Caitlin Kittredge Quotes

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

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

Everyone is doing forensics.

I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.

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.

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

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

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

'Forensic Files' is amazing! I love it! There were marathons happening all the time in college. That show, because it's always on at night, was always better than any scary movie I could put on, because it was 'real.'

I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days.

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

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.

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.

I am more into things like CSI, but then Glee started and I was like, "Oh this is different."

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 forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

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

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

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

I wasn't a regular, avid 'Bones' fan, but I'd certainly seen it. I liked the banter; I liked the people and that world.

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

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.

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

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.

There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.