For a decade, Forrest Fenn had lived as creator, promoter, steward, and defender of perhaps the most extraordinary treasure hunt America had ever known. He lived to see its conclusion. And then, barely three months after the hunt he had brought into the world had ended, Fenn was gone.
On the morning of September 7, 2020, Fenn was found unconscious in his study, having fallen, according to the police report. He was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, then released to the care of his family, who returned him to his home. There he died later that same day, never having regained consciousness. The first responders who arrived on the scene that morning were initially responding to a cardiac-arrest call, indicating Fenn may have had a heart attack that precipitated his fall.
Robert Rotenberg on King Street East, near his office in downtown Toronto, January 2021. (Robert Sarner)
The George Street Diner in downtown Toronto where a scene takes place in Robert Rotenberg s book, January 2021. (Photo by Robert Rotenberg)
Robert Rotenberg in downtown Toronto near his office, January 2021. (Robert Sarner)
Robert Rotenberg at the launch of his first book, Old City Hall, in Toronto, March 2009. (Photo by Ted Feld)
TORONTO For the past 22 years, Canadian criminal defense lawyer and bestselling author Robert Rotenberg has wrestled with homicide detective Ari Greene’s tribulations. As the main protagonist in each of Rotenberg’s six murder mysteries, Greene has loomed large in his creator’s life since he conceived of the master sleuth in 1999 while writing his first crime thriller.
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you feel absolutely helpless. and the chief interrogator was and is? giuliano mignini, this prosecutor who let me tell you something, he knows exactly what he s doing. mignini was the prosecutor for both the monster and the amanda knox cases. just like during amanda s interrogation, preston also says he was asked to imagine scenarios of how the crime could have occurred. i was terrified. i thought, these people have the power to put me in jail for the rest of my life. preston says he was questioned for two hours. he left the meeting and wrote everything down, including the time he went in and the time he left. which is why giuliano mignini s recollection of that meeting with preston is so puzzling. translator: it lasted about 20 minutes. no more than that.
thought he would spend a few minutes answering just a few questions. i had never understood how brutal, psychologically brutal an interrogation is. you feel absolutely helpless. and the chief interrogator was and is? giuliano mignini, this prosecutor who let me tell you something, he knows exactly what he s doing. mignini was the prosecutor for both the monster and the amanda knox cases. just like during amanda s interrogation, preston also says he was asked to imagine scenarios of how the crime could have occurred. i was terrified. i thought, these people have the power to put me in jail for the rest of my life. preston says he was questioned for two hours. he left the meeting and wrote