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Detective Brian Evans has known Detective Kim Major a long time.

I started actually the same day as Detective Major did.

It was actually on my birthday, September 29th, 1997 is the day we started.

They had been rookies together on the Ashland Police Force,

partnered up on a lot of cases.

Over time, they formed a close bond,

the type where they could finish each other's sentences.

They each had their specialties.

Evans was a narcotics detective.

And Major?

She's a very good interviewer. I think most of that comes from her drive to help.

She can be very relatable to the suspects and they find it very easy to talk with her.

Like Major, Evans had grown up in the area.

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