Leslie Jordan Quotes

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

The most common things I would go out for would be, like, 'the Lab Technician' on a crime procedural, usually an expert in either a medical or a computer-oriented field.

I was pretty serious about pursuing forensic science as a profession. In fact, I pursued an internship at the office of the chief medical examiner here in New York.

Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.

Everyone is doing forensics.

I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.

I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

If I see one more forensics show, I'm gonna throw up.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other writers who know a lot more than me about it. I know enough about it to do a little bit of background on laboratory techniques and stuff. But it kind of bores me.

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.

The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

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

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.