In real life, Brendan Dassey is a 32-year-old convicted felon serving a life sentence at the Oshkosh Correctional Facility on charges of mutilation of a corpse, second-degree sexual assault, and being a party to first-degree murder. His lawyers have argued that Dassey, who has a borderline deficient IQ, was steamrolled …
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The last time David Kushner saw his older brother, it was 1973. He was only four years old, and he’d been hassling 11-year-old Jon to bring him back candy from the 7-Eleven near their Florida home — alligator candy, to be specific, gumballs packaged inside a plastic alligator head. Jon …
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This is an adapted chapter from Caleb Hannan’s new Kindle Single The Accidents; read the full story here. When Dave Weaver first sat down with the file he wasn’t impressed. His bosses told him to work the case the same way he worked every other case, which meant to go …
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