Every once in a while, I’ve been known to go off on a tangent. Something obscure will pique my interest, and, for whatever reason, I find that I’m not able to let it go. (Does anyone remember my interest in the large school bell that was rung by the 19 year old Orson Welles in […]
Tag Archives: murder mystery
Davontae Sanford, in prison for murders he almost certainly didn’t commit, finally gets national exposure in The New Yorker
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
U.S. census worker found murdered in Kentucky
I didn’t like it a week or so ago when the press insinuated that an anti-abortion activist’s murder in Michigan might have had something to do with his beliefs, so I’m hesitant to make too much of a reach here, but, when you find a dead census worker strung up in the forest with the […]