Cold Cases Quotes

“Twenty-five years is a long time in cop years.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“Law gave us Crime
Science gave us Forensics
Research gave us Hope”
― Sofie Claerhout, Dader Onbekend

“Oh Mrs. Churchill, do come over. Someone has killed father." - Lizzie Borden, August 4, 1892”
― Lizzie Borden

“Some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved — they’re meant to haunt us.”
― Yahya Ayman, 20 Unsolved Mysteries: True Crime Cases That Will Keep You Up at Night

“Joe “Hunt” Gamsky still purports to be a devotee of Yogananda and is visited occasionally by members of Ananda Church of Self-Realization. I wonder, if they or anyone ever asks Joe how it felt to strangle poor little Richard Mayer; Or how he feels about getting away with that now?”
― Randall Sullivan, The Price of Experience

“Brooke Roberts (Joe Hunt’s longtime beard “front” gf) made the comment that she could not figure out why Joe would get out of bed every morning, totally nude, go striding into Dean's bedroom and stay in there for an hour.”
― Randall Sullivan, The Price of Experience

“Joe Hunt said he just kept shooting, a lot of times. He said that at one point Ron Levin's brain jumped out of his skull and fell on his chest. Joe seemed like he thought that was kind of neat in a weird way, as if it had surprised him. He was very casual when he was telling me all of this, matter-of-fact, except when he laughed about the brain.”
― Randall Sullivan, The Price of Experience: Money, Power, Image, and Murder in Los Angeles

“When he came out to the prison yard early that first morning, I was struck by how forgettable he looked. Short and bald, he shuffled along like any old tired man trying to make it through the day. No one would have guessed what he had done. But I knew.”
― William A. Noguera, Through the Lens of a Monster: A Serial Killer on Death Row, an Unsolved Murder List, and an Inmate’s Deadly Play for Redemption

“On that rainy morning, something inside Naso cracked open. He started talking—in vivid detail, sometimes in fragments, sometimes out of order. . . . The portraits of his victims emerged slowly, one by one. And what they revealed will haunt me forever.”
― William A. Noguera, Through the Lens of a Monster: A Serial Killer on Death Row, an Unsolved Murder List, and an Inmate’s Deadly Play for Redemption