The 2026 Clutch Blanket Mystery, Week 13: The Striped Notebook Square
Walt Brey, 81, kept every bench notebook he ever filled. His entry for the consolidation weekend runs four lines, and…
Judge Kathleen Galen Viewed a Defendant’s Facebook Stories Twice. The Defendant Wants Her Off the Case.
Investigation She survived being shot eight times. She told the court she has a brain injury. Now she says her…
Trial by Mechanism, Part VIII: What Would Have to Change
Trial by Mechanism · Part VIII of VIII What Would Have to Change Seven installments produced one finding, and it…
Kent ISD Promised “Indefinitely.” The Deed Says 10 Years. The Buyer’s Board Has Meijer’s Old Development Lawyer.
Update · Howard Christensen Nature Center The board approved demolition October 19. The next day it told the public the…
The Trustee and the Pen Name: Edward Brongersma, “Frank Torey,” and Francis Shelden in Amsterdam
Fled, Not Gone · Francis Shelden After North Fox Island Part I: The Paper Trail Part II: The Trustee and…
Not at the Keys: Why the Murder Weapon Story in Sigrid Stevenson’s Case Doesn’t Fit the Scene
For nearly fifty years, the story has been that Sigrid Stevenson was struck down at the piano with a board,…
Charged, Not Convicted, Still Practicing: The Grand Rapids Attorney Case and Michigan’s Discipline Gap
A Grand Rapids defense attorney who takes publicly funded appointed cases is charged with secretly recording a minor in a…
Scotland Yard Washed Away the Ripper Case’s Best Clue Before Sunrise. The Killer’s Famous Name May Have Come From a Journalist, Not Him.
The Ripper case is usually told as an unsolvable puzzle: too little forensic science, too much fog, too many suspects….
The Unpaid Workforce: How America’s Justice System Exploits the People It Fails
Investigative Analysis Courts and legislatures built a system most people cannot navigate alone, then left the explaining to whoever survived…
Which Theories Got Investigated? Fifty Years of Leads in the Oakland County Child Killer Case.
The Machinery · The Oakland County Child Killer Investigation After 1977 Part I: Who Controlled the Information Part II: Who…
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