tire irons

It was a scorching day.

At work they hid their dislike of each other behind a façade of cheerfulness.

There's sort of a thin line between being paranoid about it and being aware of it.

You start dying the day you were born.

There was Sign for this young man to get off the street, or he'll end up dead or in prison. a gang where I
lived.

I was a crew chief with 189th Assault Helicopter Company in Vietnam. one who is in charge of a crew of
workers

One was to start dating my former girlfriend,

who had dumped me while I was in Vietnam.

Two out of three goals I accomplished.

I got an outstanding evaluation. excellent

Those were hard to come by. Nobody has done anything and supports are hard to come by.

When they pulled up on the scene, everybody got out of their way.

You're investigating the ultimate crime. highest, supreme, or unchallengeable

There's nothing more serious than one human being taking the life of another.

The death of Laura Collins and 12 other young women touched off one of the largest manhunts in Southern
California history. That touched off several nights of riots and the birth of a movement.

You'd be surprised how thorough he is on an investigation. meticulous

"Here I am, last week, I'm eating a double-wrapped red chili burrito

It don't get any better than that.

I threw it back down.

he just swerves around my car. to turn aside from a course sharply or suddenly. Drivers swerved to avoid
the debris.

the same guy I saw at the thrift store

he has this horrible big grin. to smile broadly, showing one's teeth
I see blood spatterings around the door and on the floor, right by the door that separates the garage from
the condo proper. splash

spray, sprinkle

She'd put her hands on the countertop, and lifted her head up

with a stargazed look, with a gun stretched out coming towards her face, in the sense of astrology- extend
or stretch out to a greater or the full length

The bullet deflected off the keys in her hand. capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave), to
turn aside from a course

It knocked her to the ground. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

She jumped up and started running down the alleyway

He's just as startled as she is to see him. to slightly surprise or frighten someone

At which time

the suspect puts the gun down by his side

He walks away.

from ambiance to smell, the atmosphere of an environment

deputy

A neighbor that lived three doors down from me when I was a kid growing up.
she's yanked out of her car,

Tsai-Lian Yu was left sprawled in the street, shot in the chest. sit or lie with one's limbs spread out

we told her we'd like to send the staff artist. the people employed in a company, school, or organization

I can tell you he was… 5'10"

an identikit drawing. a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; likeness:
semblance, similitude

Pertaining be relevant to

there's a deviancy: Deviance includes behavior that is considered weird, odd, and strange. Sometimes,
deviance could include illegal behavior. Since people don't agree on what's normal

He intentionally slapped the top of a car… To slap someone is to hit them with the palm of your open hand.

she was down on the ground

You could see where he stepped on a five-gallon plastic can and got in the house through an open restroom
window.

He was the infamous "campus rapist." well-known for something bad

The place was ransacked. to search through every part of (a place or thing)

got a hard look at him ?

being ushered out the window, and being carried. The family was ushered out of the room.

What is absolutely critical to understand is that once handed off to these evaluators, you have been
ushered out the court's back door
Open up the glove compartment.

I remember there being German Shepherds barking and a chain-link fence.

And he made me get into a zipped-up duffel bag

kind of dingy If something is dingy, it's dirty. If you spend your days as a chimney sweeper, you probably
look pretty dingy.

The windows were covered with drapery or something that made it dark, and… hanging cloth used as a blind
(especially for a window), curtain

Just slimy. Evil

Despicable. evil

take-out stuff around. purchase prepared food to be eaten at home

on the side of the road

and have them get your family to come get you."

At that time there was a series of child abductions, If you're the victim of an abduction, you've been carried
away against your will — kidnapped

a nine-year-old boy was snatched from his bed,

you look for broadcast.

light-skinned Hispanic or Caucasian, disheveled hair, in disarray; extremely disorderly

brown-stained ga we've never encountered anybody like that… p teeth, and a pungent odor. to discolour
(something) with marks that are not easily removed, Some foods can stain teeth, as of course can tea and
coffee. -having a strong sharp bitter smell or taste,The more herbs you use, the more pungent the sauce will
be

I was alleging that the child abductions were related to the homicides. claim ,affirm

It's unheard of.

these old-timers, they laughed it off. veterans

and scoff at my theory. to pretend that something is less serious than it is.

you're a young punk trying to make a name for myself." He had a good sense of this killer. A punk is a young
troublemaker. The meaning of GOOD SENSE is sound judgment often instinctive or unlearned.

he drove around the parking lot. drive without any particular aim

and just kept skulking around, and finally saw a lone female. to hide or move around as if trying not to be
seen, usually with bad intentions: I thought I saw someone skulking in the bushes - maybe we should call the
police. Hiding and disguising.

