Crime History Quotes

The greatest and the most horrible crime that has ever been committed in the history of the whole world.

New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.

J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the '20s.

I'm a huge fan of mafia history - mostly the Italian mafia but also their associates, as well as Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang.

I’ve got no criminal record.

My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.

My pop did a little time.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.

My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

I was in trouble with the law from when I was real young.

I've consumed true crime since first discovering 'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi in a used bookstore at age 9 or 10 and staring in fascination and horror at the crime-scene photos in the middle.

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

What happened in Snowtown was repeated many times in history, in a big scale and a small scale.

The Australians are actually the worst of the criminals from the United Kingdom, but not worst as in toughest. They're the ones who did stupid little things and got caught for it. Bad criminals.

If you look at my rap sheet, it's very long.

Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.

The FBI was formed because the gangsters were better armed, better financed.

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.

I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.

The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.