Quotation

Morgue

a Life in Death
Death offers us a lot of puzzles, too, but I think death’s mystery is in what we can see, not what is hidden. The clues are always there for us to find whatever answers we seek. It’s not unnatural to look and wonder … it’s unnatural to walk away. === Three decades had passed since she went to prison for murdering Chelsea McClellan. Her mug shot no longer pictures a cold-eyed thirtysomething but a dour, sagging frump, more lunch lady than serial killer. === Two villains emerged in this tragedy. One was Genene Jones, a psychopathic serial killer whose true death toll might never be known. The other was a political hospital culture that covered its own ass rather than face the truth. === During Jones’s time in the hospital’s pediatric ward, forty-two babies died. Thirty-four of them—four out of every five of the hospital’s dead babies—died while Jones was on duty. Other nurses began calling Jones’s three-to-eleven tour the “death shift.”