Over the past three years, we’ve discussed the troubling case of Davontae Sanford several times. As you may recall, Davontae was taken into police custody in Detroit at the age of 14 for the murder of four people. We’re told that Davontae, who is developmentally disabled, and blind in one eye, confessed to the murders. […]
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Davontae Sanford, in prison for murders he almost certainly didn’t commit, finally gets national exposure in The New Yorker
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit Also tagged Christine Moellering, coerced confessions, confessions, Dateline NBC, Davontae Sanford, getting away with murder, Kim McGinnis, Michael Russell, Michigan Court of Appeals, murder, murder mystery, prison, prison industrial complex, Runyon Street, Taminko Sanford, The Innocence Project, Vincent Smothers 30 Comments
The unsolved mystery of Jack Brown’s 1984 murder in Ypsilanti
Every once in a while, my OCD gets the best of me, and I find myself going off on a tangent, obsessed by some little thing that, if I were anyone else, I’d probably just disregard. Recently, as you might recall, I got a little fixated, for whatever reason, by a large bell that figured […]
Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 1984, Brenda Stumbo, conspiracy theories, contract killing, Cynthia Wilbanks, Eagle Brief, Ed Hall, Ehman and Greenstreet Real Estate, Gary Hawks, getting away with murder, historic reenactment, hit man, In Search Of, Jack Brown, Kirk Profit, Mike Hawks, murder, murder mystery, Orson Welles, real estate, Roy Wilbanks, scandals, sitcom ideas, The Hearts of Age, Unsolved Mysteries, Ypsilanti police department 35 Comments
The strange case of Davontae Sanford
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, bad police work, 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 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 136 Comments