79 Quotes About Investigation

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

Expect to be blatantly harassed by the local utility company and corporate controlled law enforcement departments when investigating utility fraud.

A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.

Our effort was mocked by some police supervisors: has the computer caught Ted yet?

Our inexperience was telling, and it favored the killer.

We needed an over-confident Ted, not a defensive Ted, because overconfidence breeds mistakes, and that’s just what we needed our Ted to make in order catch him.

If it can be said that serial killers, through the control they exert and the terror they spread, make victims of the entire communities—families and loved ones, the police who track them, and the general public who must live in fear—then in his own way, Dave wasa victim of the Green River killer, just as I became one of Ted Bundy’s victims.

Years ago I read about a psychiatrist who said, ‘If you could only photograph everybody who came out of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you would have a mug book of all the active violent offenders against women in that particular area.

There’s no understanding the power of a mother, of Zana in particular, because she was the only one who didn’t swallow the story of the English bank. When a son’s fate is at stake, no detective in the world can find more clues than a mother.