Cases N–Z: source audit and follow-up research

Research date: September 7, 2026. Scope: existing entry filenames N–Z. Read the editorial policy and September 5 research notes; inventoried entry titles/statuses across this range, then closely reviewed selected unresolved cases and court-backed histories. This is not a claim that every case received a new archival search. No new identities or suspects are proposed. Four entries were revised.

Changes supported by newly checked sources

Sidney Reso: a sentencing correction and the invented environmental group

Entry: reso-sidney-kidnapped-1992.html.

United States v. Seale, 20 F.3d 1279 (April 7, 1994) gives $18.5 million as the ransom pursued, rather than the early clipping’s $15 million. It identifies the supposed environmental organization as a cover for the Seales’ extortion scheme, records death four days after the abduction, and records continued ransom efforts for six weeks afterward. No ransom was paid before arrest.
Government brief in Seale v. United States, No. 24-594 (2025), pp. 7–9 documents a December 30, 2022 order vacating the firearm count and its consecutive five-year sentence. The amended criminal judgment entered January 3, 2023 left 90 years, correcting repetition of the original 95-year term. The entry dates this development rather than claiming a present custody status.
The original sentences and criminal outcome remain in the historical narrative. The source is a government litigation brief describing orders, not a new trial finding about the crime.
Follow-up: review the amended judgment itself and final Supreme Court docket disposition if adding further procedural history. Do not describe the vacated firearm count as exoneration from the kidnapping/extortion convictions.

Allen Bodine Scott: a murder story becomes a patients’ rights case

Entry: scott-allen-bodine-1954.html.

Scott v. Plante, 532 F.2d 939 (March 29, 1976) documents Scott’s self-filed complaints concerning treatment, medication without consent, conditions, and continued confinement. Removed the stale suggestion that the criminal outcome was simply unavailable: the same page already established no trial and dismissal of the indictment.
Scott v. Plante, 691 F.2d 634 (October 18, 1982) records the appellate reconsideration after Youngberg v. Romeo and renewed remand concerning treatment, less restrictive placement, and damages. Search-indexed opinion text is more extensive than the vLex rendered preview.
The entry distinguishes a remand for further proceedings from a damages award, factual vindication of every complaint, or release. Later disposition and Scott’s ultimate placement are not established here.

Theodore Pohlig and Glen Renna: uncertainty in the actual opinion

Entry: theodore-pohlig-1972-murderer.html (URL preserved).

State v. Dissicini, 126 N.J. Super. 565 (February 14, 1974) is a separate defendant’s appeal. It records Dissicini’s kidnapping acquittal, second-degree murder conviction, duress argument, and affirmance.
Correction: the old page said Renna was alive or near death when taken to the grave. The opinion says Dissicini testified he believed Renna already dead, while the medical examiner could not determine this. The revised page preserves this uncertainty.
Correction: removed “1972 murderer” from the HTML title and breadcrumb because Pohlig’s own verdict has not been found in the sources checked. His arrest remains documented. Parent/index maintainer should also avoid propagating the old display title in generated indexes.
The immunity of the principal witnesses is now explicit. The opinion’s treatment of the defendants’ club affiliations does not match every detail of the original clipping; do not silently resolve those discrepancies by treating the defendants interchangeably.
Best next source: Camden County’s 1972 docket and newspaper reports immediately following the deliberations, seeking Pohlig’s specific verdict and sentence.

James I. Wainwright: veterans, electoral conflict, and courtroom folklore

Entry: wainright-james-1884-bamber.html.

Downloaded and read Steven J. Baeli, “The Murder of James I. Wainwright: Victim of Love,” Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission, Spring 2011, pp. 15–18. Web reader failed, but direct download and text extraction succeeded. PDF is a four-page article extract with printed pages 15–18.
Added the veterans’ organization’s role in search and funeral, and the election dispute as historical research leads. Prior-note correction: Baeli says Rockwell won the 1881 nomination but lost the election; the September 5 note incorrectly said Wainwright cost him the nomination.
Added the existence of ballads and courtroom-haunting stories as folklore history, not a claim that a ghost exists. Baeli’s much stronger accusations against acquitted family members are explicitly distinguished from the verdict.
Reconciled the stale cemetery uncertainty: Baeli is a published source for six years served and graves roughly twenty-five feet apart, but prison-release and burial records still require independent verification.
Follow-up: locate the songs/ballads and earliest haunting account; compare the trial transcript and 1881 election coverage with the later narrative. Baeli’s account offers no primary citations for individual dialogue or asserted private motives, so those were not adopted.

Mystery leads reviewed, with no unsupported additions

Existing entry	Productive next question	Constraint
`new-lisbon-diabetic-missing-1954`	Find search outcome after July 4, 1954 in Burlington/Ocean papers or public institution annual reports.	The contemporary institution withheld the fourteen-year-old’s name. No speculative identity matching.
`notebook-man-1927`	Recover an upright, readable version of the clipping.	No usable name, place, masthead, or text; a broad web search cannot repair the source.
`perry-joseph-1928`	Trace Camden coverage after July 24, 1928 for release, charges, or trial.	Material witnesses are not established perpetrators; Frankie Yale connection remains a police theory.
`philips-mary-atsion-1880`	Locate the coroner’s verdict and date the two briefs.	Neck injury and interpretations conflict; no basis to select homicide or accident.
`quicklime-body-1935`	Identification notices, burial order, coroner’s report after August 15–16, 1935; verify Beck’s unnamed case.	New web queries did not produce a usable new identification; earlier conflicting time-of-death estimates remain.
`shull-harry-h-captain-1917`	Search Cumberland papers immediately after the scheduled Thursday inquest following October 16, 1917.	Missing money is relatives’ concern, not proof of robbery or homicide.
`stiletto-murder-1892`	Atlantic County inquest and follow-up after October 27; Philadelphia missing-person reports.	Name and origin remain unverified; ethnicity was the reporter’s attribution.
`tote-pin-man-1928`	Check Ewing coroner and Saginaw notices after November 11, 1928; verify pin interpretation.	Insignia or partial address cannot establish identity or membership.
`towns-anna-1836-poison-liquor`	Use named investigators to bracket clipping date, then seek Dr. Brower’s autopsy result.	1836 is her Philadelphia street number, not an event year.
`woods-katie-1895-murdered`	Locate Cinnaminson inquest and outcome of John Woods’s detention.	Arrest on suspicion is not a conviction.
`para-dice-club`	Date the California classified and identify the business from a directory.	Shared spelling supplies no demonstrated Zodiac link or Pine Barrens location.
`seaview-county-proposed-1873`	Legislative journals and bill indexes, also under “Sea View.”	New web query did not corroborate the title-only lead.
`nehrwein-*`	Compare original German/English inquest reporting and teacher/insurance documents.	Existing pages/prior notes already contain many leads; no new independent identification found in this pass.

David Paul’s companion appeal was also located: State v. James, 96 N.J.L. 132 (June 20, 1921). Its accessible excerpt confirms separate trials and an objection concerning exclusion of women from the jury pool. This is a possible future social-history angle, but no new paragraph was added without a fuller reading of the opinion. The reporter text calls the victim David S. Paul, differing from the archive’s David F.; retain as a source discrepancy for a death certificate or bank-record check rather than silently changing his name.

Verification

The four revised pages retain existing structure and URLs and add direct source links beside the new claims. No maps, search records, or indexes were edited in this subtask. Source collection allegations were not promoted to findings. No external messages, archive requests, or records purchases were made.