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The Joey Nagle Reading List
Primary case file documents, MiCOURT and public records, and Clutch Justice’s reporting on the death of Joseph “Joey” Nagle and the detective who led the investigation into it. Organized in recommended reading order.
How to use this list: Start with the primary case file documents in Section 01 so you can check the reporting’s claims against the record directly. Then read the four Clutch Justice pieces in publication order: they build on each other, moving from the initial forensic review to the disclosure failure to the full report audit and the raw dispatch recording.
01
Primary Case File Documents
The actual MSP and Allegan County records, not summaries. Photographs and scanned reports referenced throughout the reporting.
1
MSP Investigative Report 50-260-22R
Primary Document
51-page original and supplemental MSP report. Contains the deputy’s evidence and search records, the hood/shirt/Taser findings, autopsy evidence, responder accounts, the radio and LEIN summaries, and the clarification and property records.
Read especially
Pages 37 to 38 for the radio and LEIN timeline; pages 44 to 49 for the phone extraction, property, and prosecutor submission.
2
Nagle Reports 595002828 and MSP Nagle Report 595002830
Primary Document
The 93-page scanned supporting packet: scene log, reconstruction, medical, lab, Taser, and evidence-sync pages, plus the searchable 51-page MSP export.
3
Joey’s Autopsy and Toxicology Reports
Primary Document
The postmortem report and the NMS toxicology workorder. Read the specimen type, method, and reporting limits alongside any secondary account of what the toxicology “shows.”
4
Scene Photographs: the Knife, the Lights, the License and Glasses in the Roadway
Primary Document
The photo evidence behind the knife-placement and license-handling questions: embedded EXIF capture times establish when each item was documented relative to the crime-lab van’s arrival.
02
Clutch Justice Reporting, in Order
Read these four pieces in publication order. Each builds on the documents and findings of the one before it.
5
The first full review of the MSP file: the wrong plate, the missing body camera, the unused Taser, the scene-measurement plot, and the asymmetry between the scrutiny applied to Joey and to the deputy. Added to Clutch Justice’s BGS (Brady-Giglio-Santobello) List.
6
Clutch Justice
Establishes that Detective Shane Criger led Joey’s investigation while an active named defendant in the McCann federal civil-rights case, and that neither MSP nor the Allegan County Prosecutor nor the Michigan Attorney General’s Office ever disclosed that conflict, including when the AG’s Office declined the family’s request for review.
Read especially
The interactive network map connecting MSP, the Attorney General’s Office, Fuller, Criger, the McCann case, and the Nagle case, and the institutional scorecard grading each institution’s disclosure conduct.
7
Clutch Justice
The full document audit: the knife’s undocumented chain of custody, the forensic comparison the hand and head injuries deserve, the license and scene-access questions, the interactive deputy report card grading the stop an overall F, the complete exclusion list of everyone the record rules out as the shooter, and the officer-history table covering everyone named in the file.
8
A full minute-by-minute transcript of the dispatch radio traffic, published the day after the “Four Years Later” report audit so readers can check its timeline claims against the primary audio record directly.
03
Related Clutch Justice Reporting
Additional Clutch Justice pieces referenced in the main reporting but not required to understand the core file.
9
The Detective Who Was Found Guilty of Violating Someone’s Constitutional Rights. He Was Still Working Cases.
Clutch Justice
Background reporting on Sgt. Bryan Fuller’s continued MSP employment, referenced in “Same Detective, Same Lawyer, Different County” as prior Clutch Justice coverage of the MSP accountability pattern.
10
The Pattern Around Tom Siver: A Family He Controlled, a Client He Abandoned, and a Campaign That Won’t Disclose Until It’s Too Late
Clutch Justice
Referenced alongside the “Four Years Later” report as related coverage of attorney Thomas Siver, who represented the Nagle family and submitted the witness recording described in this library’s timeline. Read this alongside the Who’s Who entry on Siver for fuller context on his broader conduct.
04
The McCann Case: Background on the Pattern
The wrongful-conviction case that establishes Fuller and Criger’s documented investigative pattern.
11
McCann v. Fuller et al., No. 1:19-cv-01032 (W.D. Mich.)
Court Record
The federal docket naming Shane Criger among the defendants in Ray McCann’s wrongful-conviction civil rights suit against Bryan Fuller and other MSP investigators.
12
$11 Million Settlement for Exonerated Michigan Prisoner
Press
Documents the September 2023 jury verdict, the 2024 MSP settlement, and Fuller and Criger’s joint role in the McCann interrogations and continued employment.
13
Everyone in town believed he was a murderer. Once a suspect in girl’s 2007 killing, man puts investigator on trial
Press
Contemporaneous trial coverage of the McCann case, the Jodi Parrack investigation, and the fabricated-evidence findings against Fuller.
14
“I just kept letting him hit me”: MSP release report on shooting death of Joseph Nagle
Press
The original press coverage of the MSP report’s release and Koch’s no-charge decision. Read this alongside Clutch Justice’s reporting, which documents that the story’s subheadline overstated the toxicology finding by not distinguishing the confirmed blood result from the unconfirmed presumptive urine screen.
A Note on Sourcing
Every claim in this reading list and in the accompanying timeline and Who’s Who reference is sourced to a named document, report, or outlet cited in Clutch Justice’s reporting. The involved deputy remains unnamed in every publicly released record reviewed. No named individual has been convicted of a crime in connection with Joey’s death.
Compiled by Rita Williams for Clutch Justice, clutchjustice.com. This reading list accompanies the Joey Nagle research library and is provided free, with no signup required, for research use. Verify all claims against the primary documents before relying on them.