Crime: Reconstructed Podcast
by Morgan Wright
An intelligence-driven Substack examining unsolved crimes, investigative failure, and how truth emerges when cases are reconstructed from evidence and first principles. crimereconstructed.substack.com
Episodes
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Live with Morgan Wright
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Week 23 | Thursday Master Class | David Carter & Tamera Williams
🎙️ 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...
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Week 23 | Monday | David Carter & Tamera Williams: Fugitive from Justice
Thank you Michael Winstead, Brenda Jorgensen, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 🎙️ Episode Overview David Carter, 39, of Melvindale, Michigan, was last seen alive at his son’s football game on September 28, 2018, with his girlfriend of…
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Week 22 | Friday | The After Action: Jaycee Lee Dugard
🎙️ Episode Overview The week closes with the portable methodology finding — that contact is not the same as custody, and a supervision system without a mechanism requiring connection between what each contact reveals isn’t really supervision at all — followed by four live doors specific to this...
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Week 22 | Thursday Master Class | First Officer on Scene: Jaycee Lee Dugard
🎙️ Episode Overview The Master Class centers on a single home visit — June 17, 2008 — where a California parole agent encountered a 12-year-old girl on Phillip Garrido’s property and accepted, unverified, his explanation that she was his brother’s daughter. Because this case has no single...
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Week 22 | Thursday | The Four Category Map: Jaycee Lee Dugard
🎙️ Episode Overview Every fact assembled across the week is sorted into four confidence tiers rather than a chronology: Established (the record confirms it without serious dispute), Strongly Implied (the evidence points there but falls short of proof), Contested (the evidence honestly raises the...
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Week 22 | Wednesday | System Stress Test: Jaycee Lee Dugard
🎙️ Episode Overview Each of Tuesday’s six assumptions is pressed against the documented record, in order, and five collapse quickly against specific OIG-report evidence: the rebutted compliance claim, the untraced utility wiring, the unmade verification phone call, the ignored GPS alert volume,...
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Week 22 | Tuesday | The Assumption Stack: Jaycee Lee Dugard
🎙️ Episode Overview This episode names, without yet testing, the six premises California’s (and, briefly, the federal government’s) supervision of Phillip Garrido quietly ran on for nearly two decades. None of the six were ever stated aloud by any single actor — each represents a default the...
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Special | Day 2 | Tiffany Bradley
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Week 20 | Friday | The After Action: Mandi Alexander & Mary Drake
🎙️ Episode Overview The week closes with the methodology finding on Motive Anchoring, four live investigative doors across both the Great Bend and Florence cases, and the central question the reconstruction leaves standing: if robbery wasn’t the real motive, who had reason to want Mandi…
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Week 20 | Thursday Master Class | First Officer on Scene: Mandi Alexander & Mary Drake
🎙️ Episode Overview The Master Class centers on the first Great Bend officer to respond after the 7:55 p.m. discovery call — arriving roughly two hours after the last confirmed sighting of the suspect locking the bakery’s front door. Three passes examine the 2002 response, a same-era response…
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Week 20 | Thursday | The Four Category Map: Mandi Alexander & Mary Drake
🎙️ Episode Overview Every fact assembled across the week is sorted into four tiers by confidence, not chronology: Established (the record confirms it without serious dispute), Strongly Implied (the evidence points there but falls short of proof), Contested (the evidence raises the question...
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Week 20 | Wednesday | System Stress Test: Mandi Alexander & Mary Drake
🎙️ Episode Overview Each of Tuesday’s six assumptions is pressed against the evidence. The robbery motive (Wall 1) stays broken, as established Monday. The stranger theory (Wall 2), the kill-sequence theory (Wall 3), and the composite sketch’s reliability (Wall 5) hold up as reasonable but...
