2015 was a big year for television. We not only get new epic seasons and we were left in suspense (like the end of Game of Thrones or the season finale of Agents of SHIELD and House of Cards , for example), but there were many surprises, new series that caught us immediately.
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It is not easy to make a new series, and that this will become a cult hit with millions of viewers each week. Not everyone is lucky to The Walking Dead , whose fans had to endure a second season almost unbearable before they become the masterpiece it is today. Or the fate of Fargo , for they have a repurchase of big stars (between actors, writers and directors) it was almost impossible to do something wrong.
In 2015 came several new series that left us with a smile on his face (or an expression of surprise, at least). We also had our bitter pills, but overall it has been a great year for television series starring as Narcos , Wayward Pines , Mr. Robot and Better Call Saul , or those great series that surprised us and left wanting more:
Jessica Jones (and Daredevil )
Many would say that the product “Marvel + Superheroes” is being exploited to greatly exaggerated levels in the movies, and they may be right (even partially, and so we enjoy those movies), but the reality is this has nothing to do with the series and Marvel have released Netflix together.
Daredevil and Jessica Jones were led to believe would be two sets of ordinary superheroes, the style of the Marvel movies (“good” against “bad” and save the “innocent” and helpless), but it is not . The first was a blow, literally, to the way in which Marvel makes movies and TV. It has violence, it has blood (lots) and is a very “human” superhero who simply feel a need to protect your city (and takes a lot of punches so).
And the second was the biggest surprise all, even the year (in my personal opinion). It is a series where the hero he wants to overcome their traumas of the past, not save the world, and has the “best” and most unhealthy villain I’ve ever seen in a series or movie superheroes. How are you need more series.
Ash vs Evil Dead
Ash vs Evil Dead is one of those series that are not very seriously and therefore succeed. The plot is continuation of the story of Ash in the movie Evil Dead , that premiered in the 1980s, and although I thought it would be another failed attempt to revive a franchise that should have stayed dead, turned be wonderful. . A bloody and stupid wonder
The series has everything you would expect something of its kind: In liters of fake blood, monsters, horrible things, a man who has his hand instead of a chainsaw, heads They exploit and ghosts that are so false that what they give is laughter. He is a master merge.
Bloodline
Bloodline is a series of pure suspense (or Thriller ), the kind that leave us open-mouthed at the end of each episode, either because they make a startling revelation or because they leave us in suspense wanting to see the next episode to find out what has happened. Few series this year have kept the drama and mystery for a season like this.
The series is based on the history of the Rayburn family, after several years, he received back to one of its members, brother and black sheep of the family. With it comes a flood of problems and crimes, Reeling and fight the whole family. Of course, all this is related to a “dark past” that have good Rayburn and many mysteries than we will know during his first season.
Marvel’s Agent Carter
Returning to the ranks of Marvel, Agent Carter can not be as violent or explicit and intense as the series of Netflix, but it has something that makes it unique and special: a hero very strong, you do not need anyone’s help and using the classic espionage to achieve its mission and as the founder of one of the security agencies and intelligence best known in the world.
O good at least in the world of fiction and comics from Marvel. Peggy Carter is the founder of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the series takes place after the events of the first film of Captain America, so if you’re a fan of Marvel films, is another unforgettable story featuring one of the strongest female characters that exist today in the television.
The Man in the High Castle
Sometimes when we learn that someone will make a film adaptation or a television literary, we put us on the defensive. The first idea that comes to us is that “never be as good as the book,” and in most cases it is. But that does not mean they have great height and adaptations of the novel, even when we talk about a letter written by Philip K. Dick work. And The Man in the High Castle is one of these
The series is based on a premise. What if the Axis had won World War II, not the Allies? History tells us the answer ahead a few years in the future after the war, and developing a US version divided in half, one part under the control of Japan and the other under the control of Nazi Germany. It is one of the surprises of the year because adaptation is superb, and shows the details of the rawest form of this universe created by Philip K. Dick
Honorable mention:. The Leftovers
is true, The Leftovers is not a series for everyone. Its premise is so strange and confusing that we can clearly see how the ratings viewing were declining episode after episode, and the second season was seen by approximately half of people who watched the first season. But this year the number was so great that the only thing I think about is what they have lost the left.
