No, but he had a connection to Cole Brennan. And Brennan had 200,000 reasons to want Marcus dead. What if Brennan didn’t just mention his…
People moved toward their cars, white passengers to the front, enslaved passengers and workers to the rear. Williams slipped into the negro car, taking a…

In 1998, newlyweds Olivia and Marcus Trent kissed their families goodbye and drove away from their Phoenix wedding reception, headed for the airport and a…
The boarding house was modest, tucked on a quiet street away from the main thoroughares. Mrs. Patterson answered the door, a small woman with graying…

In 1997, a father and his 12-year-old son left their Phoenix home for the airport, beginning what should have been a simple 40-minute drive to…
“Everyone who worked the case, everyone who had access to the investigation,” Garrett nodded slowly. “I can try to remember, but some of those people…
Webb finished. They had an address from DMV records. Mitchell Caldwell lived in a modest house in Glendale, not far from where Frank Morrison had…
The woman seemed to sense that further conversation was unwelcome and turned away. Above deck, the steamboat’s whistle blew, a long, mournful sound that echoed…
Her eyes moved systematically across the platform, examining faces, searching for something or someone. When her gaze landed on William, she went completely still. Then…
British audiences already sympathetic to abolitionism but often removed from its immediate realities heard firstirhand testimony that made slavery impossible to dismiss as an abstract…


