There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.