Danno Hanks

Dan "Danno" Hanks, has a seven-page rap sheet showing more than fifty arrests and four terms in state and federal prisons. The youngest of ten children, he was born to Cheerful Louise Kappes & Daniel Joseph Portley III on July 13th, 1946. His birth father committed suicide when Dan was less then a year old. He had suffered injuries while in a lifeboat for 18 days. The story was chronicled in a news story and turned into the Alfred Hitchcock film "Lifeboat".( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037017/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0) He took to the night streets as a teenager, to avoid the advances of a sexually abusive stepfather, Charles Hanks. In 1976, while imprisoned at San Quentin, he witnessed a fatal stabbing in the chow line. Two inmates were arguing whether or not one character was sleeping with another on an afternoon soap. Upon his release, he discovered he could make more money and stay out of jail by working the other side of the law - as a private investigator and a Confidential Informant f