"Lady walks by you,then you ducked down behind the car."He says, "Oh, I didn't duck. My shoes were
untied." to move (the head or body) quickly downwards, to escape being seen or avoid a blow

He ducked in time to save his head from the blow.

a mug show folder together. to attack someone in order to rob them (informal)

they're all sliced in the crotch. the forked part of the human body between the legs. cut into pieces for
serving

Profusely

Mrs. Doi had ripped her thumbs apart. When you rip something, you tear it quickly or forcefull

whodunit.
I'm looking at a shoe that's a one-to-one with a ruler in it.

he wore wingtips

circumstantial evidence here. that refers to specific details about something: in other words, about
circumstances. Circumstantial evidence might implicate someone's guilt, but it certainly doesn't prove them
guilty.

My partner goes off, eventually, to retire.

we decided to hook up. connect or link.“hook up the houses to the gas supply line”

I was in my cups that night." : drunk

Frank's letting me down easy.

Frank Salerno, the almost bigger-than-life… murder cop, exaggerated or important

the boogeyman. as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.

He was notorious for eating sunflower seeds and spitting the shells out all over the place.

I was tickled pink. I was flying. very pleased:

three-quarters of a million people

it's expected to stay that way right on through the 4th of July.

The killer was very enraged. full of anger

He viciously cut her throat, then he stabbed her in that slash. When you do something viciously, you do it in
a cruel or brutal way. If you slash something, you make a long, deep cut in it.

Gil and I roll out to the Cannon case,

She had her throat slit,

there is a fabric mark and blood… on the windowsill, cloth

, her bedroom in a disarray. disorganized,

You really want to get your hands on that individual.

hair's in a bun,

She's got a pink comforter

Right after we saw the footprint,

Now it's in black and white in front of you.

There's no denying it.

but once Frank got on board,

Picked up the phone called the captain right away.

let's go at it

on a hillside

an embankment t is a thick wall of earth that is built to carry a road or railway over an area of low ground, or
to prevent water from a river or the sea from flooding the area.
It stood out right away.

their bodies found scattered in hilly areas… they’re spread out all over the place.

was found in a secluded lover's lane… A secluded place is isolated, away from other people. It's quiet, and
there's not a lot going on. A lane is a relatively narrow street or road.

all of them…dumped on hillsides, where they would be easy to spot.

they were posed.

there was no sign of a struggle ever with any of the victims. When they were taken off the street

I've never been a hunter. I'm a city slicker. If you live in New York and are completely comfortable with your
fast-paced urban lifestyle, you're a city slicker — a city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothin

blunt force trauma. A blunt object is rounded — it isn't very pointy.

dissimilarity. the quality of being dissimilar, difference; unlikeness

it was just still.

And when he pushed down with his feet to shove that window up, If you shove someone or something, you
push them with a quick, violent movement.

And he looks at them hard,

I happened to be working graveyards

and there's been an attempted break-in out at Pico.

He also provided me with spreadsheets of sales data that I brought back.

The suspect had entered through a rear door.

She was taped with electrical tape…

spread-eagle, to a four-poster bed…

He had put his foot on the clock and yanked on the electrical cord, because part of the binding of the legs
and the hands,

Was he maybe copycatting…

The victim fights the suspect off and escapes.

He got him out of the car and made him put his hands on the hood of his car as he patted him down for

weapons.

Just took off running.

We basically There's a natural competitiveness.

Who gets the most publicity, who doesn't, all that stuff plays into it. get stonewalled. delay giving a clear
answer or making a clear decision, often because there is something that they want to hide or avoid doing.

So, when you have a multi-jurisdictional situation,

it becomes a pissing match amongst a bunch of type-A personality, macho dudes. Type A personality traits,
including competitiveness, time urgency, and a tendency toward workaholism, can be seen (particularly by
Type A people) as beneficial for career success.1 In contrast, Type B personalities tend to be less focused on
competitiveness and more on enjoying the journey.
People are protecting their turf, tərf

and by protecting their turf, they're not sharing information.

Knowing how these things play out eventually.

You're in it for the long run. You got to stay down the middle.

"We need each other to ride through the highs

and pick ourselves up in the lows."

Every ounce that I had to give, I gave.

I ran out in the backyard

and I could see through the top brick

The suspect had lifted out the cat door, pulled it right on out, and gained entry into the residence.

he lifted up one leg and…started taking off his shoe,

and his pager went off,

She was probably only about 5'2",

maybe weighed a little bit over 100 pounds,

I always called her spunky. A spunky person shows courage.

I think that's what kept her going as a single mother for many, many years, and kept her so strong.
do cartwheels.

Pair of black slacks, white blouse, some kind of saddle shoe or something,

doing cartwheels all over the place out front.

I'd bring my roller skates,

and I'd be roller skating up and down the street.

