The trauma detective who combs through killers’ pasts to help them find mercy [theguardian.com]
Sara Baldwin’s job was to mine James Bernard Belcher’s past for information that might sway a jury towards mercy after he killed Jennifer Embry. Photograph: Melanie Garcia/The Marshall Project By Maurice Chammah, The Guardian (co-published by the Marshall Project), March 2, 2023 The first mystery was who could have done such a thing, who could leave someone like that. Jennifer Embry was found in her bathtub in January 1996. She was 29. Her younger brother Ricky had come looking for her after...