_Canvass_ > "examine, pore over, search"

[Wilson Gray]

True-crime voice-overer:

"Thousands canvassed the vast, hot, unforgiving California desert for her
body."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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