Dr. Jeffrey Smalldon

I suppose it is.

I mean, I think of it, it's mainly a memoir, true crime second, but it's got some pretty dark stuff in it for sure.

probably giving me a little more credit than I deserved, actually.

I was very young and pretty stupid in most ways in some of the early things reported in my book.

Yeah.

You probably learned early on in your career to do this same thing, and I did too.

Otherwise, I couldn't have done my job, and that's to compartmentalize pretty well.

I mean, you have to be a good compartmentalizer.

Weirdly, I've been asked that question before, and I didn't really bring a lot of it home with me.

During most of my career, I had a wife, two young kids.

And for whatever reason, this maybe says something pathological about me.

I don't know.

But I never had nightmares about the crime scene photos.

And I wasn't the one doing crime scene analysis like you probably.

But I saw the photographs of some of the most gruesome crime scenes imaginable.

I think I became good at compartmentalizing.

I think that's right.

You focus on what you're doing.

This is my job.

And, you know, you just you couldn't take that home with you.