Sentence examples for detectives failure from inspiring English sources

In his summation, Mr. Giovanni criticized the police investigation, highlighting the detectives' failure to take a DNA sample from a cut on the finger of a roofer who had worked on Ms. Stein's Fifth Avenue apartment building the day she was killed.

City Paper Columnist Jason Cherkis reported unattributed criticism of the medical examiner's failure to test for exotic drugs and to keep a sample of Wone's blood for later testing, as well as detectives' failure to follow up on a lint trap that had attracted a cadaver dog's attention.

District attorney officials say they regret the "substantial delay," attributing it in part to the detective's failure to return their calls.

Stephan Pastis's Timmy Failure, the hero detective of Timmy Failure: Mistakes were Made and other titles, is also apparently underachiever but with an unusual talent for sleuthing.

Bramall, Proctor and the family of Brittan have all expressed their exasperation at the failure of detectives to test Nick's claims.

They catalogued a list of failings not only by the senior detective but also "a failure by the forensic scientist to make a more systematic examination of the scene".

But the message did not reach the detective handling the case, a failure that police officials in New York City are investigating.

In other words, Paliwal's success as a matrimonial detective is directly proportional to the failure of urban Indian marriage.

In Arthur Conan Doyle's detective story, the "curious incident" was the failure of a dog named Silver Blaze to bark.

Following his TV show failure as a good guy detective in "The Good Guys", Hanks has thrown his lot in with the bad boys.

Two of the detective constables had allegations of "other neglect or failure of duty" upheld against them and are no longer working on Operation Weeting, the Met said.