192 Quotes About True-crime

Police reports read like stories told by robots. They’re terse and demarcated, with little space for judgment or emotion.

When my family goes to sleep, I time travel and reframe stale evidence using twenty-first-century technology

While all murders are tragic, not all murders are interesting to write about.

He was a compulsive prowler and searcher. We, who hunt him, suffer from the same affliction. He peered through windows. I tap "return," Return. Click Mouse click, mouse click.

I want to know more about true, complete people, not dirty scraps of humans.

Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.

Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the contours of despair.

People generally err in regarding policemen as either saints or crooks. They are at neither extreme. They are people.

It wasn't just Adnan being indicted at this grand jury proceeding, it wasn't just him being prosecuted. His faith, his ethnicity, his community--they were all on trial.