True Crime Article Profile: “Some Day the Truth Will Come Out”
I am a crime historian as well as a mystery writer and critic. Over a century ago in Madison, Wisconsin, a shocking murder turned the city upside-down. A little girl, Annie Lemberger, was kidnapped from her home and brutally slain. The police soon arrested a likely culprit and sent him to prison, but he maintained his innocence. Years later, an ambitious lawyer took on the case, leading to a courtroom scene as dramatic as anything in Perry Mason.
At the end of the proceedings, the world thought that a wrongly imprisoned man had be cleared and that the true guilty party had been identified. But was this truly the case? The second man to be accused argued that he had been framed, though few people wanted to hear his denials. Decades passed, and the case, once the most famous American child murder aside from the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, faded into obscurity.
By the last twentieth century, Annie’s grown nephew, born long after her death, started looking into the case, and realized that corruption and misguided zeal had led to another miscarriage of justice. Mark Lemberger’s book Crime of Magnitude explained his research and conclusions. My article “Some Day the Truth Will Come Out” tells Mark Lemberger’s story.
Mark Lemberger’s website can be found here.
“Some Day the Truth Will Come Out” was published in September 2019, in issue #27 of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine. It won an Honorable Mention for the Kay W. Levin Award for Short Nonfiction from the Council for Wisconsin Writers.
–Chris Chan
Chris Chan’s first book, Sherlock & Irene: The Secret Truth Behind “A Scandal in Bohemia” was released on August 27thfrom MX Publishing, and is available for sale at Amazon.com and the MX Publishing website, as well as at Book Depository (with free worldwide shipping there). It is also available in a Kindle edition.
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