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The lesson of what happened at 3 p.m. on June 17, 1981, in Rochester, New York, was that when bits and pieces of a case don’t add up it’s usually because our frames of reference are off; they will never add up unless we break free of our expectations.
Tahl Raz • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
He views crime as a natural phenomenon, like a weather pattern, which comes and goes in streaks like seasons, and the serial killer as a pure “bad guy” whose habits are too dark and powerful to be conceived of:
Alice Bolin • Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
