The Riddle of Emmon Bodfish

By: Paul Holes, Peter McDonnell, Josh Sanburn

Narrated by: Paul Holes, Jim Clemente

In 1999, Emmon Bodfish was murdered in his home in the wealthy enclave of Orinda, California, just east of San Francisco. For the young crime-scene analyst Paul Holes, it quickly became the most bizarre and surprising case of his storied career.

It was immediately clear how Emmon had died: by being hit over the head with a heavy object. What wasn’t clear was who did it and why. Each clue was like a doorway to an expanding labyrinth of leads—leads involving pagan ceremonies, stolen artwork, a mysterious disease, an elusive shoe pattern, entomology, a blue demon, a family inheritance, an enigmatic child, a struggle for identity, and passages written in a secret language throughout two decades of Emmon’s diaries.

No matter how deep Paul went into the tunnels of the mystery, the shape-shifting shadow of Emmon’s antagonist stayed just out of reach. Paul had never faced anything like it. He became obsessed with solving it. For himself and for Emmon.

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The listener becomes an eyewitness.

An extraordinary non-fiction account of a murder that includes fascinating threads involving Druids, messages coded using symbols associated with runes, the FBI and other law enforcement entities, and a brilliant victim who also happens to be a transgendered mother. The author weaves this account in a manner that quickly transforms the listener into a role as an eyewitness to the events. Highly recommended.

Masterful reenactment of a mystery

The telling of the story by those evolved help bring home the reality of this tragic event.
thank you for putting this together. Not only does it bring into core the troubled life of a transgender female and the life long abuse but why the diagnosed of people on the spectrum is so important, This might have helped a troubled child not feel the only way out was alone in an hotel room.

Riveting; Truth is Stranger Than Fiction