CRIMECON & CELADON BOOKS PRESENT
PAUL HOLES UNMASKED:
BOOK LAUNCH PARTY
FRIDAY, APRIL 29: 8:30P | BREAKOUT TWO (VENDOME) IN PARIS HOTEL
You know Paul Holes, but do you really know Paul Holes?
In his new book UNMASKED, Holes reveals to readers the man behind the investigator–including the personal toll his years of heart-wrenching investigations have taken. The book has been a lifetime in the making so come out and celebrate the launch with Paul and friends with a party that could only happen at CrimeCon.
Your ticket to the UNMASKED party
includes a signed copy of the book (UNMASKED will be on sale April 26th), as well as access to what should be an unforgettable night of inside stories, laughs…and maybe a few tears.
GENERAL ADMISSION
This is a limited capacity event & requires a separate ticket from your CrimeCon 2022 badge.
Your ticket includes a signed copy of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes ($29 value). No food will be provided and no outside food is allowed in–please plan to eat prior to the party. A cash bar will be available.
$60
GENERAL ADMISSION
(Book NOT Included)
This is a limited capacity event & requires a separate ticket from your CrimeCon 2022 badge.
No food will be provided and no outside food is allowed in–please plan to eat prior to the party. A cash bar will be available.
$35
Paul Holes specialized in cold case and serial predator crimes, developing and applying investigative, behavioral, and forensic expertise in notable cases such as The Golden State Killer, and Jaycee Dugard. Holes is frequently sought out by investigators to consult on the most complex and high profile cases and has played a part in putting several serial predators on Death Row such as Darryl Kemp, Joseph Naso, and Joseph Cordova Jr.
As an FBI Task Force Officer while employed with the DA’s Office, Holes teamed up with FBI and Sacramento DA personnel to apply innovative technology that identified Joseph DeAngelo as the Golden State Killer, the most prolific and cunning serial predator in U.S. history.
Since the arrest of DeAngelo, Holes has been very involved on the media side, continuing to assist law enforcement and victim’s families with their unsolved cases through the television shows The DNA of Murder with Paul Holes and America's Most Wanted, and with the podcast Jensen & Holes: The Murder Squad.
Your General Admission ticket includes a copy of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes ($29 value).
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 have 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.
