The cases that changed the law
Cases whose aftermath rewrote a statute, a police procedure, or a citizen's rights.
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Tours through the record.
Guided paths through the archive, each built around one question and introduced by hand. Walk the route stop by stop, open it as a map tour, or press play and listen from the first file to the last.
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Teresa de SimoneHampshire Police handout · editorial use Cleared by DNA
Convictions that DNA evidence later undid, and the years each person lost before the science caught up.
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Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin and Xana KernodleFamily photo · editorial use The family-tree cases
Investigations reopened when crime-scene DNA was matched, through distant relatives, to a name.
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Brenda PageFamily / police handout · editorial use Answered decades later
Killings that stayed open for a generation before a new test, a new witness, or a fresh pair of eyes closed them.
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Lacey FletcherEditorial use When the ruling changed
Deaths first recorded as accidents or suicides, and the reviews that later called them something else.
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The digital trail
Trials that turned on phone masts, CCTV, and search histories — the electronic traces almost everyone now leaves.
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Elizabeth ShortLAPD bulletin · public domain What the record actually shows
Cases the public thinks it knows, set against what investigators and courts actually found.
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The Dallas motorcade, 22 November 1963Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News · public domain The assassinations that redirected history
The killings of presidents, prime ministers, dissidents, and reformers — each one a hinge a nation's history turned on.
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Rescue workers inside the Murrah Federal Building, 1995SSgt Mark A. More, US DoD · public domain Bombings and their aftermath
Bombings across public places, transit systems, campaigns, and conflicts — recorded through the people they were aimed at and the aftermath that followed.
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Mass shootings: the places we remember
Public attacks remembered by place — and the lives, movements, safety changes, and public arguments that followed.
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Gabby PetitoFamily photo · editorial use The disappearances that gripped the world
People who vanished without explanation — and the searches, theories, and vigils a global audience followed for years.
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