• Blame deflectors
• Columbo heard a lot of them
• Common defenses
• Con man's excuses
• Courtroom defenses
• Cover stories
• Cover-ups
• Defendants' excuses
• Defendants' spouses, sometimes
• Detectives check them
• Exculpatory explanations
• Excuses
• Excuses for the losers
• Excuses from suspects
• Exonerates, in a way
• Exonerating factors
• Explanations to get you off the hook
• I was at my girlfriend's at the time, and others
• I was at my mother's, and others
• I was home asleep at the time of the murder and others
• Ike has plenty of them
• Ike's excuses?
• Interrogation room excuses
• Legal excuses
• Legal outs
• Means of exoneration
• Mystery stories?
• No ___ (Eric Clapton song off Journeyman)
• Outs
• Parts of interrogations
• Perps need good ones
• Perps' stories
• Provides an excuse for
• Reasons bail is set
• Some are airtight
• Some witnesses
• Stories
• Stories on the stand
• Stories told in court
• Suspect stories
• Suspected felons' outs
• Suspects' defenses
• Suspects' excuses
• The dog ate my homework and the like
• They may be airtight
• They may help one get away with murder
• They may provide vindication
• Trial excuses
• What suspects need
• Where were you on the night of stories