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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
“This kind of thing, seeing a grief-stricken family further victimized by an opportunist without a conscience, which unfortunately is not uncommon, always enrages me.”
― When a Killer Calls
― When a Killer Calls
“In the dirt, bare footprints led from the car to the mailbox, but—ominously—there were none leading back.”
― When a Killer Calls
― When a Killer Calls
“Bob and I were soon joined, always on an informal basis since they were officially tied up with teaching and research, by Roy Hazelwood, a brilliant agent whose special area of expertise was interpersonal violence and who had gone down to Atlanta with me four years before to work ATKID-Major Case 30: the Atlanta Child Murders, and the equally brilliant Kenneth Lanning, who focused on crimes against children.”
― 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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