Michael Baden Quotes

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

I've thought from the start that a parallel federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown is important. I also believe that our state and local elected officials have been given a responsibility by the people who they work for to get to the bottom of this tragedy.

My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.

And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

People often ask me what happened to my first husband? And I say, I killed him.

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

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

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

There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.

There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!

...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

The hardest mysteries to solve are the ones you come to near the end, because there isn't enough evidence, not enough to unravel, unless somehow you can go all the way back to the beginning - rewind and replay everything.

Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?