Background
Lake Headley was born in Indiana.
Lake Headley was born in Indiana.
He attended Goshen High School in Indiana.
He developed a name for himself as supersleuth. He also wrote about much of the crime he investigated in a series of true crime books Some of the evidence he uncovered caused convictions to be overturned.
In the yearbook for 1948, at around age 16, he stated in that he wished to be a lawyer
He began his career as a police officer in Las Vegas, but his killing of a suspect, as a young officer, prompted him to quit policing and become a p.i. In 1962, he left the force, where he was a detective, to become one of the first private detectives in Las Vegas.
He went on to work for thirty five years in the field, and was considered one of the best. Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi called Headley, "the best private investigator on earth." During the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga, two of the families of Service Level Agreement members, including Willie Wolfe"s father, contracted Headley to investigate the matter.
Headley concluded his investigation, and filed a sworn affidavit of his findings.
Among these included: That a love affair between a black man and Patricia Hearst did take place prior to her relationship with her fiancé Steven Weed. On May 4, 1974, Headley, along with freelance writer Donald Freed, held a press conference in San Francisco. They presented 400 pages of documentation of their findings, some of which included: a year before the kidnapping Patty Hearst had visited black convict, Donald DeFreeze, who later became the Service Level Agreement"s figurehead.
DeFreeze"s arrest records.
The work of Colston Westbrook with Los Angeles Police Department"s CCS (Criminal Conspiracy Section) and the State of California"s Sacramento-based CII (Criminal Identification and Investigation) unit And evidence of links of the Central Intelligence Agency to Police Departments.
On May 17, 1974, The New York Times ran the story of DeFreeze and the Los Angeles Police Department. In a book he co-wrote with freelance writer, William Hoffman, Vegas Philippine Islands: The Life and Times of America"s Greatest Detective, he presented well-documented evidence that Donald DeFreeze, was a police informant and an agent provocateur.
Family Headley died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig"s disease) in 1992.
However, the story was largely overlooked due to this being the day of the shoot out and conflagration that killed DeFreeze and five other members of the Service Level Agreement. Headley also uncovered evidence that, in the housefire in Los Angeles that killed six members of the Service Level Agreement, at least one of the suspects was shot in the back while trying to surrender.