Unbelievable

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Until I was in second grade, my dad was a detective with the Philadelphia Police Department.

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Its really pretty boring, hed often say, as if we were going to believethat.

But most of it, like my dad said, is really phone calls and parsing paperwork.

She sends off the rock-moving, healthy-water-system-spouting dude with an admirably fierce speech meant to shame his irritation.

Which is fair, because holy hell is this woman committed.

Rasmussens case, of course, aligns perfectly with Ambers rape.

The victims are, intriguingly, not superficially similar.

After two seasons ofMindhunteryou might have been searching for this rapists modus operandi and failing to find it.

Amber and Marie are both white and young.

Sarah is older and black.

Amber has a boyfriend, the other two women dont.

Ass tattoos …. Of asses!

Someone give me access to this database!)

but has come up with nada on the suspects left calf birthmark.

And theres a sense of urgency here.

Mia, relax, Morris is sure of it!

Meanwhile, her point is clear.

This is something they carry with them like a bullet in the spine.

What the hell should she do?

Marie cant jump out of that car fast enough.

Fighting with adults or insisting on what she believes has never worked for her before.

Marie is small, and powerless, and poor, and alone.

What the hell would have made her think she could simply will two detectives to believe her patched-together tale?

The news in Colorado is less than ideal.

So how should they proceed?

And again, with paperwork.

Rasmussen pulls every single file on rapes in the state of Colorado for the past five years.

This guy wont know what hit him.