Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales Of Police Dog Jj And His Two-Legged Partner
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 murderers—including Utah’s most wanted criminal. Known to friends as JJ, to law enforcement as Michael Serio’s 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. Elizabeth later told investigators that on the day she was kidnapped she heard a dog baying in the woods behind her.

In almost nine years of service, JJ helped apprehend nearly 300 criminal suspects in the Salt Lake City area. Here is his remarkable story, fleas and all.

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Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales Of Police Dog Jj And His Two-Legged Partner
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 murderers—including Utah’s most wanted criminal. Known to friends as JJ, to law enforcement as Michael Serio’s 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. Elizabeth later told investigators that on the day she was kidnapped she heard a dog baying in the woods behind her.

In almost nine years of service, JJ helped apprehend nearly 300 criminal suspects in the Salt Lake City area. Here is his remarkable story, fleas and all.

Click here to view the trailer for Bloodhound in Blue.

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Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales Of Police Dog Jj And His Two-Legged Partner

Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales Of Police Dog Jj And His Two-Legged Partner

by Adam Russ
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Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales Of Police Dog Jj And His Two-Legged Partner

by Adam Russ

Overview

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 murderers—including Utah’s most wanted criminal. Known to friends as JJ, to law enforcement as Michael Serio’s 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. Elizabeth later told investigators that on the day she was kidnapped she heard a dog baying in the woods behind her.

In almost nine years of service, JJ helped apprehend nearly 300 criminal suspects in the Salt Lake City area. Here is his remarkable story, fleas and all.

Click here to view the trailer for Bloodhound in Blue.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762785384
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 07/16/2013
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 536,984
Product dimensions: 6.42(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.96(d)

About the Author

Adam David Russ is assistant editor of the Blue Moon Literary & Art Review. His short stories have appeared in Paradigm,The Battered Suitcase,andthe 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.  Click here to view the trailer for Bloodhound in Blue.

Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

Introduction: Pedigree xi

Part 1 Rookies and Puppies

1 General Character 3

2 Temperament 15

3 Height 27

4 Wrinkle 37

5 Ears 51

6 Head 59

7 Foreface 67

8 Mouth 79

9 Nostrils 91

Part 2 Heroes and Goats

10 Lips, Flews, and Dewlap 109

11 Expression 119

12 Weight 129

13 Color 149

14 Skull 157

15 Neck, Shoulders, and Chest 169

16 Legs and Feet 179

17 Eyes 191

Part 3 Legends and Lions

18 Back and Loin 199

19 Stern 211

20 Gait 225

Epilogue: Legacy 237

Acknowledgments 245

Notes and Sources 249

Index 267

About the Author 274

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