Posted in Cold Cases

DNA Doe Project identifies pregnant Jane Doe murdered in 1975

Body found in Iowa river identified as missing 15-year-old girl Clinton County, IA – More than fifty years after she was murdered and her body…

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Posted in Unidentified Persons

DNA Doe Project identifies woman murdered in Minnesota in 1993 

Remains found in separate lakes belonged to missing St. Paul woman For more than three decades, investigators have searched for the identity of a woman…

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Posted in Collateral Damage: Human Trafficking

The Thomas Hildebrand Case: Before It Was Called Trafficking

The Thomas Hildebrand Case, the Coalition That Changed American Law, and the Questions Nobody Went Back to Answer In the summer of 1993, a 59-year-old…

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The Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case and What Happens When the Government Cannot Admit a Mistake

What Happens When Prosecution Becomes Damage Control? It Invents a Crime The most dangerous abuses of power rarely arrive wearing jackboots. They arrive wrapped in…

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Mark Fuhrman Is Dead. The Reckoning He Avoided Is Not.

How a racist detective, a perjury conviction, and a culture of impunity became part of America’s most infamous murder trial There is a version of…

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The Truth Shouldn’t Be Called Biased

Why Factually Challenging Republican Narratives Is Not Partisanship. It Is Journalism. Something deeply corrosive has happened to American journalism, and it did not happen by…

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The Blue State Crime Myth

How Republicans Weaponized America’s Fear of Crime For years, Americans have been fed a political narrative so simple it barely qualifies as an argument. Crime…

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Posted in Crime & Justice News

A South Carolina Court Has Overturned Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Convictions

The System That Produced This Outcome Deserves at Least as Much Scrutiny as the Man A South Carolina court has overturned the 2023 murder convictions…

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Posted in Cold Cases Murder

What Was Done in Ina: The Dardeen Family Murders

The Dardeen Family Murders, the Long Search for Answers, and the Confession That Changed Nothing On the night of November 17, 1987, in the small…

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Timeline of Events: The Dardeen Family Murders

Timeline of the Dardeen Family Murders Main Article: What Was Done in Ina: The Dardeen Family Murders – American Crime Journal | 1985 – 1987:…

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