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“Over the past two years,” he says, “four prostitutes have had their throats slashed.  The first one was in a hotel room, I believe, but the rest were all in alleys and such.  The last one was about a month ago and someone apparently called 9-1-1 with the description of the vehicle.  It was either a black Cadillac or a Lincoln.  Minneapolis PD sent a teletype to all of the law enforcement agencies across the state, and what do you know I see this big black Lincoln ahead of me.  The eyewitness also said there was a bumper sticker on it too, something about if you can read this blah-blah-blah.  Well, this Lincoln also had a bumper sticker: Honk If You Love Jesus.  Or something like that.  He was driving north right on this road here, going exactly fifty-five.

“I radioed in to the dispatcher and gave her the twenty-eight—that’s a license plate, if you didn’t know.  Know what she said?  The car was from Minneapolis.  Holy shit, was my heart beating.  I told her what I thought I had.  She didn’t believe me.  Not at first, anyway.  What were the chances that this guy would be all the way up north here?”