Although not a “new series” as such, the second season shined so much that deserves be featured as part of the best I saw this TV during 2015. This season was more of the same, but better, more intense, more mysteries, more scenes that leave you with your mouth open, most of those moments and episodes you left with a feeling of heaviness and do not understand why, poor Kevin Garvey suffered much and only got a few answers. Each episode was masterful, and fortunately HBO has confirmed that the series created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta return for a third and final season, we will answer all our questions (or not).
Bonus Minority Report
The number of Minority Report enters our list for being another great surprise, but not for good but for evil. It is one of those series that should have stayed dead, that we think would be bad but not as bad. So much so that even though Fox had originally ordered 13 episodes for its first season, fell to 10 and said something like “look, no, better leave it here.” So do not waste your time with this, and instead begin to see (even if you did not) any of the other series that surprised us in this 2015.
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City México.- The Federal Telecommunications Institute (Ifetel) recalled that at 00:00 hours on December 31 analog signals ready to transition to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) will go out, so asked the public informed and prepare.
Highlighting in his Twitter account the benefits of digital television, the regulator states that in case of having an analog TV, you need to connect a decoder and an antenna.
The day before, the Ifetel solved the cessation of analog broadcasting this December 31 in 34 seasons and two additional teams from different locations in seven states, with so far the digital transition is achieved for 95 percent of the Mexican population.
He explained that it contributes to one of the aims of the constitutional reform of telecommunications, and this Thursday 31 shall be released hundred percent band of 700 megahertz.
The clearance of the band 700 Mhz is also known as the “digital dividend”, because thanks to the conclusion analog signal transmissions of broadcast television, a set of frequencies are available for the deployment of mobile communications services.
The project of the Shared Networking federal government, will enable broadband services and the Internet at lower prices and higher quality, use at least 90 Mhz of spectrum in this band.
The Ifetel also reported to be issue the Programme for the case of low-power stations with permits and related equipment, which at December 31, 2015 do not carry digital television broadcasting.
This, for the population continues to receive this public service of general interest, while the licensees start with digital transmissions in the respective areas.
In this context he received warnings that 20 stations corresponding to 10 reduced their television licensees ERP, to frame policy in this course, so continue to make analog broadcasts.
Also, 477 low-power stations or stations additional equipment in various entities will continue to broadcast in analog format, as set out in the reform of the Federal Telecommunications Act and Broadcasting, published in the Official Journal on 18 December.
It is noteworthy that nearly 500 stations represent just over 1.0 percent of the population receiving broadcast television signals, as its primary coverage area is located in remote, scattered and sparsely populated areas.
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MEXICO CITY (29 / DIC / 2015) .- The Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) modified the guidelines ” must carry ” which forces companies TV pay to broadcast television signals so open free for the first privilege local content where there is duplication of signals.
‘It is considered that the hearings They will be directly benefited by the proposed order and relationship the retransmission of a local landmark which can be privileged be more consistent and related to their interests, tastes and needs, and therefore, the next signal in the proposed order would be that if While not belonging to the same location, yes it is the same federal entity. Not to give any of these assumptions will be indistinct may retransmit the signal, ” explains the adjuster document published in the Official Gazette (DOF) .
guidelines require systems to broadcast pay TV the signals of the channels 2, 5, 7 and 13, but, given the existence of local signals, businesses TV should include restricted signal coverage area.
Changes to the guidelines state that ” when there is evidence to double substantially dealer Terrestrial Television Networks you must first relay the signal to be duplicated radiodifunda from any location that is in the same area geographical ‘coverage’.
If no duplicate signal radiodifunda from any location that is in the same area geographical coverage, broadcast television should pay some duplicate signal being broadcast from any location that is in the same state and whose coverage area comprising at least partially the same location.
” If none of the above two cases is updated, you can retransmit any duplicate signals are broadcast in the same geographical area ‘coverage’, says the IFT.
