Bob O'Brien served in the South Australian Police Force for 33 years. He retired as a Detective Superintendent after serving as a police officer in patrols, on motor cycles and in the detective branch. As a detective, he worked in the Drug and Major Crime Squads and knows the many sides'good and bad'of the city of Adelaide and its people. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation about police serving as peacekeepers in Cyprus, and has written numerous articles about policing. Bob O'Brien is the detective who solved the most famous of all the Family murders.