
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What of that bar you told me about – Dago Mike's? Someone there might know something. We could go there and question them vigorously." "You mean beat on them until someone talked.
~ Unknown
Question everything.
~ Patti Smith
He who fails to question is asking for trouble.
~ Unknown
We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.
~ Unknown
It'll take weeks of grunt work and potentially lead nowhere," said Quill. "Excellent: that sounds like police work to me.
~ Unknown
Pity,' said Costain. 'I've always wanted to be working on a case where the dots on a map formed a pattern.
~ Unknown
since I got here I've had a bit of a look for where the music's coming from, and I can't find it. And I have the nose of a bloodhound. In my pocket.
~ Unknown
MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.
~ Paul Ekman
The behavioral clues in face, body, voice, and manner of speaking are not signs of lying per se. They may be signs of emotions that don't fit with what is being said. Or they may be signs that the suspect is thinking about what he is saying before he says it. They are flags marking areas which need to be explored.
~ Paul Ekman
all you need to do is consult an 1872 congressional hearing on the Klan quixotically entitled Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. The multi-volume document makes scary reading, even now.
~ Unknown
the question falls within the penumbra of the detective's expertise.
~ Paul Levine