Don's on the driveway,

He literally stomped the side of her head and left a footprint on it.

the same man involved in a mid-May break-in

There was something afoot. If you say that a plan or scheme is afoot, it is already happening or being
planned, but you do not know much about it. Everybody knew that something awful was afoot.

They went on a news frenzy. In a frenzy, people go into a state of hysteria.

Story's running at every newscast. -[anchorman] Latest update…

This is big stuff.

Now we're a full-fledged task force. Something that's full-fledged is completely developed, or fully qualified.
A full-fledged meal, as far as your mom's concerned, might include meat, potatoes, and a vegetable
he slammed his hand down on the table and started cussing.

The only problem is the guy's a midget.

There is a back-and-forth between investigators and reporters.

won't say anything that might tip his killer

He and his partner, 35-year-old Gil Carrillo, have too much at stake.

that case is going to be a great advantage in cracking this one. to solve or decipher (a code or problem) He
has finally cracked the code after years of painstaking research.

I wanted to hook her up for extortion. to meet with someone, or to begin a relationship, esp. for a particular
purpose:

I just tried to…I pull in my driveway, I was starting to get short-tempered, tending to become angry quickly

and easily

some guys crawl into a bottle

where we would debrief. When you debrief someone, you interview the person. The men have been
debriefed by officials.

It's still being stored or impounded

they put that in there and we pulled our guys off.

And my grandfather was salt of the earth. The phrase is often used to compliment someone who is down-
to-earth and unpretentious, and it is typically used to express admiration and respect for someone's
character.

I went through that room and down the hallway to where their bedroom was
It looked like a struggle had ensued. Result, follow

The suspect had entered the rear slider,

the left side of her nostril, A nostril is one of the two holes in your nose through which you breathe, smell,
and (sometimes) sneeze. Try not to get anything stuck in your nostrils; they're important passageways!

and the bullet lodged in the back side of her neck.

The unusual thing about the shell casings was that there was a red primer.

I made the flippant remark that. treating serious matters with inappropriate light-heartedness or lack of
respect

The telltale sign, revealing ,significant

looky-loos.

they want to blow smoke up somebody's wazoo." a rude phrase meaning to lie to someone in a way that
flatters them (= makes them feel praised and important, successful, etc.): People who constantly tell you
what you WANT to hear ...Feeding someone's ego with constant adoration and commentary. Add up all the
comments above, and it seems a lot of folks are blowing smoke up a lot of other folk's rears.

We put out an all-points bulletin. You have to put out an all-points bulletin immediately.

They suggested that we do a ballistics check on our slugs

the newsroom

I nudged Gil and I said, "Look at that."

This is a statewide wave of terror.

There was grim news today

And I went through the roof.

Absolutely livid.

for coming out at this late hour on such short notice.

we felt it necessary to disseminate

has significantly jeopardized the investigation that is underway.

A week ago, we did not have a great deal to work on,

but as of this moment, we have one heck of a lot less.

you took two men that are down-and-out tired…

where the stolen car was spotted.

and they were able to pull a latent fingerprint off the rear-view mirror

where apparently the suspect reached up and adjusted it.

surrenders a bracelet

And I struck a short jab.

and I flashed back on crime scenes.

and I started over the backseat,

hellbent on…

demolishing this guy.

I have been coming up with ways

Some petty thievery, grand theft auto,

We're going with a media blitz.

was that Richard Ramirez used the Greyhound bus depot.

pulled the cord.

had flagged down a truck from the gas company

And ran across all lanes of the freeway.

And he tried to carjack one gentleman.

In Spanish, he hollered to give him the keys or he would kill me.

poked my tongue out at them

we hauled.

He was, like, awestruck. That was a hero to him,

We got the impression it's a lynch mob.

like a motorcade.

You could see that he was taken over that.

And Richard just got all jazzed. He was excited.

Who's to say at some point he wasn't going to tell the jailer

We didn't see that as a very kosher thing to do,

There's a difference in defending somebody for petty theft or burglary

Let alone one that involved, you know, 13, 14 victims.

You know, no strikeouts. Please, no strikeouts.

Richard Ramirez stuns a packed courtroom

as this wound its way through the courts.

It's bewildering because Richard Ramirez wouldn't reciprocate.

What do you say we dismiss all the kiddie cases?"

Ramirez was brought in shackles to his trial,

and she sat through all of it.

I remember at some point he kind of lifted up the sleeves of his jacket and when he turned his hand over,

Everything for me is a blur after that.

the point of conviction.

my wife just leaned over and said,

I don't need to hear all of society's rationalizations.

and he flat asked,

and it was very, very eerie. Very…surreal.

And he laughed this very fiendish laugh.

and then go off on a tangent for the next four to five months

where he goes on a killing spree.

when I'm most impressionable,

Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

I didn't know if the something was in the house,

or the something was half in or out of the house.