Kris Barbrich of the San Francisco Police Department’s Medical Examiner’s office was nice enough to meet with me on a half rainy day back early in May 5, 2017. I had some questions for him about Patricia Vance, but he was unable to tell me much. What he did say that was helpful was that if I don’t get help from the detective in the cold case department I’d been in touch with, then I should go to his superiors. “Don’t quit,” he said. So, I just wanted to pass on that scrap of wisdom to anyone who is out there working with law enforcement to advocate for a friend or relative who’s a cold case.