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Week 20 | Tuesday | The Assumption Stack: Mandi Alexander & Mary Drake
Thank you Michael Winstead, Brenda Jorgensen, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 🎙️ Episode Overview Every cold case is built on assumptions that harden into accepted “fact” simply because nobody goes back to test them. This episode names…
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Week 20 | Monday | The Inherited Case: Mandi Alexander & Mary Drake
🎙️ Episode Overview Mandi Kay Sunderland Alexander, 24, and Mary A. Campbell Drake, 79, were found stabbed to death — throats cut with a sharp instrument never recovered — inside the Dolly Madison Bakery outlet store at 1004 Harrison Street, Great Bend, Kansas, on the evening of September 4…
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Week 19 | Friday | The After Action: Deputy Jeffrey Vaughn Mitchell
🎙️ Episode Overview The week closes with the methodology finding, the case’s live investigative doors, and the central question the case forces. The finding: a coincidence, however compelling, is not a chain of custody — and this case’s twenty-year theory rests on a manner-of-death…
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Week 19 | Thursday | The Four Category Map: Deputy Jeffrey Vaughn Mitchell
🎙️ Episode Overview Today sorts every fact in the Mitchell case into four categories: Known, Don’t Know, Can’t Know Anymore, and Will Never Know. The exercise shows that the “Known” column is largely descriptive — what happened, where, and to whom — while the single fact that would resolve the...
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Week 19 | Wednesday | System Stress Test: Deputy Jeffrey Vaughn Mitchell
🎙️ Episode Overview Today’s episode presses each of Tuesday’s six assumptions against the available evidence, in order of structural importance. Assumptions one (same actor at both scenes) and five (single offender) largely hold as reasonable inference. Assumptions three (a composed, deliberate...
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Deputy Jeffrey Mitchell: Full Case Reconstruction With Claude and Grok
Join us at 5:30 p.m. Eastern today as I do a full reconstruction using our structured workflows for Claude and Grok. We're going to be building out the entire case to be entered later into HOLMES as an unsolved homicide. During this session, you'll see exactly how structured workflows can be used...
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Week 19 | Tuesday | The Assumption Stack: Deputy Jeffrey Vaughn Mitchell
Thank you Emily Dill, Brenda Jorgensen, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 🎙️ Episode Overview Today’s episode lays out the six load-bearing assumptions underneath the Mitchell case’s dominant theory — that Deputy Mitchell interrupted the...
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Week 19 | Monday | The Inherited Verdict: Deputy Jeffrey Vaughn Mitchell
Thank you Brenda Jorgensen, Tracy, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 🎙️ Episode Overview Deputy Jeffrey Vaughn Mitchell, 38, was shot and killed with his own service weapon during a traffic stop at approximately 3:30 a.m. on October 27…
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Week 18 | Friday | The After Action: Brittney Ann Beers
🎙️ Episode Overview The synthesis. The week’s methodology finding is delivered, and with it the case’s central, devastating mechanism: the thing that made Brittney vulnerable is the same thing that made her disappearance hard to solve. The episode names the three doors genuinely still open in…
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Week 18 | Thursday Master Class | First Officer on Scene: Brittney Ann Beers
🎙️ Episode Overview The deep dive. Victimology — the disciplined reconstruction of a victim’s normal — is the foundation of every child-abduction investigation, the concrete you pour before any wall goes up. This Master Class builds that foundation from zero in three passes: how the victim-side...
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Week 18 | Thursday | The Four Category Map: Brittney Ann Beers
🎙️ Episode Overview The sorting episode. Twenty-nine years of uncertainty is divided into four honest columns — because not all unknowns are the same, and confusing them is how a case spins its wheels for decades. The map shows the Lost Baseline becoming permanent: the heaviest entry in “Can’t...
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Week 18 | Wednesday | System Stress Test: Brittney Ann Beers
🎙️ Episode Overview The week’s testing episode. Two pieces of evidence are pushed hard: the bloodhound that, nine days after Brittney vanished, tracked her scent to the 3D/Marathon parking lot on U.S. 12; and the October 3, 1997 headline “Five abduction attempts made,” documenting a county-wide...
