“What if the killer is from a very wealthy family? Suppose the parents discover their son is the killer and send him off to Europe for psychiatric treatment. The family name is spared, their son is receiving treatment, and they are sure no one else will be killed. They can live with that.”

MSP Lt. Joe Koenig, quoted in The Detroit News on March 16, 1980.  

“We went over those tips so many times. I don’t think it will do any good [to reexamine tips]. But they can do what they want.”

MSP OCCK Task Force Commander Robert Robertson, March 16, 1980, in response to a reexamination of tips by a MSP lieutenant assigned to same in January of that year.  

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
–Maya Angelou