{"id":55419,"date":"2025-01-14T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=55419"},"modified":"2025-01-03T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T17:51:59","slug":"unmasked-my-life-solving-americas-cold-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/unmasked-my-life-solving-americas-cold-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmasked: My Life Solving America\u2019s Cold Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Most famous for his work on Laci Peterson, Jaycee Dugard, and the Golden State Killer, cold case investigator Paul Holes goes deep<\/a> on the cases he couldn\u2019t shake and the personal toll of internalizing others\u2019 trauma in Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. \u00a0If you\u2019re the family of a victim, you\u2019d pray your manila folder ends up on his desk. \u00a0But if you were in Holes\u2019 family, you were just hoping he\u2019d leave that selfsame cubicle. \u00a0Every now and then Holes blows a long-dormant case wide open, but it comes at significant psychic cost. Side effects of delayed justice include divorce, night sweats, and increased bourbon consumption. \u00a0Family members wondered if they even knew the man muttering case details to himself.<\/p>\n

The forensic vigilante\u2019s obsessions additionally found him at odds with his superiors when reaching out of jurisdiction. \u00a0Call it clich\u00e9, but Holes is a loose cannon who doesn\u2019t do things by the book. \u00a0So, he turned in his badge after 27 years, today working as a \u00a0strong proponent of DNA sequencing, resurrecting lost causes with fresh eyes and fresher technology. \u00a0Not sold yet?\u00a0 Just pen a letter to Joseph DeAngelo<\/a> for a testimonial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most famous for his work on Laci Peterson, Jaycee Dugard, and the Golden State Killer, cold case investigator Paul Holes goes deep on the cases he couldn\u2019t shake and the personal toll of internalizing others\u2019 trauma in Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases. \u00a0If you\u2019re the family of a[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[9739,9740,676,9738,9737],"class_list":["post-55419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-cold-cases","tag-criminal-investigations","tag-nonfiction","tag-paul-holes","tag-unmasked"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-epR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55423,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55419\/revisions\/55423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}