He threw himself to his knees at the stone and tore his damning testimony from the pages of its testament. He held the only evidence of his identity in his hand and in one motion...

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I’d like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little...

A pawn only needs to move five spaces to become the queen” – from Bhendi Bazaar

interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014).In the foreword to your book you mention a book titled Satan’s Silence was...

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

It had been more or less the same for Jilly. Except that she had her parents there to field any phone calls, to accept the flowers at the door and pick up the cards that...

The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.

Kalian ingin menghentikan kriminalitas tetapi tidak tahu apa-apa tentang dunia kriminal? Itu naïf namanya.

We assassinate. We don’t accessorize. But I understand how it is possible to confuse the two.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask – What’s the best way to deal with this individual kid? – is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the...

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.

Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.

Bush violated FISA […] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general ‘principle’ that he was not bound by the law, to show that he has the power to break...

Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.

I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive.” Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered “a crime,...

It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if...

Then headed for the kitchen.Fuck.I headed through the lounge……just as two indistinct pitch-black masses, Kevlar laden, shotguns raised, crept ninja-like through the front door. This time, I didn’t even get a bellowed warning. The lead...

The ability of one to affect many is scaling exponentially — and it’s scaling for good and it’s scaling for evil.

Do you know a Psychopath?You do not know me; but after reading my memoir you will know me a little better and you will have had the experience of safely getting into the mind and...

The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is caught in miniature. The genius of the artist entangles perpetrators and victims in a sticky web of perverse delights, in which exploitation...

In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.

…people demonize certain types of crime – it’s a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters…

Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.

In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler’s or Newton’s discoveries could become known to people in no other way than by sacrificing the lives of one, or ten, or a hundred...

Many who resort to crime ultimately can’t read or write.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

At night in the town’s countryside, you could just about feel and hear everything, but without using lamps, it was impossible to see anything other than shadows

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if...

Too many young Indigenous members of our community are being caught up in the criminal justice system, with an increasing number of cases resulting in notably unjust and undue outcomes, primarily due to the lack...

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves...

I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summer to Switzerland and lock up his house, some burglar came and broke window...

– To pieprzeni Cyganie, Kuba. Nikt ci tego głośno nie powie, ale nastawienie jest takie, że jednego Cygana mniej, to jeden problem mniej. Zaginęła jedenastoletnia dziewczynka, a wszyscy, wszyscy mają to, kurwa, w dupie. – Policjant uderzył pięścią...

All I can really say is it’s bloodier than hell. In this one I’m going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

The one ring, to rule them all’? Sounds very far-fetched to me!

I’m convinced that most men don’t know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man’s atrocities, but wouldn’t dream of imprisoning a mother for...

Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent crime. Violence requires all different kinds of energy, and most drug addicts like to expend their energy not on...

A real criminal mastermind isn’t known as a criminal mastermind, because how good can you be if you’re a known criminal? No, a real criminal mastermind is known by another name: politician.

in your face I seem to read some trouble of mind. When you came in I read it, and that was why I addressed you at once. For in unfolding to you the story of...

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for...

Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture; A pale blue eye with a film over it.

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner...

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.