Quotes About Investigation

There is pattern but no logic in criminality. It is your task to cohere confusion, to bring order out of chaos.

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

It is by examining very bare, very dull, very unpromising things, that modern science has come to be what it is.

The House of Commons has inquired into most things, but has never had a committee on "the Queen". There is no authentic blue-book to say what she does. Such an investigation cannot take place; but if it could, it would probably save her much vexatious routine, and many toilsome and unnecessary hours.

Scientific curiosity hungers for a knowledge of causes; causes which are physical, and, if possible, measurable.

Though no one can, I think, pretend that science does not concern itself, and properly concern itself, with facts which are not to all appearance illustrations of law, it is undoubtedly true that for those who desire to extract the greatest pleasure from science, a knowledge, however elementary, of the leading principles of investigation and the larger laws of nature, is the acquisition most to be desired.

She studied the airline's frequent flier statement, detailing dates and points of departure and arrival far different from what she had been led to believe. She found certificates of deposit and money market accounts. For the most part, she was dispassionate

Don't be satisfied with the surface. Dig deeper; that's where the magic lies.

There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

By nature and avocation, Charlotte looked for trouble.

You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

It was an ugly day. It was an ugly room. Except for the body.

Can they, like get fingerprints from her neck? Can they catch the guy that way?" "This guy isn't an amateur. He probably used gloves." "How do you know he isn't an amateur, Sherlock?" "There's bruising on the left-hand knuckles, and on the sides of both hands. Probably would be on the right-hand knuckles, too, if we had them." "She hit him," Howie said. "She fought back.

Howie: "What if the whole thing was just an accident?" Jazz: "And what? Accidentally cut off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll take them with me…Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?

Jazz shook his head. "No. The fingers. Your average murderer doesn't mutilate a body like that. And he especially doesn't take trophies. But it's more than that. It's that he left one behind. He left the middle one behind." "Are you serious?" "Yeah. He literally gave the cops the finger. He's saying, 'Come and get me. Catch me if you can.' That's a serial killer." For

Dismissing without further investigation something that conflicts with what is already known is the very heart of rationality.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn't know that the emails she received - and, more obviously, the emails that she created, stored and sent with the server - would contain classified information.

The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.