the interest and the dogged determination to solve the east area rapist. the sheriff that i took over with that is here today told me about the importance of it. i don't know that i fully appreciated it at that time, but i can tell you without exception, weekly, sometimes more, i get telephone calls or e-mails to this day from former employees, former detectives, community members from all over this country, that believe that they know or at least have some information on who the east area rapist was. committed then to do everything that i could to solve it. had a lot of conversations early on with district attorney shubert about how we could do it. those discussions really touched the passion of both of us to solve this case. both of us committed the best and the brightest are hand picked folks to oversee the