Crime: Reconstructed
An intelligence-driven Substack examining unsolved crimes, investigative failure, and how truth emerges when cases are reconstructed from evidence and first principles.
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Week 24 | Thursday Master Class | Logan Warrior-Goings (opens the original)
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Monday, I told you about Logan Warrior-Goings — six years old, shot in his own living room on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 2022 — and about five hundred guns that sat in a tribal evidence locker for years because nobody had the equipment to test them. In 2026, somebody finally did. It produced a match: a weapon, not yet a name.If you missed Monday, read that one first. This isn’t a retelling. Thursdays, we stop narrating and start taking the case apart.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-im
Live with Morgan Wright (opens the original)
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Week 24 | Monday | Logan Warrior-Goings (opens the original)
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It’s a Thursday evening, May 5th, 2022, at a house eight miles north of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Holly Wilson has just cooked steak for dinner. Her grandchildren are piled onto the living room couch, the way kids stack themselves in a house that’s always full. One of them is six years old. His name is Logan.The dogs don’t bark. Nobody hears a car. What the family hears next, they first think is fireworks.It isn’t fireworks. Someone has fired approximately fourteen rounds into the side of an occ
Week 23 | Thursday Master Class | David Carter & Tamera Williams (opens the original)
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🎙️ Episode Overview No re-narration of Monday’s case. This episode sorts the David Carter / Tamera Williams case through the Four-Category Map (Established / Strongly Implied / Contested / Permanently Unknowable), then names and analyzes the structural condition: the Hold-and-Release Gap between the evidentiary threshold to detain a suspect (72 hours, Michigan law) and the higher threshold to formally charge one. Williams was arrested October 5, 2018, released October 8 for lack of sufficient ev
Week 23 | Thursday Master Class | David Carter & Tamera Williams (opens the original)
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Monday, I told you about David Carter, and about Tamera Williams — the girlfriend investigators say killed him, dismembered him, and put the pieces on the shoulder of a highway in Ohio. Arrested. Released three days later. Gone nine days after that. Eight years, no confirmed sighting.If you missed Monday, read that one first. This isn’t a retelling. Thursdays, we stop narrating and start taking the case apart.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/
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