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- I Wrote About His Wrongful Conviction. He Got Only 13 Years of Freedom Before Cancer Took His Life.
by Megan Rose, ProPublica on September 23, 2026 at 4:00 PMFor years, I followed the case of Fred Steese, who spent 21 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. When he died in August, it felt like the universe had dealt him yet another injustice. by Megan Rose, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. I’d like to tell you about Fred Steese, who died in August of cancer at 62. When I first
- The Camcorderby Steve Morrow on September 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Sometimes the piece of evidence that changes the game for your client is something that should be there, but isn’t. The phone call came from defense counsel. A man named Ethan Cole had been arrested, following a police stop that escalated into a physical struggle with officers in the city of Riverton. Mr. Cole’s version of the events was that he was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over, and the police immediately focused their attention on him.
- Review: “The Museum of Unusual Occurrence,” by Erica Wrightby Chapter16.org on September 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Erica Wright’s latest mystery sets a murder in a special kind of tourist town. by Bradley Sides & Chapter16.org The Museum of Unusual Occurrence By Erica Wright. Severn House. 240 pages. $29.99. Erica Wright, Knoxville resident and author of eight books, including 2024’s Hollow Bones, takes readers to Wyndale, Florida, in her latest whodunit, The Museum of Unusual Occurrence. As novel opens, we meet Alcyone “Aly� Orlean, a 20-something skeptic who runs the oddities museum of the title. Aly has a