192 Quotes About True-crime

The unknown is scary. It’s unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.

Soon it will be different. Soon there will be a night when we’re in my car and she’s screaming, raging, stabbing herself in the arm with a knife she’s pulled from her purse. Blood all over her, me and the dashboard. Me tearing up my shirt to bind her arm with. Her crying and saying she’s sorry. Everything being different, and then there being nothing between us.

The Corrupt Officer has a Price and the Honest Officer has Integrity

Although the journalists anticipated violence, several had predicted shouted abuse. But when the crowd caught sight of the murderers, with their escort of blue-coated highway patrolmen, it fell silent, as though amazed to find them humanly shaped.

Why did that one friend scoot her chair away from me when I told her I “empathized but didn’t sympathize” with every woman in this book? I don’t think our obsession stems from the fact that we are all secretly violent, using the serial killer to enact our darkest fantasies. I think it comes from our enduring love of stories.

The truth, of course, was much weirder: I was foregoing a fancy Hollywood party to return not to my sleeping infant but my laptop, to excavate through the night in search of information about a man I'd never met, who'd murdered people I didn't know.

Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, now matter the time or place.

The nights were advantageous, too. After they kissed their families goodnight, it was expected that they would share a bed, their bodies close, their movements obscured under the covers.