"One of the best books I’ve read was Dead Men Do tell Tales by William R. Maples and Michael Browning. That got me interested – and now I get to watch “CSI” several times a day. Does it get any better?
Yah...I know the feeling. I have read a lot of books on profilers and forensics, and now, I find it hard to stay away from any media with that as a subject. Even "beginners" stuff is interesting, in that it helps me to learn more about "people" who commit crimes and think they can get away with it.
I watched all of the CSI episodes for the first two years as I lived in Vegas, but once I moved here, the time change put a kink in it. Now, of course, I'm into the "hard core" stuff...(I wonder if there is an addiction name for that...???) ;)
Before moving to this neighborhood I had a lot of criminal neighbors – mostly young wannabe gangbangers. Many would congregate in the playground near my apartment and plan their nefarious deeds – and they weren’t quiet about it.
I would wander out after listening for a few minutes to tell them what fools they were. They never heard of forensic evidence. They seemed to ignore even fingerprints – “My prints ain’t on file!” Several ended up in prison for such great brave actions as robbing a pizza driver and – the real A-hole – killing a man for his jacket and necklace.
This was when I learned that they don’t really care about going to prison. Incarceration was a badge of honor.