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Kevin Serna
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Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.
By 2024, all charges had been dropped.
Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.
The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home.
For @dwellmagazine latest issue - Ed-Tech entrepreneurs, Sue Khim and Silas Hundt with their kids inside their Hyde Park townhome designed by I.M. Pei and Harry Weese during the late 1950’s.
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@alexzcasto
@cosmic_ghost
For @dwellmagazine latest issue - Ed-Tech entrepreneurs, Sue Khim and Silas Hundt with their kids inside their Hyde Park townhome designed by I.M. Pei and Harry Weese during the late 1950’s.
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@alexzcasto
@cosmic_ghost
For @dwellmagazine latest issue - Ed-Tech entrepreneurs, Sue Khim and Silas Hundt with their kids inside their Hyde Park townhome designed by I.M. Pei and Harry Weese during the late 1950’s.
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@alexzcasto
@cosmic_ghost
For @dwellmagazine latest issue - Ed-Tech entrepreneurs, Sue Khim and Silas Hundt with their kids inside their Hyde Park townhome designed by I.M. Pei and Harry Weese during the late 1950’s.
TY
@alexzcasto
@cosmic_ghost
For @dwellmagazine latest issue - Ed-Tech entrepreneurs, Sue Khim and Silas Hundt with their kids inside their Hyde Park townhome designed by I.M. Pei and Harry Weese during the late 1950’s.
TY
@alexzcasto
@cosmic_ghost
For @dwellmagazine latest issue - Ed-Tech entrepreneurs, Sue Khim and Silas Hundt with their kids inside their Hyde Park townhome designed by I.M. Pei and Harry Weese during the late 1950’s.
TY
@alexzcasto
@cosmic_ghost
For @dwellmagazine latest issue - Ed-Tech entrepreneurs, Sue Khim and Silas Hundt with their kids inside their Hyde Park townhome designed by I.M. Pei and Harry Weese during the late 1950’s.
TY
@alexzcasto
@cosmic_ghost
For @dwellmagazine latest issue - Ed-Tech entrepreneurs, Sue Khim and Silas Hundt with their kids inside their Hyde Park townhome designed by I.M. Pei and Harry Weese during the late 1950’s.
TY
@alexzcasto
@cosmic_ghost
For @dwellmagazine latest issue - Ed-Tech entrepreneurs, Sue Khim and Silas Hundt with their kids inside their Hyde Park townhome designed by I.M. Pei and Harry Weese during the late 1950’s.
TY
@alexzcasto
@cosmic_ghost
Jacqueline Trapp at her home in Wisconsin for @businessweek story about the costs of cancer care in America. Jacqueline has delt with a type of cancer called Multiple Myeloma for the past decade and with insurance has paid a cumulative $100k in out of pocket costs (not including premium payments and other costs of tests).
Thank you @aeriel78 for the call.
Jacqueline Trapp at her home in Wisconsin for @businessweek story about the costs of cancer care in America. Jacqueline has delt with a type of cancer called Multiple Myeloma for the past decade and with insurance has paid a cumulative $100k in out of pocket costs (not including premium payments and other costs of tests).
Thank you @aeriel78 for the call.
Making robotic hands work the way human hands do is apparently very very hard.A couple weeks ago, I got to spend the afternoon at Northwestern’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems documenting researchers and their progress toward solving ‘the hand-problem’ holding back the humanoid revolution.
Check out the full story at @wsj Thank you @shelbsknowles for the call! 🦾
Making robotic hands work the way human hands do is apparently very very hard.A couple weeks ago, I got to spend the afternoon at Northwestern’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems documenting researchers and their progress toward solving ‘the hand-problem’ holding back the humanoid revolution.
Check out the full story at @wsj Thank you @shelbsknowles for the call! 🦾
Making robotic hands work the way human hands do is apparently very very hard.A couple weeks ago, I got to spend the afternoon at Northwestern’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems documenting researchers and their progress toward solving ‘the hand-problem’ holding back the humanoid revolution.
