This book doesn't actually have numbered chapters. I went through and gave sections numbers cuase I like numbers.
Ch 14 Sacramento 2012
This chapter is all about the internet message boards where people try to figure out who the EAR/GSK/ONS is. TONS of super smart people have compiled TONS of evidence and suspect profiles and what not. They're kind of wasting their lives and they know it. But the more involved they get the more it motivates them to keep digging. There's a fun chat board guy everyone calls the kid who's probably got the most expansive data set. Michelle comes to him with a suspect and he's all, oh, that guy, we figured out it couldn't be him a while ago.
ch 15 East Sacramento 2012
Michelle talks a bit with Richard Shelby. They're like "why aren't there more people reporting suspcious activities from the EAR era?" and they're thinking maybe people just don't trust the cops back in the late seventies and Shelby says it's more like people just aren't that detail oriented. Like one time he got a call saying someone found a backpack with a mask and other suspcious stuff in it and he was like "throw it away" and that was that. EAR just did a really meticulous job of picking out the neighborhoods and eventual victims to make sure that it was the easiest target and he did a pretty good job of avoiding suspicioun during the mean time. Michelle is going through a GIANT file of police reports in her Sacramento hotel. It's ultimately just a really frustrating experience. She doesn't really learn anything she didn't already know.
Ch 16 The Cuff Links coda
Michelle gets the cufflinks overnighted to her house. The kid thinks this is not wise. Maybe to EAR-ONS sold those cuff links to find someone to be his next victim. Michelle gets the honor of interviewing Larry Poole. He's a very reserved kinda guy. She gives him the cufflinks and he's like "I think I might love you." Turns out they're not THE cufflinks. You win some, you lose some. Well, thus far, they lose all of them.
ch 17 Los Angeles 2012
This chapter is an illustration of how otherwise good people don't go the extra mile you might think they would to prevent crime that allows people like the EAR-ONS to get away with it for so long. It's Thanksgiving and Michelle has a deadline to meet. She's getting a few too many dorbell rings, but she's busy so she ignores them. She notices a young african american man sort of wandering the neighborhood, ringing doorbells. She's going out to dinner with some friends. She bumps into her neighbor and she tells her they got robbed. Michelle's thinking it must have been the wanderer. If she had called the cops or told other people in the neighborhood of her suspicious maybe this would have been avoided. She says she's gonna try to be a better neighbor. But probably not. tht's the whole point. We all have our own busy lives, we do't have time to play amature cops.
ch 18 contra costa 2013 concord
She's meeting with Paul holes to go around to the east bay area where he was active in 1978. All single story houses near construction sites. Same MO as Sacramento. He tells the lady to tie up the man. Then ties up the lady and rapes her. Then he burglarizes the house for a bit. Never leaves any evidence near the house.
Holes thinks he commute a on the 680 highway because all the victims live right off the highway.
CH 19 Sam ramon
It bothers Michelle that nobody ever calls the police around on of these EAR crimes to report prowlers or suspicious people. Holes says its not that surprising. People temd to keep to themselves, especially at dark when the EAR would do his prowelling. A couple detectives in yje area. Tried an experiment. They prowled around at night a few times to see what they could see. You can find oua lot t about people watching them through small crack a in the curtains. Also, nobody noticed them and called the cops. Michelle also thinks maybe he was some sort of uniformed worker. The type everyone ignores cause they're just doing their job. Nothing to see here. Also, Holes doesn't think he always knew much about his victims. Sometimes he knew tons and told his victim a what he knew as a power play. Sometimes it was like he just stumbled upon the house for the first time.e and dexidwd to do a crime.
CH 20 danville
The most important thing in this chapter is the realization that Paul Holes is a good hang. If I ever get the chance, I'm gonna hang out with Paul Holes. Danville was largely built where it was because the railroad went through there and it expanded around said railroad. But that railroad shutdown in 1978 and the EAR used it as an excape route from his crimes a couple times. Bloodhouds tracked him to certain spots and then lost the trail. The theory is that's where his car was. You can't track a moving car by scent. The EAR was active here and then also had a couple crimes down south at the same time. Paul Holes has a theory. The EAR had a plane.
ch 21 Walnut creek
There are three crimes discussed in this chapter. It's even smaller than Walnut creek, it's in the Rancho San Miguel neighborhood of Walnut Creek developed by Joseph Eichler. His houses are very glassy, which makes them good for the EAR to prowl on people. This chapter makes me hate the EAR even more cause all three are minors and the last one he not only did the R word but also abducted and murdered her and dumped her in a river. What makes it worse is that they misidentified the body as a much older Jane Doe. Much later, after her father has alsready passed away and her mom was very old they exhumed the body and were able to properly identify it. Here mom got closure and died a year later.
ch 22 Davis
This chapter is cool cause it's transcribed from a recorded conversation that Michelle and Paul Holes had while in Davis. More specifically off campus housing for UC Davis. They talk about Paul's plane theory. He thinks the EAR works for a residentail development company. There always seems to be construction aorund the crimes. Because the crimes are near new constructionoften times the neighborhoods are very different now. Two of the victims were in a carpool together. The EAR often struck victims very close to each other.
ch 23 fred Rey
Fred Rey is a detective. His part in this is at one point he had a case where a bunch of local teens took up being agressive peeping toms by breaking into houses late at night. Just like the GSK does. They talk about what a disaster it was that they didn't catch the GSK on that first night when he was set to kill for the first time on October 1 1979 on Queen ann Lane. An FBI agent was after him and deputies were on their way and the GSK slipped away.
ch 24 The one
This chapter details a few situations where they found a suspect they thought must be "The One" None of them were. They were all eliminated as suspects due to alibis or DNA or both.
ch 25 Los Angeles 2014
If you're like me, this chapter is super fun cause it's spelled out to you that Michelle's husband is Patton Oswald. If one is inclined to inquisit one should have come to that realization long ago. Like when you saw on the front cover that the afterward was written by Patton Oswald.
ch 26 Sacramento 2014
This chapter is all about suspect Jim Walther. He worked for the railroad and worked in cities where the GSK was active at the time when crimes were committed. They talk to his daughter who says she hasn't talked to him since 2007. Someone claiming to be his brother was living out of his car. Turns out it was Jim Walther. They did a DNA test. He's not the GSK.
Ch 27 Sacramento 1978
They're talking more about other viable suspects that were let go and haveven't been revisited since because of kind of minor and relatively unimportant differences between them and the descriptions of the GSK. There's a note here that Michelle passed away in 2016. We already knew this. This was a known fact. Even so, I got a little emtional when I read it.
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