On November 2, 2015, a little more than two weeks before the murders, private investigators Michael Conzachi and Mary Martins secretly recorded Calvin Phillips and Joan Martin. The recordings were legal under Kentucky's one-party notification law, which allows the recording of a third party if at …
Tieing up loose ends
While the book has been undergoing several rounds of early readers, I've been busy tieing up loose ends. One loose end that I've been working on involves the robbery of the Mennonite couple that occurred just five months prior to the Pembroke murders. Amis Yoder and his wife were brutally attacked …
How it all started
Before there was a murder trial; before there was a court-martial trial; there was a court hearing that set in motion all that was to follow. The argument that led to Kit asking for a divorce occurred on September 5, 2012. Joan was granted an emergency protective (EPO) order against Kit the next …
Juror #5
I had an opportunity to interview one of the jurors in the Kit Martin case. In this post, I will share some of the revelations from that interview. Juror #5 is an army veteran who flew the Cobra combat helicopter in Vietnam. He was 74 years old at the time of the trial. He had moved to …
Kit Martin Podcast
Freeing someone who has been wrongfully convicted is no easy task. One proven method has been to draw attention to the case. I'm doing that with the book I'm working on. Podcasts are another way to bring attention to a case. Below you will find a long list of podcasts from the Ofender True Crime …
Subtitle Poll
The Kit Martin book project is coming along on schedule. I'll be sending out an early draft to a few readers soon. Right now I'm kicking around a few title/subtitle ideas and thought I'd do a poll. For the title, I'm fairly set on the title I Will Ruin You. Everything that has happened to Kit began …
