Think of them as hesitation marks, like the scars on the wrists of an unsuccessful suicide.

There hadn't been any hesitation marks, which would have indicated that the murderer wasn't convinced he wanted to kill the victim.

'There's one hesitation mark,' she said, indicating the cut that had not gone all the way through.

There were two of those ... hesitation marks, they call them, on her left wrist, where she couldn't make herself cut deep enough.

No harm in putting her in the hot tub, making the hesitation marks on her wrist, then one cut deep enough, and waiting, then breaking down the unlocked door.

There's always hesitation marks.

The first incisions were shallow-the kind of cuts that pathologists refer to as "hesitation marks."

Doc called the death wound "amazing"--no hesitation marks, Danny Upshaw wanted out bad and now.

Where were the hesitation marks or angrily slanted T's in a typewritten ransom demand?

Glenda, on the other hand, finally convinced the DA to send the incriminating note to the FBI lab, which promptly verified the presence of numerous hesitation marks- a classic sign of forgery.