On the other hand, mentions that television companies have three months to retransmit broadcast television signals after they begin to operate.
With the end of the year it’s time to make stock of what has meant the 2015 in the different fields of information. In the area of television is really difficult to develop lists of the best or the worst, either series, programs, moments … It is both the material that leaves every day the small screen ever will produce a list to everyone’s taste.
We believe it is easier to agree on those spaces or television moments that should not be repeated in 2016 for whatever reasons: either because they vergüencica others, because they were not up to expectations, because once it occurs simply because there were no grace …
So we made A list of the worst that leaves us in this 2015 television . Sure there will be the same things regrettable that we include in our list or even more, but … it does not’d save anything mentioned?
interruptus Grapes South Channel
Poor Andalusian! Waiting all year to celebrate the New Year with the traditional bells and grapes and South Canal, the Andalusian regional television, and go to advertising Piran amid the chimes. Something that can not be repeated again … but we must recognize that we lay a laugh in social networks.
Alatriste, Rabia and Peace Here
From then 2015 was not a particularly happy for Mediaset as far as concerns series premieres year. There are few that premiered this year and have been renovated. This is because some of these projects are really unfortunate, especially Alatriste , Rage and Gloria peace here and then . Three sets of very low quality. Luckily, by 2016, in Mediaset they have done their homework and are preparing authentic seriones as The Truth, I know who you or last season Prince and ninth of The looming .
Mayweather- Pacquiao Fight
They called it the “fight of the century”, one of the most anticipated events of the recent television history. An evening of boxing would be in who knows how many hundreds of countries, moved not know how many millions of euros and then was a real fiasco and very boring. Furthermore, in Spain there were enough problems to continue with guarantees combat since the platform servers that had the broadcasting rights were saturated.
musical programs and competitions of the 1
In TVE should take the doors of The Ministry of Time and travel XXI century in some respects; especially in the area of entertainment. It is as if the public broadcaster they were anchored in the 90 and most premiere programs were new versions that were issued at that time. Hence they have failed most of his musical talent shows or contests. TVE has been stamped with programs like Red Carpet Palace , Unbeatable , We are at home … and these have to unite to others failed in 2014 same reason. In 2016, you can not keep doing television as in 1996.
Realities at half or crappy
Reality show is not synonymous with telebasura , though some pretend so. Reality TV is a television genre as respectable as any other, with millions of followers and spectacular profits generated by the networks. That, of course, when we speak of formats are fine, not shoddy, cutreces or half measures. In this 2015 we have seen Antena 3 explored, again, the terrain reality show with Married at First Sight , a format with a starting idea very interesting but requires more daring by the chain and more mired, replenish it and, above all, support more grid spaces dedicated to reality. Will have a second season to be released in 2016 … we’ll see how it turns out.
The other example of what should not be next year in this regard is Passport to the Island . What is sold as a low-cost reality for summer survival it was actually the history cheesy reality. It was lousy audience and we believe that Telecinco have learned the lesson.
Chicote, hunted
It is the first time it happens it will not be the last in formats such things are like that, but not we have to overlook being lied to your face. Antena 3 premiered this year, two Restaurants documentaries Alberto Chicote as a reporter. The Price of Food was called and he saw that Chicote reviewing the price differences in different parts of the world in staples such as rice. Chicote saw how the airport embarked towards Asian, African countries … But actually, as it was known then, Alberto Chicote was not in all these countries, but the images were ordered reporters freelance and then Alberto Chicote was who put his voice on the final assembly. I must say that the chef took orders and therefore is not your fault … But badly by Antena 3 this deception to your audience.
The Brink
There will be worst series worldwide and, without going further, in the US. But bearing the signature of HBO is to not believe it. We are talking about the political comedy The Brink , starring two real stars of Hollywood, Tim Robbins and Jack Black . It was absurd without any grace and also banalizaba issues such as terrorism with which they ought not to joke.
The series got mediocre results of hearing in his first season was renewed for a second delivery. But someone at HBO should sit and think for a minute that finally pulled back the string renewal and definitively canceled.
