"One of the best books Ive 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 werent 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 aint 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 dont really care about going to prison. Incarceration was a badge of honor.