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title: The Detective Who Kept the Files
description: "When he retired in 2009 he carried out twenty-eight banker's boxes of working notes — every interview, every tip sheet, every margin annotation from thirty-one years on the job. Two of those boxes broke a case in 2024."
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datePublished: 2026-03-29
dateModified: 2026-03-29
author:
  - name: Marcus Haley
    url: https://casualcriminalist.channel/author/marcus-haley
publisher: Casual Criminalist
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When he retired in 2009 he carried out twenty-eight banker's boxes of working notes — every interview, every tip sheet, every margin annotation from thirty-one years on the job. Two of those boxes broke a case in 2024.
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