Connie Fletcher > Quotes

“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. So your evidence is being chewed up by the family pet.

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. 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.”
― Connie Fletcher, Every Contact Leaves a Trace

“You should fight like hell if you get attacked on the street, or in your home. The old thinking was, especially with women, submit, give in, maybe the guy will give you a
break and not kill you. Now, maybe you will get raped, but
least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you didn't
just lie down and take it. You don't know how many home-invasion scenes we walk in on where the people are sitting there all tied up and all dead. There'll be four, five people, a family, mayb...more "You should fight like hell if you get attacked on the street, or in your home. The old thinking was, especially with women, submit, give in, maybe the guy will give you a
break and not kill you. Now, maybe you will get raped, but
least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you didn't
just lie down and take it. You don't know how many home-invasion scenes we walk in on where the people are sitting there all tied up and all dead. There'll be four, five people, a family, maybe some guests: enough to put up a fight. And you know they let themselves get tied up. You just know the guys said, 'We just want to tie you up. We won't hurt you.' You'd think the people would realize — why do they want to tie us up if they don't want to hurt us? But they bought it. It always gives us a little chuckle.”
― Connie Fletcher, What Cops Know: Today's Police Tell the Inside Story of Their Work on America's Streets

“(We had one guy who killed a woman and made meatloaf out of her.)
And they interviewed the guy, George, and he was like, ‘Yeah, she was a pain in the ass and I beat her and, you know, I finally cracked her over the head and she died. I didn’t know what the hell to do with her.
Well, Christ, George, I mean… Couldn’t ya—give her a Viking burial or something? You didn’t have to cook the poor woman down like Martha Stewart, for God’s sake. For meatloaf.
I love meatloaf. I do. But I was off it for a long time after that.”
― Connie Fletcher, Crime Scene: Inside the World of the Real CSIs

“Sadistic rapists are a very small percentage of rapists, about 2 percent of them. They con women into going with them a lot of times; they usually like to keep the victim for an extended time, because the sadistic rapist has all these things he’s gonna do to them, the victim. And more than likely, he’s gonna cause such severe injuries to the victim that she’s probably going to die. Many times, this starts out as a rape and turns into a homicide because the sadist doesn’t know when to stop. The fear that comes back to him from the victim carries him away.”
― Connie Fletcher, What Cops Know: Cops Talk About What They Do, How They Do It, and What It Does to Them

“We like to go back and interview the people the suspect may have talked to. It doesn’t have to be a woman or a boyfriend or girlfriend; it could be like a good friend of theirs or a family member that they split up with. We get a lot of information by going back to people.”
― Connie Fletcher, Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Crime Scene Experts Talk About Their Work, from Discovery Through Verdict