Check out the full story at @wsj Thank you @shelbsknowles for the call! 🦾
Making robotic hands work the way human hands do is apparently very very hard.A couple weeks ago, I got to spend the afternoon at Northwestern’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems documenting researchers and their progress toward solving ‘the hand-problem’ holding back the humanoid revolution.
Check out the full story at @wsj Thank you @shelbsknowles for the call! 🦾
Making robotic hands work the way human hands do is apparently very very hard.A couple weeks ago, I got to spend the afternoon at Northwestern’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems documenting researchers and their progress toward solving ‘the hand-problem’ holding back the humanoid revolution.
Check out the full story at @wsj Thank you @shelbsknowles for the call! 🦾
Making robotic hands work the way human hands do is apparently very very hard.A couple weeks ago, I got to spend the afternoon at Northwestern’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems documenting researchers and their progress toward solving ‘the hand-problem’ holding back the humanoid revolution.
Check out the full story at @wsj Thank you @shelbsknowles for the call! 🦾
A few minutes with Klaus Mäkelä for @chicagomag at the CSO.
Mäkelä, 29, will become the youngest music director to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in its history.
Ty team! 🙏🏼 🙏🏼
Photo Director: @cosmic_ghost
Design Director: David Syrek
Lighting asst. @dbeeson
Grooming: @cammykelly
A few minutes with Klaus Mäkelä for @chicagomag at the CSO.
Mäkelä, 29, will become the youngest music director to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in its history.
Ty team! 🙏🏼 🙏🏼
Photo Director: @cosmic_ghost
Design Director: David Syrek
Lighting asst. @dbeeson
Grooming: @cammykelly
A few minutes with Klaus Mäkelä for @chicagomag at the CSO.
Mäkelä, 29, will become the youngest music director to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in its history.
Ty team! 🙏🏼 🙏🏼
Photo Director: @cosmic_ghost
Design Director: David Syrek
Lighting asst. @dbeeson
Grooming: @cammykelly
View Instagram Stories in Secret
The Instagram Story Viewer is an easy tool that lets you secretly watch and save Instagram stories, videos, photos, or IGTV. With this service, you can download content and enjoy it offline whenever you like. If you find something interesting on Instagram that you’d like to check out later or want to view stories while staying anonymous, our Viewer is perfect for you. Anonstories offers an excellent solution for keeping your identity hidden. Instagram first launched the Stories feature in August 2023, which was quickly adopted by other platforms due to its engaging, time-sensitive format. Stories let users share quick updates, whether photos, videos, or selfies, enhanced with text, emojis, or filters, and are visible for only 24 hours. This limited time frame creates high engagement compared to regular posts. In today’s world, Stories are one of the most popular ways to connect and communicate on social media. However, when you view a Story, the creator can see your name in their viewer list, which may be a privacy concern. What if you wish to browse Stories without being noticed? Here’s where Anonstories becomes useful. It allows you to watch public Instagram content without revealing your identity. Simply enter the username of the profile you’re curious about, and the tool will display their latest Stories. Features of Anonstories Viewer: - Anonymous Browsing: Watch Stories without showing up on the viewer list. - No Account Needed: View public content without signing up for an Instagram account. - Content Download: Save any Stories content directly to your device for offline use. - View Highlights: Access Instagram Highlights, even beyond the 24-hour window. - Repost Monitoring: Track the reposts or engagement levels on Stories for personal profiles. Limitations: - This tool works only with public accounts; private accounts remain inaccessible. Benefits: - Privacy-Friendly: Watch any Instagram content without being noticed. - Simple and Easy: No app installation or registration required. - Exclusive Tools: Download and manage content in ways Instagram doesn’t offer.
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Frequently asked questions
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Anonstories lets users view Instagram stories without alerting the creator.
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Works seamlessly on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and modern browsers like Chrome and Safari.
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Prioritizes secure, anonymous browsing without requiring login credentials.
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Users can view public stories by simply entering a username—no account needed.
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Downloads photos (JPEG) and videos (MP4) with ease.
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