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Remembering Balsey DeWitt

I got the news today that my friend Balsey DeWitt has passed away. For those who don’t know who Balsey is, he was the captain of ALM Flight 980, which was the subject of my first book 35 Miles From Shore. I got to know Balsey and his wife Edith

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When one door closes

The Kentucky Supreme Court issued its decision today on Kit’s appeal and upheld the original conviction. While this is terrible news for everyone supporting Kit, I want to offer a glimmer of hope. I’ll start with a quote from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle: You can read

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All About Wrongful Convictions

This post is to announce that the manuscript for I Will Ruin You is now in the hands of the publisher. I thought about publishing the book myself. I know how to do it. I know how to market it. And I have the connections to get it out into

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A pattern of lies

Before Kit married Joan, there was a brief period where he helped Joan move into a rental property he had shared ownership of with his ex-wife Stacey. By this time, Kit and Joan had dated a few times, but Kit wasn’t ready to start a relationship with her. He had

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The Ruse

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 least two people are

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