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He was born in rural Missouri, and it was immediately clear that he was different from the rest. He caught his first criminal when he was just two years old. By his sixth birthday, he had located burglars, missing children, drug dealers, rapists, and murderersincluding Utahs most wanted criminal. Known to friends as JJ, to law enforcement as Michael Serios partner, and to captured criminals as that damned dog, Jessie Jr., an exceptionally talented bloodhound, bayed like a sea lion that had swallowed a fog horn.Before JJ, few police departments in the West used bloodhounds, and none in Utah. But just when JJ was finally convincing naysayers, he and Officer Serio ran into something worse than resistance the despair of failure amid high hope. JJ had been tracking Brian David Mitchell, the man who abducted Elizabeth Smart, when he was pulled off the track.



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Adam David Russ

Adam David Russ is assistant editor of the Blue Moon Literary & Art Review. His short stories have appeared in Paradigm, The Battered Suitcase, and the collection All in the Game. They have garnered awards from Writer's Digest, The Baltimore Review, and New Millennium Writings and have been performed at Stories on Stage. A former military brat, Peace Corps volunteer, economist, and mathematics teacher, Adam is currently working on his next narrative nonfiction book. He lives in Northern California with his wife and son.



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