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“I didn’t know then that Carol DaRonch, Jean Graham, and Debby Kent’s girlfriend, Jolynne Beck, who had seen the man in the auditorium on November 8, had all picked Ted out of the Utah lineup on October 2. Ted had been one suspect, standing in a seven-man lineup, surrounded by detectives, all of them a little older, a little heavier than he was.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? —William Shakespeare”
― S.T. Abby, Scarlet Angel

“Well, their mouths were sewed shut, as you know, but when we opened them, we found the missing penises.”
― S.T. Abby, Scarlet Angel

“Something in the victims’ lives had gone awry on the days they vanished, something that would tend to make them distracted, and therefore easy prey for a clever killer.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me