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Harvest of Madness: The Police Chief Who Vanished Into His Own Novel

In the summer of 1984, Hinckley's police chief left his locked car, his badge, and a neatly folded life at the edge of Lake Erie — then vanished. The only confession he left behind was typed into a typewriter ribbon. Forty years later, the reporter who grew up next door is still chasing the cop who wrote his own disappearance.