The Archivist: A True Crime Podcast

Alfred Dreyfus. In this true crime world we hear terms like “Miranda rights” or “Amber Alert” or a “Dreyfus case”. These names come from true life situations and as we invoke their names, we should hear their stories. Here is the story of Alfred Dreyfus, who endured anti-Semitism and a wrongful conviction. He was later exonerated, but not before his whole life was destroyed.

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American Bar Association “How Courts Work” November 28, 2021. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resources/law_related_education_network/how_courts_work/appeals/#:~:text=Appeals%20in%20either%20civil%20or,judge's%20interpretation%20of%20the%20law.&text=The%20party%20appealing%20is%20called%20the%20appellant%2C%20or%20sometimes%20the%20petitioner.
The National Registry of Exonerations. Michigan State University College of Law. https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Exonerations-in-the-United-States-Map.aspx
The High Court. 33 Startling Wrongful Conviction Statistics (2021 Update). By Andriana Moskovska. 10/21/2021. https://thehighcourt.co/wrongful-convictions-statistics/
CNN. After 25 years of wrongful imprisonment, 2 Georgia men set free after newly uncovered evidence exonerates them of murder charges. By Emma Tucker, 12/11/2022 https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/10/us/georgia-men-exonerated-wrongful-imprisonment/index.html
Wikipedia. Alfred Dreyfus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Dreyfus
The New Yorker. Trial of the Century: Revisiting the Dreyfus Affair. By Adam Gopnik. 9/21/2009. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/28/trial-of-the-century
Holocaust Encyclopedia. Alfred Dreyfus and the “Dreyfus Affair”. March 31, 2017. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/alfred-dreyfus-and-the-dreyfus-affair

The Irish Vanishing Triangle. 6 more victims and the Gardi still haven't made a connection that the disappearances of up to 12 women are possibly connected. By the time the task force is created it is much too late.
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The Irish Vanishing Triangle. In the 1990's women in the eastern corner of Ireland started vanishing without a trace. What was happening? Is this just a bunch of women taken from their family and friends by random happenstance, or was there a serial killer operated. The Garda made many mistakes, and only very late in the cycle created a task force, but it was too little too late for 12 women.
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Timeline: https://www.irelandsvanishingtriangle.com/annie-mccarrick
Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%27s_Vanishing_Triangle
Ireland’s missing persons in the “Vanishing Triangle”. By Kathleen Donohoe September 10, 2018. https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/irelands-vanishing-triangle-missing
Mystery of Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle women: Author reveals how culture of secrecy, victim blaming and shame around sex means no justice for Eight women murdered in the 90s whose bodies were never found. By Monica Greep. May 17, 2021. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9488823/The-Vanishing-Triangle-author-disappearance-eight-missing-women-90s-Ireland.html
Imelda Plea “Continues to fall on deaf ears” by Darren Skelton. January 3, 2022. https://waterford-news.ie/2022/01/03/imelda-plea-continues-to-fall-on-deaf-ears/#:~:text=ON%20January%203%2C%201994%2C%20Imelda,years%20old%20at%20the%20time.

America’s coldest case. Seven men were brutally gunned down in a garage near the north side of Chicago. The murders resulted from the gangland wars during prohibition. The Irish North Side gang run by Bugs Moran versus the Italian South Side gang lead by America’s most notorious gangster Al Capone. The murderers have never been caught, but there are plenty of theories as to who may have committed this horrible crime.
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https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition#:~:text=The%20Prohibition%20Era%20began%20in,Prohibition%20was%20difficult%20to%20enforce.

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and Al Capone (Excerpt from Get Capone) By Jonathan Eig. April 30, 2010. https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/may-2010/get-capone-st-valentines-day-massacre-jonathan-eig/

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. History.com February 4, 2021 https://www.history.com/topics/crime/saint-valentines-day-massacre

Inside the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, History’s Bloodiest Mob Hit. By Katie Serena. February 2, 2022. https://allthatsinteresting.com/st-valentines-day-massacre

Prohibition. History.com https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition#:~:text=The%20Prohibition%20Era%20began%20in,Prohibition%20was%20difficult%20to%20enforce.

Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States

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Oliver Haugh. It's normal to wonder "what if" because we are never sure which chance encounter will have the most affect on our lives. How does an injury received while playing hockey lead to one of the greatest achievements of man in the 20th century? A man who became one of the most notorious murderers in the early 1900's had a profoundly terrible affect on Wilbur Wright and most of the people he came in contact with.
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