The galas
They are the worst and come in all colors. Of television galas can say something similar to what we noted with the entertainment programs of the 1: is a product of two decades television ago (maybe that’s why there are so many in TVE). Usually no good harvest hearings are recorded and practically all the chains do the same. Please someone invent a new format to entertain the spectators at Christmas and are left to reproduce the pattern Party Night .
The Full Federal Institute of Technology (Ifetel) determined the conclusion of analog broadcasts in the coverage areas of different seasons TV broadcast in various locations in 19 states.
In the Official Gazette, the agency states that the concessionaires and permit holders will be required to make all the investments and facilities needed to travel to Digital Terrestrial Television later than December 31, 2015.
Remember your obligation to complete the transmission of analog television signals broadcast once a level of penetration will reach 90 percent of poor households resources, the coverage area of these signals with receivers or decoders capable of receiving digital television broadcast signals.
In this way, the determined termination Ifetel analog broadcasts coverage areas of different seasons television broadcast serving in Ensenada, Baja California; La Paz, Baja California Sur; Campeche and Ciudad del Carmen Escárcega, Campeche and Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad Jiménez, Wood and Chihuahua City, Chihuahua.
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Also, Armory, Colima, Socorro Island, Manzanillo and Tecoman, Colima; Acapulco, Chilpancingo, Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo, Guerrero; Pachuca, Hidalgo; Jiquilpan and Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan; Peñitas and Tepic, Nayarit; San Miguel Tlacotepec and Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca, and Zacatlán Tehuacan, Puebla
Also in Cozumel, Quintana Roo.; Bacanora, Hermosillo, Magdalena de Kino, and Santa Ana Navojoa, Sonora; Frontera and La Venta, Tabasco; Ciudad Mante, Ciudad Victoria, La Rosita and Villagrán, Soto la Marina, and Tampico, Tamaulipas; Apizaco Huamantla and Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala; Cerro Azul, Las Lajas, Xalapa, Mecayapan, Perote, Veracruz, and Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz; Merida and Valladolid, Yucatan, and Temascaltepec, State of Mexico
It is never synonymous with quality, but the meter next to pirate downloads a series is usually a good indication of its popularity. In this regard, Game of Thrones has won this dubious honor for 4 consecutive years. It has done a considerable distance, also the second in the table. The Walking Dead
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In May, Game of Thrones beat all records for piracy with shared chapter in less time: about 2.2 million times just 12 hours after issuance. This is the complete list:
Game of Thrones . 14,400,000 downloads
The Walking Dead. 6,900,000 downloads
The Big Bang Theory : 4.400.00 downloads.
Arrow. 3,900,000 downloads
The Flash : 3.600.00 downloads
Mr Robot:.. 3,500,000 downloads
Vikings : 3,300,000 downloads
Supergirl : 3,000,000 downloads
The Blacklist . 2,900,000 downloads
Suits : 2,600,000 downloads
In the case of Game of Thrones , more than half of the discharges occurred in the week after its release and the total number of viewers exceeds States States, but not all cases
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The Walking Dead for example it continues to be more in the traditional way that BitTorrent but others like Mr. Robot nearly tripled its audience via pirate, a good sign that are popular beyond the cast of American chains. Data were extracted by TorrentFreak based on public listings that offer many trackers of torrents and their own estimates. [Via TorrentFreak]
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Ecuavisa last October concluded the recording two of his plays ‘ The Yellow Combo ‘and’ So it is ‘, which will continue until early chapters premiering in 2016, when small screen is definitely say goodbye to the . The changes, explains the chain through a statement, obey a commitment to search for fresh proposals.
Teleamazonas is pending the release of ‘Nina’, the new comedy David Reinoso and Flor María Palomeque . Where appropriate, the air outlet of programs like ‘Alive’ and ‘The Happy Couple’ was determined by penalties of the Superintendency of Information and Communications because of alleged discriminatory content, regulated by the Communication Law .
