{"id":177,"date":"2022-04-26T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robingabyfisher.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2024-09-01T20:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T00:30:51","slug":"unmasked-my-life-solving-americas-cold-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robingabyfisher.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/26\/unmasked-my-life-solving-americas-cold-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, a memoir that \u201cgrabs its reader in a stranglehold and proves more fascinating than fiction and darker than any noir narrative.\u201d (LA Magazine<\/em>)

I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don\u2019t even know how I got here, to this place, to this\u00a0point<\/em>. Something is happening to me lately. I\u2019m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it, trying to forget about the latest case I can\u2019t shake.

Crime solving for me is more complex than the challenge of the hunt, or the process of piecing together a scientific puzzle. The thought of good people suffering drives me, for better or worse, to the point of obsession. People always ask how I am able to detach from the horrors of my work. Part of it is an innate capacity to compartmentalize; the rest is experience and exposure, and I\u2019ve had plenty of both. But I have always taken pride in the fact that I can keep my feelings locked up to get the job done. It\u2019s only been recently that it feels like all that suppressed darkness is beginning to seep out.

When I look back at my long career, there is a lot I am proud of. I have caught some of the most notorious killers of the twenty-first century and brought justice and closure for their victims and families. I want to tell you about a lifetime solving these cold cases, from Laci Peterson to Jaycee Dugard to the Pittsburg homicides to, yes, my twenty-year-long hunt for the Golden State Killer.

But a deeper question eats at me as I ask myself, at what cost? I have sacrificed relationships, joy\u2015even fatherhood\u2015because the pursuit of evil always came first. Did I make the right choice? It\u2019s something I grapple with every day. Yet as I stand in the spot where a young girl took her last breath, as I look into the eyes of her family, I know that, for me, there has never been a choice. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I can solve your case,\u201d I whisper. \u201cBut I promise I will do my best.\u201d

It is a promise I know I can keep.<\/h4>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, a memoir that \u201cgrabs its reader in a stranglehold and proves more fascinating than fiction and darker than any noir narrative.\u201d (LA Magazine) I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don\u2019t even know how I got … <\/p>\n

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