Forensic Evidence Quotes

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

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

The physical evidence does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda. Physical evidence does not look away as events unfold nor does it blackout or add to memory. It remains constant and is a solid foundation upon which cases are built.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

Bluebeard, who said to Scottland Yard, How do I know how many wives I've killed? I'm not an accountant! Never got a dinner!

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public's need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

I once started a detective story to make money—but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was still describing the characters and the milieu, so I thought, this is not going to work. No corpse!

Everything has to do with murder.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.

Nobody makes a turd like that and lives.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.