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In 1984, when I decided to reopen the cases, I was really concerned because in talking to some other detectives and other people around, they were under the impression that the cases were closed.

And I knew better. I knew that, you know, there had been a massive investigation of the Green Vega guys,

but the evidence eventually showed that that was a farce,

that they didn't have anything to do with it.

So I decided I was going to take up the banner of these cases

because they should have been close.

There wasn't a real emotional toll on me.

When I went to homicide, my primary reason for going to homicide was to handle all the infant

deaths, the child deaths in the city, the abortion cases.

And so seeing young people dead, you don't ever get used to it, but you know that's part of your job.

And once you break down and cry and so forth, then you're not serving the public

because your personal feelings get in the way of what you're trying to accomplish.

You know, after you work so hard on a case and you talk to so many people, you kind of get

a feeling of what types of young ladies they were.

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