Any longtime law enforcement officer understands that there are individuals so loathsome, they deserve being murdered, as there are those hapless others who, in the exigency of the moment, as if fulfilling an unvoiced wish of the community to expunge evil in its midst, rise up as angels of wrath, self-sacrificing as Jesus Christ on the cross: if not the father of the abused and denigrated Mary Ann Healy, then who?
