What I'm Reading

I finished a book last night, Every Contact Leaves A Trace. It’s a compilation/synopsis of LOTS of interviews with people involved in police work, forensics, and the trial process. The author conducted all these interviews and then organized her quotes into sections such as “Crime Scene Processing,” “DNA,” and “Criminal Trials”. Very interesting stuff. Here, I’ve provided my 2 favorite quotes from the book.

 

The first is from a Prosecutor: “We see homicide, every day…I just can’t get over it…It happens so frequently that – phew! Am I normal, or what? You know, I’m fifty-two years of age. I’ve spent fifty-two years’ worth of weekends in my life. And at the end of every weekend, I come back to work on Monday without having committed a homicide over the weekend. Now why can’t other people do that?” Heh.

 

And this, from a Crime Scene Processor, regarding pets: “We get a lot of calls where the person is murdered at home, but is not found for a period of time. And so the animals have already started to take the body apart because they haven’t been fed in that period [Stella!!]…I tell you – dogs are more loyal than cats…Cats will wait only a certain period of time and they’ll start chewing on you [STELLA!!]. Dogs will wait a day or two before they just can’t take the starving anymore. So, keep that in mind when choosing a pet. You know how a cat just stares at you, maybe at the top of the TV, from across the room? That’s because they’re watching to see if you’re gonna stop breathing.” Again, heh. I love cop humour!!