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Week 18 | Tuesday | The Assumption Stack: Brittney Ann Beers
🎙️ Episode Overview With no reliable victimology baseline, the Brittney Beers case has generated competing theories for nearly three decades. This episode lays out the four standing theories as premises to be tested, not sides to argue: (1) she wandered off, (2) a stranger took her, (3) the…
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Week 18 | Monday | The Inherited Verdict: Brittney Ann Beers
🎙️ Episode Overview Brittney Ann Beers was six years old — a first-grader at Fawn River School who loved art and the outdoors — when she vanished from the Village Manor Apartments in Sturgis, Michigan on the evening of September 16, 1997. She was last seen around 8:45 p.m. sitting on a bench in...
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Week 17 | Friday | The After Action: Heather Dawn Church
Thank you Emily Dill, Brenda Jorgensen, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 🎙️ Episode Overview The after-action on Heather Dawn Church. Robert Browne is in prison for her murder — a real win — but the print that named him in 1995 was lifted...
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Week 17 | Thursday Master Class | First Officer on Scene: Heather Dawn Church
🎙️ Episode Overview You’re the first officer up the driveway of the Church home the morning of September 18, 1991. The scene is one thing: a window with the screen pulled loose, and the latent prints lifted from it. The episode’s core move: the first officer did the hard part right — collected…
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Week 17 | Thursday | The Four Category Map: Heather Dawn Church
Thank you Emily Dill, Brenda Jorgensen, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 🎙️ Episode Overview Thursday sorts the Heather Dawn Church case into four columns — Known, Don’t Know, Can’t Know Anymore, Will Never Know — with a deliberate twist:...
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Week 17 | Wednesday | System Stress Test: Heather Dawn Church
🎙️ Episode Overview Wednesday leans full weight on the assumptions named Tuesday, in order of structural importance. The foundation — that the window-screen evidence had already been worked — breaks on the record: in 1995 the same 1991 latent print, resubmitted to fingerprint databases the...
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Week 17 | Tuesday | The Assumption Stack: Heather Dawn Church
🎙️ Episode Overview Tuesday names the assumptions that kept the Heather Dawn Church case frozen for nearly four years — the reasonable premises that hardened, over time, into things everyone treated as facts. The episode does not test them yet (that’s Wednesday); it lays them out, labeled, so…
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Week 17 | Monday | The Inherited Verdict: Heather Dawn Church
🎙️ Episode Overview Heather Dawn Church was 13 years old, living in Black Forest, north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado. On the night of September 17, 1991, she vanished from her family home while babysitting her younger brother. The apparent point of entry was a window with the...
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Week 16 | Friday | The After Action: Kyron Harmon
🎙️ Episode Overview The after-action on Kyron Horman: one methodology finding, an honest accounting of the live doors, a personal note, and the question to carry out of the week. The structural condition all week was the Floating Timeline — an investigation that never fixed the moment of...
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Week 16 | Thursday Master Class | First Officer on Scene: Kyron Horman
🎙️ Episode Overview The standard Master Class puts you on the floor of a crime scene as the first officer through the door. This case has no body and, at first glance, no scene — only a “missing child” call the late afternoon of June 4, 2010, and a school that’s already emptying. The episode’s...
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Week 16 | Thursday | Four-Category Map: Kyron Harmon
🎙️ Episode Overview The four-category map sorts everything in the case into Known, Don’t Know, Can’t Know Anymore, and Will Never Know. In most cases the last two columns are small. In Kyron Horman’s case they are the largest on the board — the signature of a sixteen-year-old disappearance with…
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Week 16 | Wednesday | Systems Stress Test: Kyron Harmon
🎙️ Episode Overview The stress-test rule: don’t ask whether an assumption is comfortable, ask what happens to the case if it’s wrong. If the case survives, the assumption was decorative; if it collapses, the assumption was load-bearing. This episode tests the Assumption Stack in order of weight...
