The Officers (you can browse excerpts from the book here)
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Officer Jim Ritter
“I experienced some pretty traumatic incidents that changed the course of my life. It goes along with the territory. The most traumatic was the Goldmark murders in 1985. That call was pretty damaging. I had seen a lot of violence and murders…but when you see a family of four butchered on Christmas Eve… it takes its toll.”
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Detective Robert A. Shilling
“It happened on Christmas Eve 1985. A call came in that neighbors arriving for a dinner party at a residence and not getting any answer. Right off the bat, that didn’t sound good.
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Detective Malinda Wilson
“What we see is upsetting. The worst for me, keep in mind it’s all bad, but the worst for me are videos. And I never – unless I absolutely have to and I will only do it once if I have to – is turn on the volume on these videos because they’re very, very difficult to take…The problem with what you’ve seen is you can’t unsee it. It’s an infection.”
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Sgt. Jay Shin
“Within the last 23 years, the only thing I’ve ever personally kept in my file that means anything are the letters of commendation I get from citizens. Those mean more to me than any recognition I might receive from within the department.”
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Officer Sean Moore
“As long as we have a clear uncontaminated starting point, the dog is going to figure out who we’re looking for. That’s part of the training. He has to be able to discriminate between the scents of other people who have walked across it and the scent that we’re looking for.”
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Officer Eugene Schubeck and Officer Bryan Bright
“I hate to go to cop funerals. We’ll put black tape over our badges. A few years ago I started saving my black tape and putting it in my locker. I’ve got a row now of black tape. One of the guys was walking by my locker recently and saw it and asked, ‘What’s all that?’ And I said, ‘Officers.’ It just hit him then.”