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From Gimlet, this is reply-all, MPJ vote, and I'm Alex Goldman.

Hey guys. Hey, Truthie.

I'm an Aini. I too am here with a story. I live, you have been working on this

right for I think my whole life. That's definitely what it feels like. It started off really

small. It was last February. I've been looking, I've been trying to contact somebody in prison.

This was for another story. I just happened to stumble upon this thing that altered the

course of my whole next year. It's a blog by this guy named Paul Medrawski. He's in a maximum

security prison. He has a life sentence. For years, he's been keeping this blog.

Where's the prison?

The prison's called Stateville. It's in Illinois.

What does he do? Paul was linked to a murder that happened back in 1992. On his blog, Paul

says he had nothing to do with it. It's actually not at all the focus of the blog, which is why

I found it. Interesting. Let me show you the blog. It looks very unpolished. It's on

Blogspot, which is like, and it looks like a blogspot blog. This was made using a template.

Right. Each one of these posts is super long. This guy likes to go ahead. That's just

one post. Here's the whole table of contents. It's like Ebola, the NFL under siege, the

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