The Evil I Have Seen: Memoirs from the Case Files of Lt. Detectiv

2022 Gold Medal Winner Reader's Favorite Book Contest True Crime Non-Fiction
Retired DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Detective Lt. Robbo Davidson is awakened night after night by ghosts of his investigations past. "I ruminate on those old investigations, realizing some things seen stain the brain as surely as the iron-laden soil of western Louisiana forever changes the color of whatever it touches. You cannot wash red dirt out of clothing, and you cannot unsee what you have seen."  The retired detective resolves to give voice to his ghosts in The Evil I Have Seen, a collection of true crime stories straight from his case files.Six accounts are woven together with his memories, case files, witness statements, and trial transcripts.

Detective Lt. Robert Robbo Davidson retired in 2014 after working forty years in Louisiana law enforcement, beginning as an undercover narcotics agent during the 1970's. He joined the DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Department in 1980, where he worked drug and homicide investigations for thirty-three years. For more than a decade, Davidson assisted the Louisiana Sheriff's Association with the state legislature and served on the Joint Terrorism Task Force. He is still a member of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Department of Criminal Justice.