Status Updates From The Devil Behind the Badge:...

"His suspect was a federal law enforcement agent and military veteran who knew the inner workings of criminal interviews and had likely conducted a few himself."

"The task had been, in his eyes, clean and efficient. He drove the twenty-five miles south back to his home on Bur Oak Drive, showered, and slipped into bed with his sleeping wife."😣

"JUAN DAVID ORTIZ REPORTED TO THE BORDER PATROL TRAINING academy in New Mexico on August 27, 2009, at the tail end of the agency’s massive post-9/11 hiring spree. He entered a world where misogyny was rampant, agents often went unpunished for misdeeds, and secrets, no matter how dark and damning, tended to remain concealed."

"Detectives were also challenged by trying to glean information from people who were often noticeably high. When they were stoned, they were nonsensical. When they sobered up, they often refused to talk."