Punches out nearly hours later then drives half a mile to his little beige house on a hill where in the distance he can glimpse the appalachian mountains.
I have a goal he replies though he describes it as a calling.
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he spends the next seven to eight hours at his desk beneath shelves lined with miniature plastic skulls immersed in a very different world.
Today the doe network has volunteers and chapters in every state. Who were her siblings what was her name
matthews began searching library records and police reports not even sure what he was seeking.
At matthews is a sensitive soul who has always felt an affinity for the dead perhaps because two of his siblings died just after birth. John and jane and baby does whose nameless bodies have never been identified.
He wants to give does back their names.
Their faces seem to float from his computer — morgue photographs artist sketches forensic reconstructions — thousands of dead eyes staring from endless web sites as though crying out for recognition.