Near the banks of McDaniel Lake, the gates at Rolland Comstock’s old home are still standing. But almost two decades ago, this driveway was flooded with activity. A homicide investigation of an area lawyer and world-renowned book collector. “So I actually started working for him about 20 years ago this week,” James Owen said.
James still remembers the call he received in July of 2007. “It just seemed very otherworldly at the time that someone who was that old and feeble would face an end like that,” James remembers. At one time, the Washington Post called Rolland Comstock’s book collection the largest collection of contemporary fiction in the Midwest. Seven years, almost to the day after Lisa Rose visited Rolland and showed us his library, he was dead. Shot multiple times at close range inside his home.