On June 30, 1982, 35-year-old Robert Camden died in Camden, Alabama, a small Wilcox County town where news often traveled by word of mouth long before it ever reached anything like a searchable database. Today, the trail that should exist behind a violent or suspicious death—police summaries, courthouse dockets, local-paper coverage, even the kind of retrospective reporting that sometimes resurfaces decades later—does not appear in the publicly accessible online record in a way that can be t
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