Paul Holes retired as a cold-case investigator after spending over twenty-seven years working for the sheriff and district attorney’s offices during his tenure in Contra Costa County located in the Bay Area, California. Having experience in both forensic and investigative assignments throughout his career, he specialized in cold case and serial predator crimes, developing and applying investigative, behavioral, and forensic expertise in notable cases such as Zodiac, Golden State Killer, and Jaycee Dugard. He 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, he teamed 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 US history. Since the arrest of DeAngelo, he has been very involved on the media side, continuing to assist law enforcement and victim’s families with their unsolved cases, through the television show The DNA of Murder with Paul Holes and with the podcast Jensen & Holes: The Murder Squad. |
