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Suspect No. 1: Inside Daniel Yuen’s Missing Person Case

Suspect No. 1: Inside Daniel Yuen’s Missing Person Case

The 2004 disappearance of a New Jersey teenager sent to a notorious San Bernardino County group home for depr…

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Are Police Stifling the Investigation Into Teens Who Vanished From a Controversial Facility?

Are Police Stifling the Investigation Into Teens Who Vanished From a Controversial Facility?

John Inman, Blake Pursley, and Daniel Yuen disappeared from a CEDU facility decades ago. Now, questions swirl…

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Punk Adolescence Lost: In Search of Apathetics Archives

Punk Adolescence Lost: In Search of Apathetics Archives

Like most important stories, this one begins with a cassette deck, an amateur archivist and hundreds of screa…

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Tales From The Colonnade Crypt

Tales From The Colonnade Crypt

In a silly attempt to find ghosts in my apartment, I was aided by local librarians, archivists, and spiritual…

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Less Successful Numbers: The Money of Local Music

Less Successful Numbers: The Money of Local Music

For a local bill, talent buying and barrel-scraping are often comparable. Three or four bands are assembled—o…

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Provocations of a Bad Jingle Writer

Provocations of a Bad Jingle Writer

It’s Thursday afternoon in late August. I am recording a dismal power-metal jingle for CBS Sports and the NFL…

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Inside Daniel Yuen's Missing Person Case

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By David Safran, Kevin Dolak 
| Los Angeles Magazine
On a late Sunday morning in February 2004, the Twin Peaks Station of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department received a call about a male juvenile who had fled from a location intimately known to law enforcement. Soon afterward, a Twin Peaks Station deputy drove out to speak with the reporting party. Daniel Yuen arrived at CEDU, a sprawling but thinly populated private, for-profit residential treatment facility, on January 26, 2004.
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Tales From The Colonnade Crypt

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By David Safran, Elaine Doremus, Monica Kass Rogers, Sherry Thomas
| Evanston Magazine
In February, my girlfriend and I moved into Colonnade Court, a South Evanston building located near the Clairvoyant Center of Chicago and the Toby Jug Museum—Illinois’s version of the Terracotta Army. As soon as we arrived, Emma and I were told the building was haunted, full of secrets. We asked why ghosts were drawn to the Colonnade. “The Piron chocolates downstairs,” was the curt, but understandable, reply.
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