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Week 16 | Tuesday | The Assumption Stack: Kyron Harmon
🎙️ Episode Overview The phrase everyone repeats — Kyron vanished from his school in broad daylight — contains three unexamined assumptions in seven words: that he disappeared in a single moment (vanished), that the school is where it happened (from his school), and that it happened in the…
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Week 16 | Monday | The Inherited Verdict: Kyron Horman
🎙️ Episode Overview Kyron Horman was 7 years old, a first-grader at Skyline Elementary School in the rural hills northwest of Portland, Oregon. On the morning of June 4, 2010 — science fair day — his stepmother, Terri Horman, brought him to school early to set up his project on red-eyed tree…
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Week 15 | Friday | The After Action: Brittany Phillips
🎙️ Episode Overview The after-action converts the week into a portable methodology finding, gives an honest accounting of what is still alive in the Brittany Phillips case, and closes on the question the case forces. The core lesson: the strength of a piece of evidence and the safety of the...
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Week 15 | Thursday | Four Category Map: Brittany Phillips
🎙️ Episode Overview Thursday sorts the Brittany Phillips case into four columns — Known, Don’t Know, Can’t Know Anymore, Will Never Know — and confronts the question the week has been building toward: after the 2019 exclusion, do investigators actually possess any DNA attributable to the killer?...
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Week 15 | Wednesday | System Stress Test: Brittany Phillips
Thank you Brenda Jorgensen, Michael Winstead, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 🎙️ Episode Overview Wednesday leans full weight on the six assumptions named Tuesday, in order of structural importance. The foundation — that the recovered DNA...
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Week 15 | Tuesday | The Assumption Stack: Brittany Phillips
🎙️ Episode Overview Tuesday names the assumptions that have governed the Brittany Phillips case — the reasonable inferences that hardened, over time, into things everyone treated as facts. The episode does not test them yet (that’s Wednesday); it lays them out, labeled, so they can be tested.…
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Week 15 | Monday | The Inherited Case: Brittany Phillips
🎙️ Episode Overview Brittany Phillips was 18 years old, a chemistry student at Tulsa Community College who had recently moved back home to Tulsa. On September 30, 2004, at 2159 hours, officers entered her apartment at 9407 E. 65th Street, unit 3216, on a welfare check and found her deceased. She...
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Saturdy Rant | June | CrimeCon 2026: The Spectacle
A room full of good people cheered a slideshow of convicted killers like a game-winning goal. Then CrimeCon put two jurors onstage to walk a paying crowd through the deliberation room. Forty years a cop — here’s what crossed the line. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — CrimeCon 2026 came…
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Week 14 | Friday | The After Action: Jodi Huisentruit
🎙️ Episode Overview The week closes with an after-action: what happened, why it happened, and what to carry forward. No resolution is offered — none exists — but the episode delivers a portable methodology finding and an honest accounting of what remains alive in the case. The central reframe…
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Week 14 | Thursday Master Class | First Officer On Scene: Jodi Huisentruit
Thank you Brenda Jorgensen, Michael Winstead, Katrina Lantz, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 🎙️ Episode Overview The Master Class leaves the analytical altitude of the week and stands on the pavement. It reconstructs the morning of June…
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Week 14 | Thursday | Four Category Map: Jodi Huisentruit
🎙️ Episode Overview The hardest discipline in investigation is saying, out loud and without flinching, what you don’t know. The brain hates an open question and reaches for the nearest plausible answer to close it — and in a thirty-year case, those plastered-over gaps become the theories…
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Week 14 | Wednesday | Systems Stress Test: Jodi Huisentruit
🎙️ Episode Overview A wall looks solid until you lean on it. This episode takes the six assumptions named on Tuesday and tests each against the evidence — not to produce a clean scoreboard, but to find which beliefs are load-bearing and which are paint over a hole. The result reframes the case:...
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Week 14 | Tuesday | The Assumption Stack: Jodi Huisentruit
Thank you Emily Dill, Mimi, Katrina Lantz, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 🎙️ Episode Overview Every long-cold case eventually stops running on evidence and starts running on belief. A theory gets formed, repeated, and after enough years…
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