In the book Breaking Blue and the movie The Prestige both, curiosity motivates the Tony Bamonte and Robert Angiers, but then obsession takes over and destroys the lives of Bamonte and Angiers.
Anthony Bamonte, 47, is sheriff of Pend Oreille County in the late 1980s. Working on a master's degree, he decides to write a history of the sheriffs that preceded him. The project leads him to an unsolved murder case that's 54 years old: the fatal shooting of a marshal in the tiny border town of Metaline falls in 1935. The victim, a former policeman doing security work for a creamery just weeks short of his retirement, was killed during an armed robbery for butter.
As Bamonte explores the case, he discovers an immense cover-up involving the Spokane Police department, centered on detective Clyde Ralstin who apparently took bribes, was involved in a theft ring, and may have shot more than one suspect with exemption. The flustered sheriff presses forward with the case that almost no one wants him to solve, trying to break through the “internal police officer code" that protects law enforcement officers from colleagues who don't want to "snitch" on one another. This is a sobering but thrilling true story of the breaking of the nation's oldest continuing murder investigation. But his obsession to solve this case maybe the demise marriage and career. …show more content…
He was devastated by the news that the case would not be reopened in Fell to his death in 1955 after he tried to reopen the case and the death was ruled accidental but it is very
Anthony Bamonte, 47, is sheriff of Pend Oreille County in the late 1980s. Working on a master's degree, he decides to write a history of the sheriffs that preceded him. The project leads him to an unsolved murder case that's 54 years old: the fatal shooting of a marshal in the tiny border town of Metaline falls in 1935. The victim, a former policeman doing security work for a creamery just weeks short of his retirement, was killed during an armed robbery for butter.
As Bamonte explores the case, he discovers an immense cover-up involving the Spokane Police department, centered on detective Clyde Ralstin who apparently took bribes, was involved in a theft ring, and may have shot more than one suspect with exemption. The flustered sheriff presses forward with the case that almost no one wants him to solve, trying to break through the “internal police officer code" that protects law enforcement officers from colleagues who don't want to "snitch" on one another. This is a sobering but thrilling true story of the breaking of the nation's oldest continuing murder investigation. But his obsession to solve this case maybe the demise marriage and career. …show more content…
He was devastated by the news that the case would not be reopened in Fell to his death in 1955 after he tried to reopen the case and the death was ruled accidental but it is very