The Cases That Haunt Us Quotes

“I've come out many times publicly in support of the death penalty. I've stated that I'd be more than willing personally to pull the switch on some of the monsters I've hunted in my career with the FBI. But Bruno Hauptmann just doesn't fit into this category -- the evidence just wasn't, and isn't, there to have confidently sent him to the electric chair. To impose the one sentence for which there is no retroactive correction requires a far higher standard of proof than was seen here. Blaming him for the entire crime was, to my mind, an expedient and simpleminded solution to a private horror that had become a national obsession.”
― John E. Douglas, The Cases That Haunt Us

“If a bank robber tapes over the lens of a surveillance camera, that’s MO. If he feels a need to tear his clothes off and dance naked before that same camera, that’s signature.”
― John E. Douglas, The Cases That Haunt Us

“had been ripped open, and her intestines”
― John E. Douglas, The Cases That Haunt Us

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? —SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Sign of Four”
― John E. Douglas, The Cases That Haunt Us