Next Wednesday March 24 at 7 pm in Browne Auditorium (Parkinson Bldg), there will be a speaker talking about a double - almost triple - murder case. Lt. Michale Callahan was a State Police Investigator who was assigned to confirm that the prosecutors had done a good job. Unfortunately, that's not what he found out. The local authorities were corrupt as well as incompetent. But what really surprised him was that he was told by his superiors to stop investigating because it was "too politically sensitive" - which turned into the title of the book he wrote about it. His presentation is fascinating.
Plus, the man whose life was saved by his intervention will also be here. Randy Steidl spent 17 years in prison, 12 of them on death row. He'll talk about his experience. All this happened in Paris, Illinois, a small town near the Indiana state line, just north of I-70. The murders remain unsolved, although Callahan's evidence points to several suspects (none of them Steidl). I say 'almost triple' because it seems that they were trying to get rid of him, too. He had written a letter complaining about corruption. But he did not realize how far that corruption extended into higher levels of Illinois government. Those aspects of this case are revealed by Michale Callahan.(that's how he spells it)
I hope you can let your friends and colleagues know about this.more info at toopolitcallysensitive.com
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