12 Criminology Quotes from Movies with Sound Clips

Last updated on: July 30, 2023

A selection of criminology quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 Amputate a man's leg, and he can still feel it tickling.

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

2 Oh! Hi, cannon. Oh, I think you and I have met before, cannon. Maybe on a ballistics report on my desk. Do you suppose?

Telly Savalas as Lt. Theo Kojak in Kojak

3 Would you feel the face and jaw, please? Am I mistaken, or has rigor begun? -It has.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

4 As you know, the loss of heat from the brain is the most reliable way of determining time of death. Right, Chief? -Oh, yeah.

Quote from In the Heat of the Night (1967)

5 We can also learn a dozen things from a a cigarette. Anybody who smokes a cigarette reveals secrets through the saliva that remain on the end. Even though many months have elapsed since it was smoked.

Quote from Bullets or Ballots (1939)

6 Is this Lecter's handwriting?

Quote from The Silence of the Lambs

7 Yeah. Ballistics identified the make of the weapon. A nine-millimeter Browning, silencer equipped.

Quote from Kojak

8 Well, there was no way he could have known. He hadn't seen the ballistics report.