Contested Cases

After the Debunking: Reading *We Believe the Children* From the Other Side of 2019

Richard Beck published his book against the satanic panic in August 2015, sixteen months before Pizzagate, four years before Jeffrey Epstein's arrest, and four years before the False Memory Syndrome Foundation dissolved itself. The post-2019 record asks questions the 2015 book was not built to answer.

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Contested Cases

764 Arrests and Prosecutions: May 2026 Roundup

Where the federal cases against the 764 network stand as of late May 2026: the verified ledger of charges, guilty pleas, and sentences, the FBI's open-investigation count, and one widely shared case that does not belong on the list.

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Contested Cases

Franklin Scandal Timeline: 1988 to 1999

A dated chronology of the Franklin case, from the 1988 credit union seizure to the 1999 Bonacci v. King civil judgment, including the grand jury hoax findings.

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Unsolved Murders

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Murders

Inside the Watts Family Finances: Thrive, Debt, and a Double Life

The financial pressure behind the Chris Watts murders: Thrive MLM, $70K in debt, Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and the widening gap between Shanann Watts' curated.

Murders

Chris Watts in Prison: Letters, Religion, and the Myth of Redemption

Chris Watts claims to have found God in prison, writes letters blaming everyone but himself, and receives fan mail from women proposing marriage.

Murders

Chris Watts and the Psychology of the Introvert

Why narcissist and sociopath labels fail to explain Chris Watts. What Jung's psychological types, the shadow, and archetypal inflation reveal about him.

Unsolved Disappearances

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Investigation Hubs

Multi-part investigations that connect individual cases to broader patterns of institutional failure, forensic science, and criminal psychology.

Murders

Pittsburgh's Drowning Gap

Suspicious deaths in the Three Rivers region that resist the accidental drowning explanation.

Murders

The Chris Watts Case

Case profile, interrogation analysis, and the criminology of family annihilation.

Forensic Science

Order of Nine Angles

From occult fringe to global threat: O9A, 764, and the FBI informant who built the machine.

Forensic Science

Forensic Interview Techniques

Evidence-based alternatives to the Reid Technique: Cognitive Interview, SUE, and Kernberg.

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