Delayed Justice

“The truth never has many friends, and unpleasant truths are especially friendless.”  YAFFA ELIACH

Thank you to all of you who have supported our effort through your thoughts, prayers and comments.  Believe me, I know that at times we deal with unpleasant truths…or, at least that is our intention.  How very unpleasant that people are murdered with such impunity.  How very unpleasant that it’s possible that more than half the men who raped and helped to murder Janet Chandler walk free.  How very unpleasant that our state’s Supreme Court has been a haven for incivility and divisiveness. How very unpleasant that the Klan is alive and well and resurgent.

As unpleasant as we hold those truths to be, how much worse it could be if we didn’t face those unpleasant truths.  Together we can face any truth.  I think in particular of someone who corresponded with me as I was editing the trial footage and compiling the names of The Others.  This person was a Godsend, providing strength in the midst of what was an entirely draining and consuming task.  My thanks again.

And to the rest of you, drop a line.  It would be good to hear from you.

Sometimes it takes time.  At last we have some pictures for two WEst Michigan women who were victims of murder, Deborah Lynn Polinsky and Debra Lynn Wilson.

Here they are:

 Deb Polinsky

Deb Wilson

You can find the details and contacts relating to their cases at our We Remember.  

Too many there. And that’s not an exhaustive list for our state; we’re just the tip of this cold-as-ice berg.

Almost two years after we sat down for our first interview we gathered again with Adrian Dekker, Mina Dekker’s younger brother.  By the time of this conversation I knew a lot more about the case; I’d been through the entire case file and had scanned it all, down to the very small scraps of paper.  The called it matchbook reporting and it was pretty close to that, legal sheets torn in half and then folded in half.  Like this:

At any rate, you can see and hear the second interview here.