The Footsteps in the Dark Podcast

02/27/2025

This is a long update and includes a significant section on Tammy's case. I know most of you are here for her case, and this update covers most of what I've learned since episode 9 came out. The break that I thought occurred ended up deflating some...and I explain it in this post on Patreon.

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02/27/2025

Safranski case: Subject of Interest

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02/26/2025

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02/26/2025

What's happening...

1. Posts on Season Two coming out weekly to get everyone familiar with Season Two.
2. Release of Season Two in April- will be only on Patreon for all subscribers until I know more about the journalist digging into the case.
3. Begin case three- Veronica Safranski. This case needs people willing to help ASAP. It will NOT be a 'wait for two years' for a season and will happen in 'near' real time. IOW, develop material and produce an episode, then develop more and another episode. This is a case that needs public attention now...with boots on the ground and ears in the air. The family wants to find their mother's remains...and it starts with figuring out where to look. Thus...

We need to know what people know. We will be developing a strategy and begin public awareness, a tipline for anonymous reports and organize a very public effort to search for locations where she may be.

Patreon members will be the main group involved. We need members to develop funds that we can use to mount an effective search campaign and will need lots of people with different backgrounds to take on this endeavor.

It is time to take this podcast into a new realm. Time to kick it up a notch in 2025! I hope you'll consider making a difference.

02/25/2025

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02/23/2025

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02/21/2025

Only a few more to go! This guy is one of this season's most important characters...and not for good reasons. Hint: Why would a charge be dropped from 2nd degree possession to 5th? Anyone have a guess?

02/20/2025

When John was convicted a second time, it hinged on recordings the conman made while cooperating with law enforcement. Former Faribault Det. Bob Vogelsberg provided the recorder to the conman. Both John and Vogelsberg remembered the same event...which does not show up in the recordings. In 2016, John had the recordings forensically analyzed...and the analyst concluded more than 18 minutes was missing from multiple areas in the recordings.

Bob Vogelsberg died in a construction accident in 2021...but the PI got him to sign an affidavit about the recordings.

02/19/2025

How can the system prevent people from having their arguments properly heard and evaluated? How can "they" prevent the media from seeing evidence?

Just block the filings so nobody can see them. In 2021, more than 500 pages of evidence was submitted in John's case and almost 50% of was blocked from view. I read through the .pdf the PI sent...and it was all the most pertinent exculpatory evidence.

Investigations are supposed to be directed at uncovering the truth and reacting according to the truth...not this.

02/19/2025

02/19/2025

Over the past few days, the PI, John's attorney and I worked to piece together the court filings that the MN MCRO website has blocked from public view. Yep, it was the exculpatory stuff.

John served his sentence and was released...and they still play games so the public, as well as reports, can't see what really happened.

No wonder they are spreading rumors about John around DA's offices in MN. Pure gaslighting.

02/16/2025

The PI pointed a journalist to specific filings in John's case which should be publicly available on the MN MCRO website. The filings were affidavits of the PI, a co-defendant who recanted, etc.

Guess what? They are now blocked from public view and cannot be accessed.

Your Minnesota tax dollars at work.

02/16/2025

I received this today. Apparently grown up attorneys are not immune to gossip and rumors.

Several weeks ago, John met with his case worker. The case worker told him that everyone was "on edge" regarding John's release...because John is some kind of tempermental criminal. He laughed.

John is polite and considerate...but he can get frustrated talking aboutg his cases, and that is normal and expected. John isn't what these highly educated adults are spreading. John gave him one of the podcast postcards.

BTW, John was blindsided by his attorney. The attorney didn't sign the 'Motion to Withdraw' until a week before trial, then turned it in on the day of. The judge let it happen and John was forced to represent himself. This is all plainly evident in the trial transcripts, which will be among dozens of upcoming posts on the Patreon page.

As I've said before, if something happens to me...I didn't do it and it wasn't an accident.

For more than 17 years, John has been adamant he was set up, framed and wrongfully convicted. This is what the attorneys are likely referencing. After all, I didn't believe it either at the beginning...

02/16/2025

Anything else need to be said?

02/16/2025

She was...Tammy.

02/16/2025

Tammy kept your pictures in a scrapbook. She cared.