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Synopsis
Bodies Were Found, the Case Went Cold, Then the Commish Took Over
For more than a decade, the Gilgo Beach serial killer eluded capture—dumping bodies on the beach, taunting victims’ families, baffling investigators, and dominating headlines in a frightened community with a police department riddled with corruption.
When Rodney K. Harrison became Police Commissioner of Long Island’s Suffolk County PD, he didn’t just inherit the cold case—he brought the killer to justice.
The Commissioner is the inside story of how one veteran cop reopened a stalled investigation, assembled a select task force, and hunted a killer hiding in plain sight. Drawing on his three decades of law enforcement experience as the highest ranking officer in the NYPD—including undercover drug buys, homicide scenes, and high-stakes leadership—Harrison reveals what it really took to lock up “the devil that walks among us.”
Harrison’s street smarts growing up in South Jamaica, Queens, rising through the ranks of the NYPD and commanding precincts in all five boroughs including Harlem, quelling violence on Staten Island after the Eric Garner incident, surviving a shooting during a drug buy gone bad where his partner was shot—all led to his final act in law enforcement, the one that made history.
This book pulls back the curtain on the Gilgo Beach serial killer case and the top cop who wouldn’t let it go cold again.
Author Bio
Rodney K. Harrison is a nationally respected law enforcement leader whose storied thirty-two-year career in policing spans the toughest streets of every borough in New York City to the top ranks of the New York Police Department, the nation’s largest police force—and beyond. From undercover narcotics work to commanding entire boroughs, Harrison has worked every angle of modern policing, culminating in his role as Police Commissioner of Suffolk County, where his leadership revived the cold-case investigation of the Gilgo Beach serial murders and led to the arrest of the confessed killer in one of the most high-profile breakthroughs in recent true crime annals.
