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.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

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.

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.

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

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.