Paul Holes is a photogenic subject who helped to raise the profile of the case - particularly with female audiences. His is undoubtedly happy to conduct television interviews and is now probably set up nicely to host a true crime TV show like America's Most Wanted for the next 10 - 15 years.
However, let's not overstate his importance to this case. He came along and repeatedly made public pronouncements that not only didn't help the case, but potentially hindered it a great deal.
He was convinced the EAR was not the VR - but actually he was.
He was convinced the EAR had a pilot's license an owned his own plane - but actually he didn't.
He was convinced the EAR worked in construction and that was how he selected victims - but actually it wasn't
Investigators like Ken Clark and Larry Poole did far, far more over the past decade for this case than Paul Holes.
Carol Daly, Larry Crompton, Detective William McGowen, Richard Shelby, Mary Hong, Sgt John Vaughn...
The list of people who did far more to solve this case than Paul Holes is quite extensive. The list of people in California involved in LE who look better in front of a camera conducting a television interview is quite short.
My own opinion.
