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‘Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.’ René Leriche, La philosophie de la chirurgie, 1951
“I remember Mom and me riding in complete silence,” Dawn recalled. “There was nothing to be said. I think we were so exhausted, we were spent every way you can imagine. And I don’t know that we could even allow ourselves to believe it was actually going to be over, because it felt like it would never end, that he would never be caught.”
― When a Killer Calls
― When a Killer Calls
“I don’t want it to happen again,” Bell replied. “But this fellow sitting right here did not do it.”
“You know it happens to you, and you want to stop it so bad you don’t know what in the world to do. It’s destroying you,” Perry asserted.”
― When a Killer Calls
“You know it happens to you, and you want to stop it so bad you don’t know what in the world to do. It’s destroying you,” Perry asserted.”
― When a Killer Calls
“With his voice quivering, Bell responded, “When I think about it, a nine-year-old girl. I heard it on the news. When you tell me that, I can’t believe I did that. It’s like God strike me dead for doing something like that to either the nine-year-old girl or the other girl. But I can’t see me doing that. I can’t relate to that, not really either one of them.”
― When a Killer Calls
― When a Killer Calls
“The point is, serial killers and violent predators, whatever is going on inside, do not look or act like monsters in everyday life. If they did, it would be much easier to identify and catch them. Their advantage is that we tend to look right through them.”
― When a Killer Calls
― When a Killer Calls
“What was apparent to me at that moment was that Dawn herself had become a profiler of sorts, analyzing what the offender said and laying it out for him, probing, looking for any clue to what could have led him to destroy her family, yet giving him a sense that she actually cared about his feelings.”
― When a Killer Calls
― When a Killer Calls
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