Delayed Justice

All the working day yesterday was spent at the Grand Rapids Police Department scanning away on the file that encompasses the murder of Shelley Speet Mills.  Using an out-of-date MacBook I kept the scanner humming along, page after page.  No, I’m not done by any means and will return next week for another couple of sessions, but the pages and pages of interviews, photographs and reports chronicle a terrible crime.

Is this what we come down to in a murder case?  …Words, images, measurements?  Yes.

But police know there is more, much more.  Sergeant Terry McGee is the latest in a line of investigators who have pledged to do their best to bring justice for Shelley.  This almost-39-year-old case bothers him as it has those investigators before him.  A lot.  But for the case to go forward there needs to be something new…new evidence, new cooperation from a source.

And so, in an effort at trying something new, we have been allowed to help in telling the story of this crime.  And because this is a new thing, something as yet untried, we’re making it up as we go along.  So, stick around and take a new look.