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1 " Criminals saw the man, not the badge, and they liked him, sometimes enough to tell him surprising and damaging things. "
― Mark Bowden , The Last Stone
2 " Nobody ever tells you when you go into police work that it will require dishonesty. "
3 " How much sense would it make, after all, for someone involved with a kidnapping to draw attention to himself by claiming to be a witness and telling an elaborate lie? "
4 " Mileski had once been caught in a home burglary and had been shot in the leg by police. Afterward, he limped. "
5 " she’d had to play along, to pretend—convincingly—sympathy and even amity. "
6 " Both had white hair but still looked hale. "
7 " He was so out of step with the youthful antiwar fervor of the period that he enlisted in the army at the height of the Vietnam War, only to be thrown out for lying about his age, education, and criminal past. "
8 " but the goblin was still speaking in riddles. "
9 " Many of the things overheard were redolent of deeper knowledge. "
10 " Katie assured him that she was professionally nonjudgmental—which was not true; she was the opposite and was revolted by his crimes. "
11 " I pride myself on not making people’s experience shittier. "
12 " Mark reiterated how assiduously the FBI and his own department were now gathering evidence against him. "
13 " fierce fraternal tradition, "
14 " Today police have new tools for old crimes. DNA testing offers seemingly magic solutions to decades-old mysteries as long as physical evidence has been preserved. "
15 " A petty criminal, killer, and audacious pedophile, Mileski had inserted himself into the investigation "
16 " in all honestly "
17 " Lloyd’s carefully cultivated epistolary support system crumbled. "
18 " A fragment of charred human bone was found, "
19 " One man who had known Lloyd years earlier said flatly that he “hated women. "
20 " Isolated remnants of the county’s bucolic past remained in blocks of older wood-frame houses stranded between acres of parking lots, strip malls, and big retail outlets. Its population was mixed in every way. "