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“They both had enormous eyes, my father’s blue, my mother’s green, that expressed with great feeling what they frequently could not.”

Mother Father Emotions Parents Eyes

Book:I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Source: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“I don’t care if I’m the one who captures him. I just want bracelets on his wrists and a cell door slamming behind him.”

True Crime Suspect

Book:I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Source: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“One of the first examples of forensic science solving a murder appears in a book called The Washing Away of Wrongs, published in 1247 by Song Ci, a Chinese coroner and detective....Metallic green flies descend in a chaotic swarm and then, as if collectively alerted, land on one sickle, crawling all over it as the other sickles lie undisturbed. The magistrate knew traces of blood and human tissue attract blowflies....But forensic science advancements are really just about finding the latest way to draw a blowfly to a bloody sickle. The goal is the same as it was in thirteenth-century rural China: cellular certainty establishing guilt.”

Love Truth Death Hate Relationships Fate Men And Women

Book:I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Source: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“Police reports read like stories told by robots. They’re terse and demarcated, with little space for judgment or emotion.”

True Crime Police Reports

Book:I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Source: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“Twenty-five years is a long time in cop years.”

Police True Crime Cops Cold Cases

Book:I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Source: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer