Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.