The Orange County Register recently had a story about Department Investigators Joe Gaul and Joe Hoskins working to solve a 43-year old homicide.
By KIMBERLY EDDS
The Orange County Register
The dusty orange grove where the body of Jesse Martinez Jr. was discovered is long gone, paved over by progress. An out-of-business car dealership now sits there – at a dead end.
Forty-three years later, Jesse's killers think they got away with murder.
Joe Gaul showed up at the Orange County Sheriff's Department homicide unit in 2005, the newest transfer and the odd man out. Without a partner and with little experience in homicide, he was handed the department's oldest unsolved slaying. See what you can do with this one.
A lot happens in 43 years. People get married, and divorced, and die. They tell lies, hoping to hide from reality. And they numb the pain any way they can.
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