Bibliograph

Unmasked, crime scenes, cold cases and my hunt for the Golden State Killer, Paul Holes with Robin Gaby Fisher

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Unmasked, crime scenes, cold cases and my hunt for the Golden State Killer, Paul Holes with Robin Gaby Fisher

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unmasked

Responsibility statement

Paul Holes with Robin Gaby Fisher

Sub title

crime scenes, cold cases and my hunt for the Golden State Killer

Summary

From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America's toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll - of a life spent solving crime. For a decade, from 1973, the Golden State Killer stalked and murdered Californians in the dead of night, leaving entire communities afraid to turn off the lights. Then he vanished without a trace. In 1994, when cold-case investigator Paul Holes came across the old file, he swore he would unmask GSK and finally give these families some closure. Twenty-four years later, Holes fulfilled that promise, identifying an elderly former cop named Joseph J. DeAngelo. Headlines blasted around the world: one of America's most prolific serial killers had been caught. That case launched Paul's career into the stratosphere, turning him into an icon in the true-crime world. But while everyone knows the story of Paul's capture of GSK, until now, no one has truly known the man behind it all. In UNMASKED, Paul takes us through his memories of a storied career and provides an insider account of some of the most notorious cases in contemporary American history, including the Zodiac Killer and Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping. But this is also a revelatory profile of a complex man and what makes him tick: the drive to find closure for victims and their loved ones; the inability to walk away from a challenge - even at the expense of his own happiness. This is a story about the gritty truth of crime solving when there are no 'case closed' headlines. It is the story of a man and his commitment to his cases, and to the people who might have otherwise been forgotten

Table Of Contents

The end of the road -- Last act -- Beginnings -- Lab rat -- Moving up -- EAT -- CSI -- Abernathy -- Connecting the dots -- The end of a marriage -- Antioch -- Conaty and Giacomelli -- Bodfish -- Serial killers -- EAR breakthrough -- Postmortem -- Changes -- Small victories -- Hurricane holes -- EAR revisited -- Him -- Roller coaster -- Michelle -- The murders -- Joseph James DeAngelo -- Operation Golden State killer -- Is it him? -- A sense of purpose

Target audience

adult

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