Index

This alphabetical index is not always current, but it points to some historical developments. Use the search box in the right-hand panel to search for names or phrases.

The links below take you to individual blog postings, arranged by subject and/or names referenced. I offer this list as an alternative to clicking through the blogs to see what’s there.

Ackley, Leo

• Successful appeal
• Appeal overturned

Allison, Clayton (“Breathtaking Strength Under Heartless Interrogation”)

Aspelin Family

Avila, Robert

“Baby Yoga” – unsettling form of infant exercise, covered in the tabloids

Bailey, Réne

Baker, Jeff

Baumer, Julie – exonerated

Bernhard, Adele

Biomechanical research – Jumparoo study

Bravos, Zachary, attorney (“Parents, Meet the Experts; Experts, Meet the Parents)

Brumfield, Amanda

Burns, Joshua (“Does the Brain Injury Prove Abuse, or Not?”)

Calise, Tiffani

Curtis, Jason

Del Prete, Jennifer

Everson, Thomas and Brandi (“Medical Child Abuse: Be Careful What you Post”)

Fakoya, Victor (“Fathers in the Cross-Hairs”)

Family Defense Center (“A Family Appeals Court Gets It Right”)

Findley, Keith (“Well Said: Law Reviews Address SBS”)

Freeman, Mark (“Can Hospitals Be Held Accountable?”)

Gilcrist, Robert (“Fathers in the Cross-Hairs”)

Greeley, Christopher MD (“Separating the Sheep From the Wolves”)

Green, Rico (“Short Falls, Long Sentences”)

Griffith, Megan (“Finding a Voice, and a Community”)

Guthkelch, A. Norman MD

• Profile, 2013
• Videotaped interview, 2014, about 20 mins
• Obituary, 2016

Heale, Michelle (“Does the Brain Injury Prove Abuse, or Not?”)

Hershey Medical Center (“Can Hospitals Be Held Accountable?”)

History of SBS     See also individual chapters about the early speculations and the Duhaime research

Holmgren, Brian

Howes, Ashley

Innocent verdicts

• ‘Dave,’ New Zealand case
• Russ Van Vleck
• Kristian Aspelin
• Kelly Kline
• Quentin Stone
• Damien Marsden

Journey With “Justice,”  by Dan Schrock

Kellogg, Nancy MD  (“Old Theories Die Hard“)

Kline, Kelly

Li, Hangbin and Ying

• Initial posting, January 2011
• Hangbin Li turns down plea bargain
• A letter from the couple’s supporters
• Charges Dropped Against Ying Li
• Conviction
• Sentencing

Lopez, Ernie

• Initial posting (one of the cases covered in the series discussed)
• Conviction overturned
• Released from prison

Lloyd, John, Phd., Biomechanic  – Jumparoo study

Lynøe, Dr. Niels (“Swedish report” on shaken baby syndrome)

Marsden, Damien

Matchin, Colin James

Medical Child Abuse

Mills, Martha

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

Narang, Sandeep

NPR, PBS, and Pro Publica

• “The Child Cases”
• Ernie Lopez conviction overturned
• Ernie Lopez released from prison
• “Rethinking Shaken Baby Syndrome”
• Shirley Smith coverage

Olsa, Stephanie

Peixoto, Brian

Plunkett, John MD

• “Champion of Justice, 1947–2018“
• “The Syndrome Promises Fireworks“
• “Evidence-Based Medicine and Shaken Baby Syndrome”

Rickets cases

“San Antonio Four”

Satanic ritual abuse (“Old Theories Die Hard“)

SBU (Swedish agency that studied the shaken baby literature)

• Study, 2016
• Acta Paediatrica article, 2017

Scenes of a Crime, by Grover Backcock and Blue Hadaegh

Schrock, Barb and Dan

Smith, Shirley Ree

• Initial posting – (“Supreme Court Disappoints“)
• First follow-up
• Writing in support of a pardon
• NPR coverage
• Governor Brown Grants Clemency
• Surfing the Web With Shirley Smith
• Prosecutor Brian Holgrem’s rebuttal to the minority opinion

Spurgeon, Stephanie

Squier, Dr. Waney

• TED Tallk
• Research
• “Silent Witness” episode
• General Medical Council accusations
• Guilty of Intellectual Honesty
• Reinstated

Stone, Quentin (“A Yolo County Jury Believes the Father”)

Syndrome, The (a film about shaken baby syndrome)

• “‘The Syndrome’ Promises Fireworks”   (interview with the filmmaker)
• “‘The Syndrome’ Trailer Makes Waves”  (push back from the child abuse experts)
• “Finding a Voice, and a Community” (about the premier showing)

Tatara, David (“Chess With a Handicap”)

Thomas, Adrian

• “Scenes of a Crime,” the movie
• Found innocent at second trial

Truang, Nga (“Coerced Confession Backfires”)

Tuerkheimer, Deborah

Van Vleck, Russ (“Surviving Justice”)

Weaver, Mary

Wilkes, Robert James “Dave”

• New findings
• Appeal denied

Witt, Drayton (“Arizona Father Freed”)

Woods, Dr. Joan (“An Evolving Theory, A Tragic Tale”)

Zapana, Victor (“Another SBS Tragedy, Reflected and Amplified“)