Vincent Bugliosi Quotes

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

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.

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

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

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

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

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

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.

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

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

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'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'

Every true-crime thing you see goes in with that kind of ominous music and low lighting, so to be able to talk about these things but not have to feel somber about it and not feel guilty that you're not feeling somber about it - I think that's what appeals to me.

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

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

Once upon a time there was a physicality to the business of investigating a serious crime. There were objects, pieces of paper, even good old-fashioned fingerprints. Today it's different. Because all of us are routinely and voluntarily giving the intimate details of our lives to all kinds of people whether we realize it or not.

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.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is the maturing of a college boy, you may never stumble across a story while you're telling that. But if your story is a college boy dead in his dorm room, you know there's a story in there, someplace.