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witnesses at a crime scene: “The responding officer should have identified any witnesses and separated them from everyone else. Nothing makes a detective madder than seeing all his witnesses in a huddle discussing the case. The witness is then taken to a quiet place and interviewed in what is hopefully a neutral, fact-finding manner. Witnesses can be easily swayed so questions like ‘Was the gun black?’ are not acceptable, as it gives the witnesses only the option of yes or no. If the gun was black with a chrome slide, an investigator who does not know how to interview a witness will never discover this information.”
    The Zombie Factor
     
    Let’s face it, the first few people who report zombie attacks are going to fall into two categories: those who will think they’re seeing something else that doesn’t involve zombies and those who report seeing a zombie and aren’t believed.
    The first kind will be the most common because the phrase “hey, I think that’s a zombie attack” just isn’t likely to pop into most people’s heads. Even if we see a vicious fight and someone is getting bitten, the assumption will very likely be: Some crazy person is attacking that guy. Maybe followed by “I’d better call this in,” or “I’d better mind my own business,” or even “I’d better get the hell out of here.”
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    Why Zombies?
     
 
“Because we can identify with zombies so easily. If we sit in front of the television, we’re zombies. When we work at a repetitive job we become robotic zombies; when we wait in lines we feel like cattle or zombies, when you get tired you feel like a zombie…eyes glazed over…it’s late…I am a zombie…”—Dan McConnell, comic book writer, penciler, and inker who has worked on The X-Men, Captain Universe , and Zombies of Liberty
     
     
“Why Zombies you ask? And I say why not? I’m not sure why people are so fascinated by zombies but I’d have to say that it has to do with man’s innate fear of death. In a way it allows him to see death after death, and that is a scary thing. Sort of like letting someone walk into a morgue to see a body under the sheet and asking them if they want to pick up the sheet and take one quick peek at the body. I think that most people have a sick enough sense of curiosity that they would want to take just a peek.”—David A. Prior, writer/director Zombie Wars (2006).
     
     
“Zombies are a blank screen onto which we can project whatever fears we are having as a society. Zombies can represent our unease over terrorists, super-viruses, nuclear war, crime or civil unrest. And often in zombie stories, only a few humans are left to fight the zombies off, and I think that taps into something universal as well—our fear of being left alone. Or perhaps a fear of those closest to us dying, leaving us alone to fend for ourselves in a hostile world. As a society, we also place a high importance on the physical body. In missing persons cases or murders, we often hear people talk about the need to find the “remains” and give them a proper burial. But in a zombie story, it is that physical vessel—the human body—that refuses to rest easy. There is no closure after death in a zombie story. I think that’s terrifying.”—David Jack Bell, author of The Condemned (Delirium Books, 2008).
     
     
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    Art of the Dead—Lisa Anne Riley
     

     
    Dead Heads
     
“I like to see more about the zombies’ view on things. Even with primitive brains they must have some form of thought regarding what has happened to them. Did they leave an ‘afterlife’? Are they upset over leaving it? Does it physically hurt to be dead? Emotionally? Can they still feel any range of emotion?”
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    The credibility of the witness in such a case will always be in question until overwhelming corroborating evidence is brought forth. And even then there will be resistance to the idea. Even the integrity of the individual witness doesn’t really help