His colleague, Stallings, is one of the most playful of the investigators. Because you realize that it happens and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. I don't care to work those. Heriford seconds that. If you think some of these things don't bother us, you're wrong.
Kids have an effect on everybody.
That thought trips his memory of an elderly woman who had shot herself to death. The death scene is still vivid in Heriford's mind, in part because it was so unusual. The woman was found lying on her back on her bed, with a towel behind her head to absorb the blood. She had put a gun to her mouth and pulled the trigger. I still think about her.