IDYLLWILD, BY MICHAEL HEMMINGSON1.
Ex-cop Sean Talmadge—retired five years now—wouldn’t let it go, and continued to harass me over a missing persons case he was convinced I was guilty of, going back seventeen years. When he was a homicide detective with the Hermosa Beach Police Department (northwest of Los Angeles), he followed me in his off hours and kept me under surveillance, albeit any evidence pointing toward the disappearance of my ex-lover, a friend of Talmadge’s daughter. He retired three years ago but continued to haunt and harass me; he was no longer with the police department and claimed he was a licensed private detective and working for a client to find out what happened to Nicole Rense—that’s the name of my ex-girlfriend. Talmadge’s “client” was himself; the man was obsessed
