I worked in law enforcement for years; you learn pretty quickly not to get heavily invested in people, any more than you get invested in the guy behind you in line at the grocery store who cheerfully picks up the shoe your kid kicked off. There are so many horrible people in this world who manage to hide behind a veil of normalcy that can go decades without ever being pierced. You’d lose your faith in humanity if you researched every single person who came through. I already have serious issues with trusting men I’ve known for years because the sheer number of otherwise-normal dudes who get popped for something stupid, then turn out to be long-term child sexual abusers, is ridiculous. I cannot express to you how many men are caught with child sex abuse materials. Not even exaggerating, one out of every three cases involved child sex abuse in some way, and these are suppose to be the best men society has to offer. I don’t want to know anymore. I sometimes look at my neighbors and wonder, statistically, how many of them are, too, and it caused issues with my own marriage for awhile where I had to be sure my husband wasn’t one of them.

And you don’t always know when someone’s going to be sensational, for lack of a better word. Once in awhile we can guess, but it’s weird what the public decides who’s worthy of notoriety. We figure it out in retrospect, obviously, but by then you’re already onto the next guy.