Circumstantial Evidence: Anatomy of a Midwestern Murder

Sarah Gonstead disappeared in the early morning of March 15, 1994 in Madison, Wisconsin, after she and Penny Brummer had been out drinking. She was later found dead. Six months later, with no physical evidence, no witnesses to the crime and no murder weapon, a jury convicted Penny Brummer of first-degree murder. But did Brummer do it? Or was Brummer herself a victim of over-zealous prosecutors, tunnel-vision investigators, un-reviewed forensic scientists, and a politician-judge?