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How Can I Make A Difference In Our Broken Justice System? What Can I Do To Help Those That Are Marginalized In Our Society?

 These are complicated yet crucial questions to ask of oneself isn't it?   For anyone who has watched a compelling documentary or caught a horrific news story or come upon an online article detailing the suffering and pain endured by someone and after reading has thought what could have prevented this.  What would have saved this person from experiencing this pain?  How do we stop the preventable suffering of others? How can we free someone who has gotten tangled up in the criminal justice system and found themselves in prison for a crime they did not commit.  Or how can I help with the many social injustice issues like the thousands of missing children or the victims of human trafficking. How can I help reduce the growing number of the homeless population?  I am beginning to think that all of these issues are because of a broken system.  A system of government that has put profit over people for entirely to long and as a result the marginalized o...

On November 3rd, 2005 Karen Halbach called Calumet County Sheriffs Department and reported her daughter Teresa Halbach Missing and Then.....

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 At the start of the year 2022 I thought I would take a long and in depth look at the investigation into the disappearance of Teresa Halbach from the vantage point of all the evidence instead of using only the evidence that was presented to the media and jury.  For those unfamiliar with criminal investigations and the evidence collection process-officers will "collect" lots of items, statements and perform many tests to solve a crime not all of this is presented to the jury-prosecutors pick and choose what to show and if the defense doesn't recognize the significance of other evidence items the jury will never know about their existence. This will not be a short article as this case alone spans almost seventeen years and that is without bringing up any of the issues regarding Steven Avery and the State of Wisconsin that stem from his 1985 wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration in 2003 and the fact that Steven Avery was in the midst of a civil suit against not only M...