Deliver Us Quotes

“Why is eight years old middle-aged?" he asked a detective one day. When the man asked what Tim meant, he said, "Laura died at sixteen. For her, eight was middle-aged.”
― Kathryn Casey, Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields

“Nearly all the bodies were found in or near water. Yet it was obviously not for its healing qualities. Why? “Water washes away evidence. It makes it harder to solve the crimes,” an aging investigator told me. “They know that.”
― Kathryn Casey, Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields