Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!
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Poynter has a link to a investigative reporter's work on bringing down a cold-case killer who's alleged to have been committing murders since the Kennedy administration.
How a Mississippi investigative reporter helped find a suspected serial killer
Link to "Gone"
Gone
I'm going to dig into this tonight.
Mary Rose found the reporter who'd help her track down a suspected serial killer while she was listening to the radio.
Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter for The (Jackson, Mississippi) Clarion-Ledger, appeared on "Democracy Now" to talk about a series of cold cases from the Civil Rights era.
That's Neshoba County, Rose told herself. It's near where the man she suspects killed her daughter lived. Mitchell, the reporter, lived in Mississippi, too.
"A light went off," she said, "and I said, Mary, you need to get in touch with this man. He is not afraid of cold cases."
Six years and thousands of words later, that case is no longer cold.
It took Mitchell more than a year (and a lot of calls from Rose) to start reporting. But they both stuck with it.
On Friday, Mitchell's series, "Gone," was published online. It has nine chapters, more than 25,000 words, a five-episode web series and a newsletter. And so far, analytics show readers are coming, staying and coming back for more.
How a Mississippi investigative reporter helped find a suspected serial killer
Link to "Gone"
Gone
I'm going to dig into this tonight.
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