The Skeleton Key Chronicles

16 hours ago

I can’t believe how many cases I'm seeing of faulty AI face recognitions triggering wrongful arrests. At this point this is a PSA everyone needs to have at the ready just in case. 👀

The latest involves a Tennessee grandmother who was taken into custody for something that happened in a state she'd never stepped foot in – North Dakota. Angela Lipps, 50, of Elizabethton spent nearly six months in jail and was even extradited to another state after U.S. Marshals came to her home in July 2025 and placed her under arrest as a fugitive from ND.

It all began when Fargo police began investigating a series of bank fraud cases that happened between April and May 2025. Apparently the suspect used a fake U.S. Army military ID to make a large withdrawal. During the investigation, AI software examining CCTV surveillance from the bank matched the woman to Lipps as a possible suspect. Possible being the key word here, folks.

However, it was a detective who determined Lipps was their suspect after peeping out her social media and driver's license photo. Apparently that quick search was enough evidence to drop multiple charges on the Tennessee grandmother. This led to her being held 108 days in a Tennessee jail without bail, unable to plead her case until she was extradited to North Dakota.

It was only then that Lipps was able to retain a lawyer. And guess how easy it was to exonerate her? It took 2 minutes for her personal bank records to prove she had been in Tennessee when the events had taken place in North Dakota. She was released from jail and her case was dismissed. However she had to find her own way home….and on her own dime.

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

1 day ago

Friday the 13th gets all the attention when people start talking about unlucky dates. But long before that superstition showed up, there was another day people were already side-eyeing on the calendar: March 15.

More than two thousand years ago in ancient Rome, that date became tied to one of the most famous betrayals in history after Julius Caesar was given a heads up by a soothsayer named Spurinna to keep his head on a swivel mid-March.

In 44 BCE, Caesar had recently been declared dictator for life, which made a number of senators uneasy about how much power he was collecting. On the morning of March 15, he headed to a meeting of the Roman Senate inside the Theatre of Pompey in Rome.

During the gathering, a group of senators closed in around him and the meeting quickly turned into one of the most famous betrayals in history, carried out by members of his own government, many of them men he knew personally.

More than two thousand years later, March 15 is still remembered for the same reason people bring it up every year:

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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

2 days ago

For more than thirty years, a random phone call, an abandoned car, and a discovery in the woods have been the only clues in determining what happened to a teenager in Cambridge, Ohio.

It was the afternoon of August 27, 1991, when 17-year-old Robin Stone left her home in Cambridge, Ohio after receiving a phone call. Her mother later recalled overhearing Robin say, “I’ll be right there,” before hanging up. Robin told her mother she was going over to her friend Jody’s house to study and would be home for dinner. But the friend Robin said she was going to see later told family members she never arrived. She was seven months pregnant at the time and had already chosen a name for her baby, Zack.

Later that evening, around 8:30 p.m., Robin’s car was found along Claysville Road outside Cambridge. The vehicle, a Ford Granada, had been left parked beside an abandoned trailer along a quiet rural stretch of roadway surrounded by fields and patches of woods. There was no sign of Robin anywhere nearby, and nothing immediately explained why her car had been left there.

Robin had told her family where she was going, yet she never reached that house, and her car had ended up sitting miles away along a rural roadside.

For months, the case remained unanswered as search efforts and investigative work continued throughout the area. Then on December 28, 1991, hunters moving through a wooded area off Luburgh Lane near Luburgh Lake in Guernsey County came across human remains roughly a mile from where Robin’s car had been found months earlier along Claysville Road.

Authorities later confirmed the remains belonged to Robin. Investigators determined her death was not accidental, although the condition in which she was discovered prevented them from determining the exact cause.

Detectives continued working the case in the montha that followed, and looked into Robin’s boyfriend at the time, Lee Savage, and his father Jack, but authorities have said no physical evidence ever connected either man to the crime. After years without new evidence or additional information the investigation eventually stalled, and after about two years the case went cold.

More than two decades later, in 2014, the case drew renewed attention when the television series Cold Justice brought two investigators to Guernsey County to review the evidence alongside local authorities and take another look at the circumstances surrounding Robin’s disappearance and death.

Robin’s younger sister Jamie Edwards was ten years old when Robin disappeared. In the decades since, she has continued speaking publicly about her sister and working to keep attention on the case, hoping someone who remembers something from that afternoon in 1991 might eventually come forward. Jamie also started a petition calling for new state legislation that would require every law enforcement agency in Ohio to list unsolved cases on their website.

More than three decades later, the case remains unsolved.

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