This week’s story took an unexpected turn. At first, I thought I was cleaning the grave of a baby boy—10-month-old Alonzo Rowland, buried alone in Tedrick Cemetery in Douglas County, Missouri. But as I researched his short life, I discovered a much deeper and more mysterious story. Years after Alonzo’s passing, his father, Thomas Rowland, was found dead in his barn under suspicious circumstances. The official inquest ruled that he “came to his death by parties unknown, by means unknown.” Nearly

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