“It’s clear we love the Dead Girl, enough to rehash and reproduce her story, to kill her again and again, but not enough to see a pattern. She is always singular, an anomaly, the juicy new mystery.”— Alice Bolin, amazon.com
“'Lorena' restores Lorena’s dignity, not only aligning her ordeal with the modern-day #MeToo movement, but perhaps more crucially, eviscerating the smug, lazy, sensation-driven treatment she received at the time.”— Tim Grierson, melmagazine.com
“The Supreme Judicial Court found that Carter's speech of encouraging suicide was not protected by the First Amendment.”— Tasneem Nashrulla, buzzfeednews.com
“In 2002, the body of a man who had committed suicide was found in his residence. The police struggled to identify his next-of-kin. After making contact, they discovered this man wasn’t who he said he was at all. Instead, he had the identity of an 8-year-old boy who had died in a car accident in 1945…”— Magdalene Taylor, melmagazine.com
“He will be formally sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Nov. 19. Prosecutors said later Tuesday that Chris’ defense team first approached them several weeks ago to discuss a plea deal.”— Adam Carlson, people.com
“The true crime would be to not finish what we started.”— Alvin Sargent, Dr. Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus, Alfred Molina, imdb.com
“Why do we hypothesise and create all these theories? Are we actually just bat shit crazy/morbid AF?”— Cassandra Green, bodyandsoul.com.au
“Looking at him, you'd never guess that his parents once gave him the book Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives as a 'thinking of you' gift.”— Michelle McNamara, amazon.com
“You don't have any control over it. You try and put it away, but that doesn't work. I mean, it's not accepted by society. But it's like an alcohol or a drug person. You know, they're going to blame it on the drugs or alcohol. They are going to say they couldn't control it.”— Dennis Rader, amazon.com
“Maplecroft, the 14-room Fall River mansion Borden lived in after she was acquitted in 1893 of axe murdering her father and stepmother, is set to open as a bed-and-breakfast within the next month or so.”— Rebecca Fishbein, jezebel.com
“If surface behavior were that easy to interpret, it would take little or no training and anyone could be a profiler.”— Mark Olshaker, John E. Douglas, amazon.com
“According to court documents, the little girls had been planning the kill since Christmastime.”— Kathleen Hale, hazlitt.net
“Many detectives believe that the male, too, operates under a pseudo-menstrual cycle, that there are times when the perverse drives of marginally normal men become obsessive and they are driven out to rape or kill.”— Ann Rule, amazon.com
“Twelve days she was back there, upside down, wedged between wall and bookcase, first alive and then dead.”— Thomas Lake, sptimes.com
“Are you familiar with the works of Truman Capote? I’m Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but this place is strictly In Cold Blood.”— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Veronica Lodge, Camila Mendes, imdb.com
“Take the case of Nikolas Cruz, or any other proven school shooter. Arresting him earlier in the process might have delayed a violent outcome by a few years years, but likely wouldn’t have solved any underlying problem.”— Paul DeBenedetto, theoutline.com
“While on trial for a murder I didn’t commit, my prosecutor painted me as a sex-crazed femme fatale with magical powers to control men. The tabloids loved that story. So did the public. So did the jury. I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.”— Amanda Knox, thecut.com