August 5: Nota Bene: Publisher's Note: From our 'Do we really have to wait until January 2027 for this book by Jake Adelstein, a young American who became one of the best, most interesting crime reporters and investigative journalists around - in Japan!, and his co-author Amy Yashida Plambeck and bears the title"Code Blue: A serial Killer, the cover-up and a three generational quest for justice."..."As Jake Adelstein tells us in the release about the book: "This is the story of serial killings in a college town, the cover-up that followed, and the devastating ripple effects of a crime that went unpunished. It's a story of grieving families, courtroom battles, law enforcement agencies that fumbled the case, and whistleblowers who should have been heroes but were treated like criminals. At the center of it all: the pathologist who opened the investigation — and asked his son to finish it. " The father is a hospital. pathologist named Eddie Adelstein. Guess who the son is! HL.

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Strange things were happening at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital. Patients who should have gone home were never making it out. In Ward 4 East, the loudspeakers kept crackling with an announcement that told the staff someone was about to die: Code Blue.  When staff raised concerns, administrators found a suspect — a nurse. They moved fast. But they didn't call the police. Instead, they went after the people trying to tell the truth. The nurse moved on to new jobs. Death followed." -------------------------------------------- POST: "Code Blue: A serial Killer, the cover-up and a three generational quest for justice, " by Jake  Adelstein and co-author Amy Yashida  Plambeck,  published on August 3, 2026.  (Joshua Lawrence "Jake" Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American[1]journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, which inspired the 2022 Max original streaming television series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort as Adelstein....Amy Yoshida-Plambeck is a freelance reporter, editor, and data journalist based in Tokyo, Japan.Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Adelstein SUB-HEADING: "In 1992, my father, Dr. Edward Adelstein uncovered a nurse killing patients at the Truman VA Hospital in my hometown. But when he raised the alarm, the VA tried to cover it up...and things got worse. GIST: How many veterans can you kill in the US and walk way free? At least 40. You just need to murder them in a VA hospital. In the summer of 1992, patients at a veterans' hospital in mid-Missouri began dying under suspicious circumstances — and the institution meant to protect them was too busy protecting itself. The man who opened the investigation was the hospital's pathologist and, that summer, its acting chief of staff: my father, Eddie Adelstein. Three decades later, I went home to Missouri to try and finish the case he never stopped fighting for. Strange things were happening at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital. Patients who should have gone home were never making it out. In Ward 4 East, the loudspeakers kept crackling with an announcement that told the staff someone was about to die: Code Blue. When staff raised concerns, administrators found a suspect — a nurse. They moved fast. But they didn't call the police. Instead, they went after the people trying to tell the truth. The nurse moved on to new jobs. Death followed. This is the story of serial killings in a college town, the cover-up that followed, and the devastating ripple effects of a crime that went unpunished.  It's a story of grieving families, courtroom battles, law enforcement agencies that fumbled the case, and whistleblowers who should have been heroes but were treated like criminals. At the center of it all: the pathologist who opened the investigation — and asked his son to finish it. The award-winning Campside Media podcast, NIGHT SHIFT was just the start. Expanded and updated from the French edition CODE BLEU (Marchialy) I'm the author of Tokyo Vice, and for the first time in thirty years, I went home to Columbia, Missouri. Together with my daughter, Beni, and my co-writer, Amy Yoshida-Plambeck, we're turning up the heat on a very cold case in a quest for real justice."" Coming in February of 2027. Pre-order now from Scribe Publications. The entire post can be read at:  code-blue-a-serial-killer-the-cover PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog. FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."Lawyer Radha Natarajan: Executive Director: New England Innocence Project; FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true;