John Moore explicitly states a connection between the Fig Newton and Newton Massachusetts.
The gentleman who works at the the Bureau of Indian Affairs says that Commissioner Roosevelt has a way of "falling up," that is, even when he fails he succeeds. A similar, but diametrically opposed expression, "failing up," refers to someone who is promoted to prevent that person from compromising real work done at the lower rungs of the corporate ladder.
New Paltz is a town which lies halfway between New York City and Albany, the capitol of New York State.
The sheriff Sara meets with is the Sheriff of Ulster County, the Ulster County Sheriff's Department was founded in 1683, making it one of the oldest sheriff's departments in the country. The oldest department is the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Department in Maryland, their first sheriff was appointed in 1637, making it the first sheriff's department in the United States.
Psychopathia Sexualis, commonly known as "Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study", is a book written in 1886 by German psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing. It is one of the first clinical texts on sexual pathology and paraphilias, and focuses heavily on male homosexuality/bisexuality. The book coined the terms "sadism and masochism", which is also described in detail, prior to its publishing the notion of a person inflicting pain on others for sexual pleasure and release was largely unheard of, even in the circles of psychology and law enforcement. It is also one of the earliest works on homosexuality, Krafft-Ebing theorized that homosexuality was a mental illness caused by exposure to degenerate behavior, at the time of its publication the book was very controversial, especially with main-stream Christianity which taught that homosexuality was one of the devil's perversions/temptations and anyone that was homosexual chose to give into temptation and sin against God; the notion that homosexuals did not choose to be what they are angered a great many in the Catholic Church, and other churches. The book had considerable influence on late 19th and early 20th century forensic psychiatry and helped psychiatrists, psychologists and law enforcement better understand the behavior and thinking of violent criminals.