Quotes About Investigation

The British knew it. The navy knew it. The FBI knew it.

We think this murder, Evelyn Boggs, and the Linklater homicide are all connected to Bennett Brice.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Las mujeres sienten curiosidad sin mezcla, su mente es indagatoria y chismosa (...) no saben que los actos se cometen solos o que los pone en marcha una sola palabra, necesitan probar, no prevén, quizá ellas sí están dispuestas a saber casi siempre, no se acuerdan que después de saber todo cambia a veces

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

uno nunca sale ligero ni indemne de las averiguaciones. Me

gentlemen, you are, as i am, in search of a woman who, must have passed this way, for i see a corpse.

Homicide at its best stinks to high heaven because everyone walking this earth has a closet he'd prefer leaving closed and homicide rarely knocks before entering.

They were running out of suspects and into dead ends. They were running into airtight alibis and out of patience. They were running up one-way alleys and phone bills. They were running down a killer who did not yet exist. They were running around in circles.

I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.

why was Weeks virtually

You see you left a little thumb print, and we are rather whales on thumb prints at Scotland Yard, Fisher.

Edgar Wallace

But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . .

I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew; it tends to set the reader himself in the track of invention, and to direct him into those paths in which the author has made his own discoveries, if he should be so happy as to have made any that are valuable.

Do you have any idea who you've been dealing with? This is big-time! Interstate! Federal! You're not in a precinct, are you? This goes way beyond you! This goes deep! We've been on to this guy for a long time, Shaka. The Virginia Mafia! Nobody fucks with them! We've got him in a room down the hall--this guy gave up his own sister! You're lucky you got out alive!

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

The historian, like any other scientist, is an animal who incessantly asks the question: Why?

Boy, are you fuckin' those worms again?

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

John Wayne Gacy is obsessively fond of defending his innocence, which is imaginary. On March 12, 1980, he was convicted in Chicago of killing thirty-three boys. The murders took place between 1972 and 1978, when he was caught and arrested. No one else in America has ever been convicted of killing so many people. Twenty-seven of the bodies were buried in a crawl space beneath the house where Gacy lived,

The morale of the Metropolitan Police Force had reached its lowest point during the Ripper murders of the previous year and had not yet recovered. The files of the Whitechapel murders had not been closed as the case was still ongoing, but nobody in London trusted the police to do their job.

Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.