Key witnesses kept dying before their testimony could be completed

Evidence

Kelly had said, “There’s twenty-one barrels buried back there, under the warehouse. They better not dig there.” But Schlichtmann would never find out what Kelly knew. Kelly had died of a heart attack not long after speaking to Pasqueriella. And Vincent Forte, who was reputed to have known everything that went on at the plant, had also died of a heart attack, on the eve of his second deposition. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 975

Categorization

• FICTION: Worldbuilding spark: a lawsuit where the evidence keeps dying of natural causes, and no one can prove it isn’t coincidence.
• SHARE: For the true-crime friend who loves a run of suspiciously timely deaths.
• XREF: connects to: Abane’s death details remain unconfirmed because no witness would speak; Fear of retaliation makes witnesses collectively ignore institutional wrongdoing — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 483

Broader Connections

• Abane’s death details remain unconfirmed because no witness would speak #exemplifies (0.75)
• Fear of retaliation makes witnesses collectively ignore institutional wrongdoing #exemplifies (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 483