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The first nail in the coffin
There are a lot of ways wrongful convictions happen: faulty expert testimony, false confessions, bad police work, prosecutorial misconduct, etc. In the case of Christian “Kit” Martin, the most damaging testimony at trial, and the testimony most likely to have led to a guilty verdict, involved hearsay evidence. In a
The Picture
For the past few months, I’ve been working on my next book project. Up until now, I have kept the project under wraps. I didn’t want to get out ahead of things and find out halfway through that this story wasn’t what I thought it was. I’ve worked on this
Review of Air Crash Investigations Terror Over Michigan
I’ve been a fan of the National Geographic series Air Crash Investigations for a while. The series is shown worldwide with titles such as Mayday and Air Disasters. They usually do a great job recreating air disasters and following along as crash investigators try to piece together the events leading
My Next Project
It’s official. I’ve started work on my third book project. For a number of reasons, I can’t go into a lot of detail about it right now. The video below, however, contains some hints about the story I’m working on. Here are a few more hints: a pilot, a triple
The Maligning of a Flight Crew Continues
Last summer I made a few references about a possible documentary about TWA 841. I had been contacted by an associate producer for a well-known National Geographic television series. I did a brief Skype interview. I forwarded a copy of Scapegoat to the producer. He told me to not announce
What would the TWA 841 story look like today?
There was no internet back in 1979. No Facebook. No Twitter. There was Boeing, the NTSB, and journalists both in print and TV. Still, the rumors about the TWA 841 crew managed to spread in aviation circles. It started with articles that included quotes from lead NTSB investigator Leslie Dean