Detective Fales is a detective within the Denver Police Department and an antagonist of the Longmire television series.
Biography[]
Fales grew up in a small town where he noted the corruption of the local sheriffs, disliking how they had operated with impunity for their actions and vigilanteism, while also influencing their deputies and successors. Hoping to make genuine change, Fales chose to become a police officer and eventually became part of the narcotics division in the Denver PD. However, Fales was ambitious, and eventually rose to become a homicide detective to seize greater opportunities, where he proved to be far more interested in closing cases than actually solving them correctly.
During the investigation into Miller Beck's murder, Fales had missed key pieces of evidence within the murder as a result of a rushed (fourteen minute) autopsy he condoned, and had even managed to have another detective involved in the case, Vogel, demoted in the process for contradicting him. Fales would later personally confront Walt Longmire, as Miller Beck had murdered his wife Martha, years prior.