Sarah Stillman

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Finally, on August 16, 2022, nearly four months after her arrest, Mary entered the courtroom in a wheelchair. The judge had no inkling of Mary’s former radiance. Still, he seemed stunned by her skeletal frame. “What are we going to do, Mary?” Judge Howard Fell asked. Mary, who’d been chatty and energetic just months earlier, was too far gone to speak. “She is, as you can see, a shell,” Edminson, her public defender, said. “She needs care immediately.

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Stillman

Carlin Casey first considered the idea of human starvation when he was seven years old. Back then, in 1992, his mother, Mary, read aloud to him and his little sister, Karina, from an unusual bedtime story, Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl.” The family led a life of relative abundance.

May 13, 2024 | newyorker.com | Sarah Stillman

Back then, Le’Essa remembers, her sister was “just a bald little baby with a big old head,” and Adam got to hold her for an hour at a time. Now, at fifteen, Addy told me, “Not seeing my dad is causing real harm.”Last Valentine’s Day, I travelled through a snowstorm to Flint. I’d come to join a team of young investigators from Civil Rights Corps and Public Justice as they met with prospective plaintiffs in living rooms, community centers, and coffee shops.

Dec 14, 2023 | portside.org | Sarah Stillman

Sentenced to Life for an Accident Miles Away Published December 13, 2023 In 1982, when Ian Marcus was nine days old, his father left work and headed home to his family on Long Island on a new moped, only to be killed by a driver who’d run a red light. “Here I was, this twenty-five-year-old widow with a baby,” Ian’s mother, Donna, told me.

Dec 11, 2023 | newyorker.com | Sarah Stillman

In 1982, when Ian Marcus was nine days old, his father left work and headed home to his family on Long Island on a new moped, only to be killed by a driver who’d run a red light. “Here I was, this twenty-five-year-old widow with a baby,” Ian’s mother, Donna, told me. About a year and a half after the accident, when a bearded guy who ran a Brooklyn meat locker asked her out, “it took ten friends to convince me to go.” Her date, Dean Amelkin, arrived with a plastic train set for Ian.