He pulled up his computer and ran a search. Sure enough about fifty-five years ago a lab was closed down for doing illegal gene experimentation on children. According to the case notes they had been trying to freeze aging at some 'optimum' age. Several test subjects had been taken into custody, but not one was still living. There was always the possibility of a backdoor deal to increase funding. These labs and their desperate experiments to stop aging were almost as pervasive as the people who used children for their own pleasure. Joe didn't think either was an indication of a healthy society.
He had started this case with his normal hard-nosed attitude that all people were deserving of fair treatment. Anyone who took liberties with the life of another person could expect Joe to show up a
