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WHO KILLED YOU? Or, who murdered you? There was, after all, a distinct difference. === There was justifiable homicide, the best example of which was self-defense. There you intended to harm another, but the law said you had the right to…
If you were negligent in causing that car accident or dropping your weapon, and someone died, you could be charged with involuntary manslaughter. A spontaneous bludgeoning, resulting in death, could end with the perpetrator being charged…
Then had come the vicious blindside hit to the head on the football field that had changed his life, and who he was, forever. The resulting brain trauma had almost killed him. And while he had survived, the blow had forced his brain to…
The second result of the hit was his developing synesthesia. He associated odd things, like death, with a color. In the case of death, it was a visceral electric blue that could raise the hairs on the back of Decker’s neck and make him…
“When I was a kid the mines and mills were still operating. People had money. Dads worked, moms stayed home and raised the children. People went to church on Sunday. Downtown was alive and well. Then the mines and mills went belly-up and…
“People burglarize their neighbor’s house so they can sell the stuff for cash to service their addiction. Or a son embezzles his mom’s bank account to do the same. Or a granny steals from her granddaughter’s piggy bank. It’s seriously…
“People burglarize their neighbor’s house so they can sell the stuff for cash to service their addiction. Or a son embezzles his mom’s bank account to do the same. Or a granny steals from her granddaughter’s piggy bank. It’s seriously…
Our OD rate is up nearly seventy percent from last year. And the last ten cases we’ve investigated have been people over sixty-five. Some people call it ‘Rust Belt Retirement.” === They don’t want to spend tax dollars they don’t have on…
“Slaves, accept the authority of your masters, with all deference. For it is to your credit if being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly. ” === “Decker sounds like he’s good at this, though.” “He’s the best I’ve ever…
It was from an era when money flowed freely, no income taxes were due, the world lived both more ostentatiously and more simply, and everyone knew his place. Globalization was not even a term, and information moved far more slowly, leading…
“I don’t believe anyone, initially,” replied Decker. === “Decker, the police can show no connection between those two.” “You’re wrong, they have one very strong connection.” “What’s that?” “They died together.” === Yet there was stuff…
“I’m into keeping the government out my business. And I’m into the government stop taking sides of folks that don’t need no help. Look at me, I got nothing. You don’t see me crying about it. You don’t see me asking for handouts because I…
She’s in kindergarten. Her missing a few days is not going to determine if she gets into Harvard. ” === They employ a lot of people and it’s really the only thing going here now. But I couldn’t pass the physical requirements. Lifting all…
“You look like you were an athlete.” “I was, about a hundred pounds ago.” === A life of roughly three and a half decades ground down to about thirty minutes that was what constituted Frank Mitchell’s exit from this earth. That’s about what…
Life insurance companies value a human life at about five million bucks. Using that number and other factors, our people projected the economic loss to the country each year due to the opioid crisis at about a hundred billion dollars. A…
“That’s heroin, not morphine, lady,” said the thin man. “Don’t you know nothing’?” Kemper whirled on him and flashed her badge. “I know a lot more than you do. When the body breaks down heroin the instant by - product is morphine!…
“Killers sometimes overthink things, Decker. They make simple complicated. They get too cute. ” === “But you don’t think he really is the killer?” “I don’t know that he isn’t.” === “You could get the death penalty.” “I’ve actually had that…
“The cost to make a kilo of heroin and a kilo of fentanyl is about the same, about three to four grand. A kilo of heroin will fetch sixty thousand on the streets. But because fentanyl is so much more potent, one kilo of fentanyl can be…
“So, insurance scams, drug dealers, and framing someone for a treasure. Who would have thought one town could have so much crap going on separately? ” === “Lots of people have only Social Security, and they don’t join a drug cartel to…
“Put money into local education, retraining centers, and a new opioid addiction facility. Try to get new businesses to come here and employ people. Have an incubation place for start - ups. Whatever I can do to help turn this place around.…