Mr. Heirens spent days in police custody and was given truth serum and a spinal tap before confessing to the Degnan killing and the earlier slayings of two women.

[…] The pity came, When on her brow, that little trouble-dint, Or the mouth drooped in disappointedness.

Were one to draw a profile of generalized altitudes of the landmass of Ling-nan and Kuei-chou Yun-nan in a southeast-northwest direction, the profile that emerges would represent a step-like formation from the sea to the Tibetan Plateau with five major steps. The first would represent the Kuang-tung lowlands below about 1500-feet.

Any predator that preys on animals that herd or school, has to be able to single out one individual to attack.