Tom Robbins Quotes

Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.

When your blood is found at the murder scene, that's the end of the ball game, there's nothing more to say.

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

no one bears witness for the witness

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

There's a small possibility that I might be a murder suspect" Stephanie

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

I had not seen that until - and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence.

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.

'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.

Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.

Catching a culprit becomes really easy when there are video footages from the crime scene.

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.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

You can't really dust for vomit.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

I thought that the behavioral and some of the profiling stuff was interesting. The thing that I was most interested in, and the thing that we were really adament about, was let's get these guys who were there on tape, or in some kind of way, telling what happened. No one has really talked to them all.

One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars?

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

After we made love he took a piece of chalk and made an outline of my body.

The last time I saw a blonde with red streaks in her hair she was laying on Oscar Pistorius' bathroom floor.