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Grandfather’s Ghost Story Leads To Mysterious Mass Grave

2 brothers first heard about “Duffy’s Cut” from their grandfather, a railroad worker, who told the ghost story to his family every Thanksgiving.

…”A teeny weenie little fragment like that is so chock full of information,” said Janet Monge, holding up a jawbone and teeth found at the Duffy’s Cut site. She believes the teeth, because of their irregularities, could someday be linked through DNA to living descendents of the men unearthed at the dig site. Monge, an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania, joined the forensics team when Bechtel looked her up in the campus directory and asked for help separating the human bones from any animal bones. Since then, Monge has collected bones from seven skeletons unearthed at Duffy’s Cut, including four skulls. The trays and containers of bones occupy a long, wide table in the back of a lecture room at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia. Poring over the bones with her green spectacles sitting low on her nose, Monge said she has focused her attention on the skulls, adding that they have provided crucial clues to what might have killed the Irishmen at Duffy’s Cut. “This skull has a…

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Flawed North Carolina cases found, including executions

Analysts at North Carolina’s crime lab omitted, overstated or falsely reported blood evidence in dozens of cases, including three that ended in executions and another where two men were convicted of killing Michael Jordan’s father, according to a scathing independent review released Wednesday.

…View Comments to Review finds flawed North Carolina cases, including executions 1AnonymousAny lab personnel who knowingly withheld data to aid the prosecution of anyone convicted of a crime should be sentenced to prison for the same length of time that the person was falsely convicted of.If an innocent person was falsely executed because of this, then the malicious lab personnel should likewise be executed. 2AnonymousThis is rampant in our JUST US system. Those who work with the police want to stay on their good side, so they fudge things, make up shit, and file false reports to do so. It doesn’t matter to them that they are screwing potentially innocent people, possibly getting them a death sentence with their lying. This Deaver jerk off needs to have some serious charges filed against him, but I doubt seriously it will ever happen. He was the cop’s buddy, and gave them what they wanted, which was evidence , true or not, they didn’t care.Some justice system. Those in power use that power to gain…

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