Links to worthwhile information about various aspects of the case #

Annelise Hyang Suk Lee / Ronald Lee Moore #

In Baltimore city, teachers union OKs two-year contract, Staff Reports, Baltimore Sun, 12/15/99
Cases of 2 Md. women killed in 1990’s solved by DNA, Katie Lange, WBALTV.com, 7/18/14
Annelise Hyang Suk Lee Homicide Victim, Baltimore County Government, 7/23/14
Ronald Lee Moore: 5 fast facts you need to know, Sam Prince, Heavy, 12/18/14
Ronald Lee Moore’s criminal record makes his ‘Serial’ finale appearance very interesting, Allison Piwowarski, Bustle, 12/18/14

Baltimore Background #

Baltimore neighborhoods map
Detective’s Notebook with Moe Greenberg
Friends of Gwynn Falls Leakin Park Trail Map

Baltimore Crime and Police #

The Bodies of Leakin Park Blog Cham Green
New evidence preempts officer’s trial, Marcia Myers and Kate Shatzkin, Baltimore Sun, 2/13/99
Cooper v. State, Court of Special Appeals, 7/6/05
Readjusting to freedom, Sunmathi Reddy, Baltimore Sun, 12/24/05
Review urged on city casesMelissa Harris, 8/14/2008
Criminals’ DNA ignored, Justin Fenton, Baltimore Sun, 9/27/08
Ezra Mable v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, et. al (Complaint), Case No. 1:13-cv-00650-JKB, 3/1/13
Freed after 10 years, man sues Baltimore cops, Rebekah Kearn, Courthouse News Service 3/5/13
After murder exoneration, freed man wonders how case went wrong, Ian Duncan, Baltimore Sun, undated, 2013 or later
Wandering eye: ‘Homicide’ wrongful-conviction case revived, Home Depot breach, City Paper, 9/25/14
Police plant drugs, kill couple’s dog, and nothing happens, a lawsuit alleges, Edward Ericson Jr, City Paper, 07/07/15
Baltimore man exonerated after 17 years in prison for murder he did not commit, Baynard Woods, The Guardian, 5/11/16
Debacle in Baltimore: Prosecutors, part of the problem, struggle with solutions, Daniel Denvir, Salon, 7/24/16
City to settle lawsuit claiming cop framed an innocent man, Edward Ericson Jr, City Paper, 11/11/16
UB Clinics teach skills, fight for Justice (on the long fight for Malcolm Bryant’s exoneration), Hope Keller, Baltimore Law 09/27/16

Cell Phone Technology #

Hello? Ringing Charges? CBS News Staff, CBSNews.com, 7/7/99
Cell tower junk science, Michael Cherry et. al, Judicature, Jan/Feb 2012
Prosecutor’s use of mobile phone tracking is ‘junk science,’ critics say, Mark Hansen, ABA Journal, 6/1/13
What your cell phone can’t tell the police, Douglas Starr, The New Yorker, 6/26/14
Experts say law enforcement’s use of cellphone records can be inaccurate, Tom Jackman, The Washington Post, 6/27/14
What is a cell tower’s range? The Washington Post, 6/27/14
Cell phone evidence and the Serial podcast, Ben Levitan, Ben Levitan’s Cellphone Blog, 12/1/2014
What would a ‘Serial’-like murder investigation look like today? Motherboard Staff, Motherboard, 12/24/14
The tiny detail that is still bothering us about ‘Serial,’ Erick Franco, Motherboard, 12/25/14
From ‘Serial’ to Tsarnaev: Can You Trace Locations From a Phone Call? Ellen O’Leary Boston.com 3/13/2015
Witness 35: FBI Agent Chad Fitzgerald and junk science WO thebostonmarathonbombings.com 3/17/2015
Another alleged criminal pocket dials 911, Huffpost Weird News, 3/22/15
The cell phone evidence in Adnan Syed’s case illustrates a depressingly common problem, Kevin Sali, The Huffington Post, 2/12/16

Cristina Gutierrez #

In re Application of Maria C., 294 Md. 538 (1982)
A bulldog tenacity in the courtroom, Michael Ollove, Baltimore Sun, 5/15/94
Merzbacher v. State, 346 Md. 391 (Md. 1997)
Ex parte Levi Pace, Ct. Crim. App. Ala., 2/10/00
U.S. v. Bernacett Cosme, 127 F. Supp. 2d 271 (D.P.R. 2001)
Lawyer Gutierrez agrees to disbarment, Sarah Koenig, Baltimore Sun 6/2/01
Attorney is drawing numerous complaints, Sarah Koenig, Baltimore Sun, 7/19/01
Maria C. Gutierrez, 52, criminal defense lawyer, Gus G. Sentementes, Baltimore Sun 1/31/04
Judicial independence and accountability, Page Croyder, Baltimore Criminal Justice Blogger Paige Croyder, 2/22/10
Merzbacher v. Shearin, 732 F. Supp. 2d 527 (D.Md. 2010)
Merzbacher v. Shearin, 706 F.3d 356 (4th Cir. 2013)
Serial: Reflections on the case and Cristina Gutierrez from her old professor, Byron Warnken, WarnkenLaw.com, 12/17/14
Son of ‘Serial’ subject’s lawyer defends mother, Justin George, Baltimore Sun, 4/9/15
Lawyer’s son speaks on “Serial” podcast, Angel McCurdy cru.org, 5/11/15
Freddie Gray family attorney Billy Murphy used to be Cristina Gutierrez’s boss – Adnan Syed case, Seema Iyer, 2/5/16

False Confessions #

Detective Jim Trainum on the simplicity of obtaining false confessions and why videotaping interrogations is imperative, Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, undated
Police-induced confessions: risk factors and recommendations, Saul M. Kassin, et. al, Law and Human Behavior, 7/15/09
The substance of false confessions, Brandon Garrett, Stanford Law Review, April 2010
10 controversial convictions based on false confessions, Robin Warder, Listverse, 5/22/13
507: Confessions, This American Life, 10/11/13
The interview: Do police interrogation techniques produce false confessions, Douglas Starr, The New Yorker, 12/9/13 and Rebuttal by John Reid and Associates 12/17/13
Juan Rivera and the dangers of coercive interrogation, Douglas Starr, The New Yorker, 5/22/15
An ex-cop’s remorse: An investigator who probes wrongful convictions now doubts a case of his own, Stephanie Clifford, NewYorker.com, 10/18/16
Homicide detective’s book describes ‘How the Police Generate False Confessions’, Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 10/20/16

Islam – Religion & Culture #

Effects of fasting during Ramadan month on cognitive function in Muslim athletes, Ho-Heng Tian, et. al, Asian Journal of Sports Medicine, September 2011

Jada Denita Lambert / Roy Sharonnie Davis #

An item in Tuesday’s city/county digest omitted the names . . . Staff Reports, Baltimore Sun, 5/5/98
Inmate charged in 1998 killing, Del Quentin Wilber, Baltimore Sun, 1/10/03
Match on police DNA index results in conviction in 1998 rape, murder, Matt Whittaker, Baltimore Sun 7/27/04
Roy Sharonnie Davis, III v. State of Maryland, No. 1134, Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, September Term, 2016

Lividity #

Wiggins v. State, 324 Md. 551 (1991)
Deese v. State, 786 A.2d 293 (2001)
Livor mortis: The science of death, DNews, Seeker, 10/31/11
Forensics: Postmortem changes, Lindsey Harle, Pathology Outlines, 1/12/17 [WARNING – GRAPHIC PHOTOS]

Metro Crime Stoppers #

Metro Crime Stoppers
Metro Crime Stoppers, Inc. Tax records back to 2001 CitizenAudit.org, undated
Articles from Baltimore Sun, keyword tip line
Metro Crime Stoppers fires administrative coordinator, Peter Hermann, 3/1/01
The dark side of Crime Stoppers – False information and police tunnel vision, Phil Locke, The Wrongful Convictions Blog, 12/20/12
Store owner will not get reward for serial robber tip, Justin George, Baltimore Sun, 4/6/15
Does crime stopping pay? Metro Crime Stoppers doles out money to tipsters, but not a lot, Kelcie Pegher, Capital Gazette, 8/16/15
Cash rewards for crime tips gaining ground in Frederick, Jeremy Arias, The Frederick News-Post, 10/17/15
Murder victim’s family questions Metro Crime Stoppers about reward: Daniel Coverston found shot in head in February 2009, Barry Simms, WBALTV11, 11/02/16
IRS Form 990 archive for Metro Crime Stopper INC ProPublica

William Rodriguez #

State v. Wille, 559 So.2d 1321 (1990)
Joe Roy Metheny v. State of Maryland, Ct. App. Md., 7/24/00
Dr. Bill Rodriguez, Body farm founder, Casey Anthony Trial Today in Review, 6/18/11
‘Saint exhumation’ a first for accomplished forensic anthropologist, Maria Wiering, The Catholic Review, 6/11/13
Hidden Maryland: Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Justin George, Baltimore Sun, 7/29/13