True Crime Story Quotes

“Feeding hundreds of unfortunate people a week, improving the lives of thousands. It was nothing to him if he didn’t get to stand on stage taking credit for it. I said, ‘You’re right, Robert. Frankly, I’m not sure there even is a Nolan Foundation without someone from the Nolan family involved. Certainly not one I’d want to be a”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“All I saw was a room full of people who’d betrayed my daughter and betrayed me. I said I should burn the place down for all the good it had done.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“Because I started to see how much Andrew and Kim must have hated me, too, how personal it had always been. They let the whole world believe I might have had something to do with that tape leaking, when they knew all along that it was never on the laptop Zoe gave me, because she didn’t film it, she wasn’t even in it. She found out about it at exactly the same time I did.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“He told me that I could, quote, ‘Get fucked,’ since that’s clearly what I was so good at.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“Perhaps, Kimberly, it’s not a feeling of inadequacy you’ve always struggled with. Perhaps what we’re looking at here is plain inadequacy, perhaps what we’re staring in the face is the fact that you’re not good enough, the fact that you don’t even come close to Zoe.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“And after it all came out, I did what I could to limit the damage. Once I knew the story was running, I resigned my position as part of the board of the Nolan Foundation, I did the decent thing.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“What we can say with 100 per cent certainty is that the girl executed and burned in Boivin’s house was not Zoe Nolan. As far as we can tell, neither Boivin or the Matthews brothers ever even knew of her existence.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“It seems highly likely that the brothers happened to be in this nightclub, noticed a resemblance between Kimberly and Lucille and made an unplanned, unsuccessful attempt to take her.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“At the time it felt typical. The defining moment of my life, and it hadn’t even been about me. So I applied for a credit card, got it a week or so later and booked a flight to Paris. I wanted to go and make it about me, I wanted my fucking life back.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“I’ll admit now that I had some fear about his motives buried at the back of my mind. That probably helped me stick around through hard times when I might otherwise have walked away.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“He didn’t look at me like I was a mystery solved or someone who’d come back from the dead. He looked at me like his side-piece had come back to her rightful place after some kind of argument. Michael Anderson was the same thing to me as I’m sure he was to Zoe – a disappointment, a dead end.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“She acted like she had post-partum depression before she got pregnant, so you can imagine what she was like after. I just couldn’t believe how disappointed she seemed to have this tiny miracle, Louisa, in our lives all of a sudden. That’s why I initiated the divorce.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“But then, the theft of Zoe’s personal items, especially the soiled feminine hygiene products, spoke to someone who was sexually obsessed with her specifically. We couldn’t work out which order it went in. Did the intruder lie in wait behind those walls for just anyone? Or did he notice Zoe first and happen upon the panel afterwards? Wasn’t that too much of a coincidence?”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“The FT doesn’t tend to lead with missing blondes. I myself find stories of that kind quite grisly, and I really was incredibly busy.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“Now, I can believe Professor Michael Anderson might lead a much more interesting life than us, that he has thousands of teenage girls batting their eyes at him all day, but who’d forget something like that?”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“This wasn’t Al cancelling plans or turning up at mine strung out or hung over, it was life or death. He’d given her this stuff that no one in her condition should have been taking, he used her, then walked off without a word to anyone while she was mid-breakdown. I wanted to know what kind of man could treat another human being like that.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“got to see Robert’s great skill close up. He can play people and make them feel like they don’t really have a choice in things.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“Zoe were as profound as anyone else’s. She had no life of her own whatsoever, no social skills whatsoever, and her only pleasures were attained vicariously. She was then, is now, a leech, and that’s far more destructive in my book than a boyfriend who’s only after one thing. Most importantly, returning to the matter at hand, when Zoe attacked me she never said anything about the damned tape, and there’s a room full of people to back that”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“When I saw Andrew wasn’t going to say or do anything, wasn’t even going to defend Jai, I saw what a two-faced fucking coward he could be. I went outside for some air.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“Call me a cunt, a racist, a sexist, whatever, but don’t print that I didn’t care about my friend, because I did. And I say that in spite of how I might have acted. I say it in spite of whatever he’ll say back about me.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“thought that watch was fucking hideous, man. Tasteless, tacky, boujee bling. It just went well with my portfolio of ugly objects. Course I said it looked cool, why would I tell him the truth?”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“You know, not to be crass, but there’s no need to crack open a safe when you already know the combination. Zoe can’t have given it much credence anyway, because our relationship didn’t change a jot, even though I’m sure some people around her would have quite liked it to. She found the note on Halloween and we spent that night together, we even went out dressed up. I was the psycho killer from Scream”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“Whoever wrote it was a deeply disturbed individual. My dealings with Andrew have all been with a simple man who’s trying hard to appear complex. If he’d been getting his rocks off in her room he’d have just spunked into the desk plant or something.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“The longer I stayed, the more I realized she’d been talking about the tower, that place. There was something wrong with it.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“I’m sorry, but that’s when my Virgo comes out. You know, if pushed I can be critical, clinical, precise. I’m not saying anything radical here. Women shouldn’t have to put up with this shit.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“It’s funny to think that in all my protestations that Zoe and I had nothing in common, I was overlooking our two recent suicide attempts. Well, not funny ha-ha …”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“Zoe’s parents would have found a different reason to get divorced, Daily Mail readers would have found a different reason to hate Pakis, and on and on.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“To be a doormat to some older man, and to isolate herself from anyone who saw things differently. Without all that in her head, without where it eventually led her, would we even be sitting here?”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“My dad likes to tell people he was a professional musician, but he was a wedding singer. I think Zoe believed it all for a long time, this idea that she was special or chosen, that she was going on to fame and fortune. I just saw how stupid it all was.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story

“She just had this gift, this voice that felt like it had the power to change the course of someone’s day. It was like she gave the unspoken some physical presence. I think if she’d been allowed to reach her full potential, her voice could have changed the course of whole lives.”
― Joseph Knox, True Crime Story