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: Before he could stand trial, Dolezal was found dead in his jail cell, hanging by his own belt. While officially ruled a suicide, Badal uses modern forensic analysis to challenge this conclusion, questioning if Dolezal was actually murdered to cover up police incompetence. A "CSI-Style" Historical Investigation

: Exploration of how the high-profile failure to catch the real killer tarnished the reputation of then-Safety Director Eliot Ness . Though Murder Has No Tongue Though Murder Has No Tongue (James Jessen Bada…

: Dolezal was held under harsh conditions and interrogated for days. Authorities eventually announced he had confessed, though modern re-evaluations—and Badal’s research—suggest this confession was coerced through mistreatment and physical beatings. : Before he could stand trial, Dolezal was

Dolezal was an easy target for a city desperate for a scapegoat: Though Murder Has No Tongue : Dolezal was

: Access to private investigator notes and police reports from the era.

Badal, a journalism professor and board member of the Cleveland Police Historical Society, approaches the cold case with the rigor of a modern forensic investigator. He utilizes a wealth of archival materials to reconstruct the events: