They stare at you from another time.

For long forgotten roles of film, the looks.

Are they provocative or haunted, worried, vacant?

They don't all look like they were willing participants

in being photographed.

Some are actually crying at the time

and have the look of fear on their faces.

Who are these ghosts?

Are they alive or dead?

And how did they come to be where they are?

Deep in the center of the vast, unpretty belly of LA County,

on a winding street lined with bland industrial warehouses,

is the LA County Sheriff's Homicide Division.

At a huge room, chock full of brown paper cases.

In each one, an unsolved mystery.

Each one, the story of a life taken, at a case unresolved.

Rape are strangled, suffocated.

Each of the desks in that room is occupied by a sheriff's detective

who works for the dead.

Oh man, this is not looking good for her.

And in the case of Bobby Taylor,

who was once one of those detectives, a long forgotten.

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