care at the time.
Even when pressed, the criminals
interviewed by Decker and Wright
“remained indifferent to threatened
sanctions.” They just weren’t thinking
that far ahead.
The murder of his daughter made
Reynolds want to put the fear of God
into California’s would-be criminals—
to make them think twice before crossing
the line. But that strategy doesn’t work if
criminals think like this. Joe Davis and
Douglas Walker—the two thugs who
cornered Kimber Reynolds outside the
Daily Planet—were crystal-meth
addicts. Earlier that day, they had