Mary's Mosaic: Toward Consensus

[Jim DiEugenio]

Acting against type, I shall now play the role of consensus builder.

For your consideration: The falsification of Peter Janney's MPM assassination hypothesis would not resolve the assassination/common crime conundrum at the core of this unsolved murder.

I don't think its well said.

Because I don't know what you mean by the first phrase: "The falsification of Peter Janney's MPM assassination hypothesis...."

If you would have substituted "falseness" for "falsification" then I think I would have understood the sentence. But the way you wrote it seems to impute that someone did the falsifying. When, in fact, that is not accurate. Janney and Damore decided to go down the path they did e.g. Leary, Douglass, etc.

I will say this as to what I think you are trying to state: The Meyer case would have been better served if no one had written another book on it instead of the book that Mary's Mosaic is. Once Burleigh filled in the relentless life of crime that Crump embarked upon after the trial, I think that is about as far as anyone could take the case. And, to my knowledge, that had not been done before. And was therefore new.

If people wish to say the murder of Meyer is not solved, I really do not have a serious problem with that. Although personally, I think its hard to ignore Crump's record afterwards.