Gordon R Hackel D H LThis author is blood-related to both Captain John Kemper and General George Washington. Gordon Hackel was born in 1949 in Hudson, New York, and was raised in Selkirk, and attended Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School (RCS). He started working in invesigations in Long Beach, California, from June 1966 to July 1976, and off and on from 1979-1995. He also worked for their branch office, Pacific International New Service, ot of Las Vegas, Nevada, and continued in this capacity as a major investigator until 1995. Although there were hundreds of cases, a couple of the most memorable were the following: (1) The murder and body dumped on President Richard Nixon's Western White House lawn in Oceanside, California, and (2) the death of Charles Manson Jr., A.K.A. Jay White, while driving in his car on June 29, 1993, at the age of thirty-seven, which took place 151 miles east of Denver, Colorado. Read More Read Less