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Bauun belt "What have you got?"

A cowboy, I toldHe looked like a batboy for alared at me as if I had just questioned his mother’s occupation

"Boyd," he snapped

"Well, Boyd, it’s like I told dispatch" I used my chin to point at the woman "This woman wants to report a dead boyfriend"

The wo at her reflection in my car door

"Ma’am?" Baumbach asked tentatively

The woman didn’t answer

"What’s your name, ma’am? Ma’am? You reported a dead body, ma’am?"

No reply

"Do you live here,

Bauue state," I said

"A what?"

"A pathological condition in which a person is conscious of her actions yet has no real control over the"

"What do you know about it?"

"I read"

From Baumbach’s expression, you’d think I had just confessed to downloading kiddie porn He turned toward the house

"I’ in," he announced

"Yeah? You do that I’ll see ya around"

"Where do you think you’re going?"

"Hey, o, people to see"

"No, no, no, no, no You stay right here"