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“So why do they do it? Simple. Just ask the families of Michele Wallace, Diane Keidel, Cher Elder; Lois Kleber, Ike Hampton, Gerry Boggs, Heather Ikard, Heather Dawn Church, and Christine Elkins. No one could replace the lives lost, but neither were their loved ones left wondering what had happened to them. There is no statute of limitations on grief, and the truth does matter.”
― Steve Jackson, No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators

“She then threw herself into her work for the City of Grand Junction in the northwest corner of Colorado, burying herself in”
― Steve Jackson, Monster

“Hell, he thought, this is about as close to Sherlock Holmes as you could get.”
― Steve Jackson, No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators

“With,” Metzner added, “explosive and antisocial features.” It was an important distinction. Insane people don’t know the difference between right and wrong. But a serial killer with an antisocial personality disorder knows the difference. He simply doesn’t care.”
― Steve Jackson, Monster

“Drive through the mountains; fly over a swamp or a city; float down a river or on a lake; hike across a desert; and there is a good chance you have looked right past the final resting place of a murder victim.”
― Steve Jackson, No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators

“There is an old children’s fable in which a frog and a scorpion meet at a rain-swollen creek. As the frog prepares to cross, the scorpion begs for a ride on his back. “I am afraid that you would sting me, and I would die,” the frog says. But the scorpion promises that he has no such intentions, and at last the frog agrees. However, halfway across the creek, the scorpion suddenly stings the frog. “But why?” asks the frog as he begins to slip beneath the surface of the water. “Now we will both drown!” “I couldn’t help it,” the scorpion says with a shrug. “It’s my nature.”
― Steve Jackson, Monster

“the stage of bone growth in individuals whose ages at death were known, anthropologists were able to come up with”
― Steve Jackson, No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators