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The Jackson Files

Jackson is Mississippi's capital and a crossroads for the state's courts, archives, civil-rights history, and modern investigations. In The Jackson Files, J.R. Stranahan follows seven carefully documented cases across Jackson and central Mississippi. The record begins with the murder of Medgar Evers, the killings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, and the deaths of Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green at Jackson State. It continues through the murders of Avis Banks and her unborn son, the hate-crime conspiracy that killed James Craig Anderson, eight deaths across three Lincoln County homes, and the torture of Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker by Rankin County officers. Drawing on court opinions, government records, institutional archives, and responsible reporting, this account explains what investigators alleged, what witnesses testified, what courts decided, and what remained unresolved as of September 2, 2026.

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The Gulf Coast Files

The Mississippi Gulf Coast is a narrow region joined by highways, ports, shipyards, casinos, bayous, and municipal boundaries. In The Gulf Coast Files, J.R. Stranahan follows seven carefully documented cases across Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson counties. The record includes the renewed investigation of the deaths of Janie Sanders, Debra Gunter, and Clara Turk; the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter; the identification of Clara Birdlong; the murders of Jeannette Holden and Dorothy Tassin; the killings of Vincent and Margaret Sherry and the federal Dixie Mafia prosecutions; the death of Michelle Lynn Craite; and the unresolved killings of Rong Chen, Mei Rong Li, and Mei Jin Li. Drawing on court opinions, government records, public archives, and responsible reporting, this account explains what investigators alleged, what juries found, what appellate courts changed, and what remained unresolved as of September 2, 2026.

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The Hattiesburg Files

Hattiesburg sits at the center of Mississippi's Pine Belt, where rail lines, universities, hospitals, courts, and law-enforcement jurisdictions meet. In The Hattiesburg Files, J.R. Stranahan follows seven carefully documented cases across Forrest and Jones counties. The record includes the lynching of Howard Wash, the prosecution and exoneration of Clyde Kennard, the murder of Vernon Dahmer, the wrongful convictions of Larry Ruffin, Bobby Ray Dixon, and Phillip Bivens in Eva Gail Patterson's case, the killing of Rhonda Hatten Griffis, the murders of Vernon Hulett and Linda Heintzelman, and the deaths of Hattiesburg police officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate. Drawing on court opinions, government records, archives, and responsible reporting, this account explains what investigators alleged, what juries decided, what later evidence changed, and what the public record showed as of September 2, 2026.

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The Oxford and Tupelo Files

Oxford and Tupelo anchor a northeast Mississippi corridor of universities, courthouses, hospitals, highways, and small communities. In The Oxford and Tupelo Files, J.R. Stranahan follows seven carefully documented cases across Lafayette, Lee, Tishomingo, and Noxubee counties. The record includes the deaths of Paul Guihard and Ray Gunter during the 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi, the disappearance of Leigh Occhi, the murders of Courtney Smith and Christine Jackson and the exonerations of Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer, the Edward Byrom prosecution, the fatal shooting of Sergeant Kevin Gale Stauffer Jr. and critical wounding of Officer Joseph Edward Maher during a multistate bank-robbery investigation, the murder of Ally Kostial, and the disappearance and death of Jay Lee. Drawing on court opinions, government records, public archives, and responsible reporting, this account explains what evidence proved, what later science changed, and what remained unresolved as of September 2, 2026.

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The Delta Files

The Mississippi Delta is a floodplain, a cultural region, and a corridor shaped by the river, highways, county lines, and courthouses. In The Delta Files, J.R. Stranahan follows seven carefully documented cases from Leflore and Tallahatchie counties through the wider river corridor. The record includes the murder of Emmett Till; the deaths of Henry Dee and Charles Moore; the killing of Ben Chester White; the murders of Bertha Tardy, Robert Golden, Carmen Rigby, and Derrick Stewart and the six prosecutions of Curtis Flowers; the murder of Marco McMillian; the killing of Tymoneshia Parson; and five deaths in Yazoo City. Drawing on court opinions, government records, public archives, and responsible reporting, this account explains what witnesses established, what later proceedings changed, and what the public record showed as of September 2, 2026.

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The Complete Files

Mississippi is often pictured through river towns, Gulf beaches, college communities, pine forests, and the streets of its capital. Behind those familiar images are cases that changed families, tested courts, exposed abuses of power, and left questions that still reach across the state.

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