By Mark | September 10, 2015
This evening, after getting home from work, I took my dog for a walk. We were making pretty good time along the route we usually take, until we reached the intersection of Michigan Avenue and South Washington Street, when we were approached by a local business owner who wanted to talk about the upcoming vote […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged brushes with death, car accidents, car crushing, crash, death by cop, fear of death, Michigan Avenue, mortality, South Washington Street, speeding, Tap Room, Ypsilanti police department |
By Mark | August 26, 2012
Remember how, a few months ago, I jokingly told you that I was worried that I might have contracted tuberculosis? Well, I’m still coughing. And I’m coughing harder than ever. By my count, I’ve been coughing consistently for ten weeks straight, trying desperately to get something out of my lungs that apparently just won’t budge. […]
By Mark | January 16, 2011
We haven’t seen her here on the site for the better part of a year, but, for a quite a while, we were getting regular updates from a woman by the name of Taminko Sanford on the fate of her son, Davontae, a prisoner in the Michigan correctional system. Davontae, who was found guilty of […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2007, Cheryl Sanford, coerced confessions, crime, David Cobb, Davontae Sanford, Detroit corruption, Detroit Police, Detroit police crime lab, Diane Bukowski, drug gangs, Ernest Davis, false imprisonment, Gerald Williams, hit men, homicide, Ira Todd, James Davis, Kwame Kilpatrick, Kym Worthy, LaTonya Brooks, Michael Stefani, Mitchell Foster, murder, murder for hire, murder mystery, organized crime, police investigations, Rose Cobb, Runyon Street, Russell Marcilis Sr., Taminko Sanford, Vincent Smothers, Violent Crimes Task Force, Voice of Detroit, William Rice, wrongly accused |
I can’t remember if we’ve discussed it here before, but, for the past several years, German authorities have been hot on the trail of a mysterious serial killer. Called “the woman without a face,” the killer was thought to have murdered dozens of people over a span of 15 years. Here, by way of background, […]