#Paul Holes

[nevinslibrary]

Not A Book Friday

This is not quite your typical true crime podcast. For one thing, Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, the two hosts are looking at older cases, and ones that have either been solved, or if they haven’t, they’re so old that they’re not even cold cases anymore. The other difference is that the podcast is very, very, very focused on the forensics of each case. Or, at least however much forensics they have from the time that the crimes happened. That only works because Paul Holes is a pretty famous retired forensics investigator.

So, for each episode (sometimes two episodes) Kate brings in a case, and, they talk about it. Yes, yes, it sounds as though it could be boring, but it isn’t. Especially when they are talking about really old cases. Also, Kate and Paul have such camaraderie and a good back and forth on the show. Even if they’re doing a case that I don’t like quite as much (usually because it’s much more modern than some that they do), they’re still enjoyable to listen to.

A definite must listen for those who like CSI, Bones, or any of the other many forensics shows and books!

Buried Bones

[we-are-all-of-legend-now]

This was cited as a source for a true crime podcast I really admire, so I'm giving it a shot, even though some of the reviews I've seen aren't particularly found of how Paul Holes portrays himself.

Summary: From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest cold cases and the rewards--and toll--of a life solving crime.

I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I’m 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’t 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’ve had plenty of both. But I had always taken pride in the fact that I can keep my feelings locked up to get the job done. It’s 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—even fatherhood—because the pursuit of evil always came first. Did I make the right choice? It’s 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. “I don’t know if I can solve your case,” I whisper. “But I promise I will do my best.”

It is a promise I know I can keep.

[hamlet-not-hamnet]

haunting him to this day i fear

[pondanimal]

julia

@m1ssunderstanding

[okaydiscount]

a break between contracts :)

[nikidontsurf]

PAUL McCARTNEY constantly touching his hair in THE BEATLES: GET BACK

[thestarsarecool]

“I was pretty lucky on the LSD front, in that it didn’t screw things up too badly. There was a scary element to it, of course. The really scary element was that when you wanted it to stop, it wouldn’t. You’d say, ‘Okay, that’s enough, party’s over,’ and it would say, ‘No it isn’t.’ So you would have to go to bed seeing things.

Around that time, when I closed my eyes, instead of there being blackness there was a little blue hole. It was as if something needed patching. I always had the feeling that if I could go up to it and look through, there would be an answer. Now, I could go on about how the wordplay in Bing Crosby’s song ‘Please’ – ‘Oh, Please / Lend your little ear to my pleas’ – might be informing the wordplay in ‘And it really doesn’t matter if I’m wrong I’m right / Where I belong’. The fact is that the most important influence here was not even the metaphysical idea of a hole, which I mentioned earlier, but this absolutely physical phenomenon – something that first appeared after I took acid. I still see it occasionally, and I know exactly what it is. I know exactly what size it is.”

— Paul McCartney on “Fixing a Hole”, The Lyrics

[sunskaiis]

recently (2+ weeks ago) read the tf2 comics and i haven’t been normal about it since so i redrew some of my favorite panels for funsies <3

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow | 1959

[ahhrenata]

i like these two :)

[tightjeansjavi]

Ridley Scott really put three of the hottest and talented men in Hollywood rn into one movie and we just let him get away with it? 🫠

How am I supposed to focus on just one of them on the screen??

You’re gonna make me choose just one??

I have 3 holes for a reason smh 😔🙏🏻

[nevinslibrary]

Totally Random Non-Fiction Tuesday

I think that he's one of the hosts on a newish podcast that I listen to about really really really really cold cases, Buried Bones? (Watch for a Not a Book Friday with that in the coming year!) This is his memoir though. It’s his first person look at his life solving cold cases. He’s the detective that found the Golden State Killer, but, that’s not the only big cold case he’s solved, and he’s also solved cold cases that didn’t get humongous press and instead mattered most to those friends and family of the deceased.

All of that and more is in this book, and, it’s an intense read for sure. Reading it gave me a sort of origin story for when I listen to new Buried Bones episodes now too. As I said, intense, but, such a great read too.

You may like this book If you Liked: Chase Darkness With Me by Billy Jensen, All That Remains by Sue M. Black, or I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes

[kyurochurro]

WOAH!! 4 of them 🤔✨🌷🎸🎶🇬🇧

been watching A Hard Day’s Night a lot during these finals weeks!! have some Beatles :D

extra B&W version!!

[menlove]

losing mutuals to the beatles obsession is fine but losing mutuals who have been flooding my dash w like. kpop and hockey rpf for YEARS to beatles posting is simply. laughing-duck-with-cigarette.gif

[rozzsum]

[…] less than a god, more than a man.

There is no measuring Muad’Dib’s motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then?

“I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough.”

“The Fremen have the word of Muad’Dib,” Paul said. “There will be flowing water here open to the sky and green oases rich with good things.

Dune: Part One / Dune: Part Two / Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert / Dune by Frank Herbert

[bargainoriley]

Don’t know if this has been done before but… here’s a random Beatles meme I created!