With the air outlet ‘My enclosure’, amid similar controversies, TC gave way to ‘Children of Don Juan’, another national comedy in early December that celebrated its 100 chapters.
In this scenario a reduction of revenue ads adds in the Channels TV . The channels had sales of $ 220 million in 2013, an amount that was reduced to USD 211 million in 2014 to close the year with revenue of about USD 190 million, according to figures from the Association of Private Television Channels.
Although the environment for audiovisual production is not the best, the progressive implementation of the Communication Law provides that in the third year Effective, 60% of television programming must be designed to Ecuadorian programs.
Jonathan Estrada, who plays Guamán in ‘ The Yellow Combo, “says the program , reaching 700 chapters in six seasons , never lost acceptance. “Last season we recorded 7 to 9 rating points. But in this sixth season we have between 14 and 15 points, “said the actor, who after nearly seven years in the cast says his character changed his life and catapulted him as a TV host.
Ecuavisa expected to reissue a new season of ‘Three families’ and expects to start producing another Comedy , still in the planning stages. The productions begin their recordings in January 2016, and “with the participation of most actors and belonging” to the channel, said the chain.
In the Estrada vision, ‘The Combo …’ changed the imprint of the prevailing mood in the TV over the last decade, marking distance with the racism and regionalism . “Ours is an absurd humor, with his mischief as any comedy, but trying not to be so obvious. So I allowed us to reach even the children, something that in the beginning not imagine, “he said.
In 2016, the rethinking of television proposals will be aimed almost necessarily in that approach.
‘Nina’, for example, David Reinoso put aside the roguish and parodic style, to raise a number with a “most innocent and familiar” humor. Teleamazonas concluded the recording of the first 60 chapters of the serial, which is still awaiting a release date.
In the program, comedian Guayaquil plays a family father who is disguised as housekeeper to infiltrate as ‘domestic employee’ in the house of his ex-wife, to be near his two sons and regain their double . “We are hoping that ‘Nina’ airs continue to evaluate whether an extension of this series or go with another project,” said Reinoso.
But while rethinking channels offering domestic production telenovela There is no longer dominated by international production. A traditional Mexican and Brazilian productions, this year as Gama TV channels and have opted for Ecuavisa actors, themes and different styles with the premiere of the Taiwanese novel ‘The brave wife’ and Turkish novels as’ The Arabian Nights’ or ‘ Fatmagül ‘, in addition to Colombian’ Celia ‘and’ Niche ‘CT.
The green-eyed told little known details before venturing into acting and consolidated. He almost to his promise to be cured.
He recalled that when he was young religious vocation and had always wanted to be a priest.
“ I was about to be cured, it would make my promise, was 17. I realized I wanted to have a family and gave up, “said the former driver of Combat.
Gian Piero Diaz studied marketing and was the manager of a clothing store in a mall. That made his first flirtation with television.
“We trade with Campaneando, he wore clothes Bruno Pinasco and Gian Marco (drivers program). Never thought of venturing into television, until the manager of that program told me to audition for a soap opera, there it all began. “he said.
THOUGHT IT WAS GAY
His first telenovela was “Revelation” which starred Salvador del Solar. After “Mischief Heart” production that was seen in Mexico, where he traveled to act in TV Azteca.
“I acted with Angelica Aragon and Ana de la Reguera. He had a group of foreigners who came to the school talent, the girls found out that one was gay, “
he said.
“ Among boys were Venezuelans, Colombians, high, clear eyes and good looking. I was the lowest and thought he was gay, then cleared all . It was a funny story, I was 22 and spent three years working there, “he added.
After a long career in television, Bill Proctor could have spent his retirement out of public and media attention. Instead, he has been trying to track down a murderer.
His 40-year career in the news. His colleagues at WXYZ-TV, a television station ABC afialiada in Detroit, Michigan, and were collecting their “greatest hits” on a reel, with the idea that no more would come.
Then he rang Proctor phone. The voice of a strange woman said she had information about a murder.
In the mid 1990s, a woman identified as “Amanda” to keep his name confidential, was addicted to crack and West lived in Detroit.
One night, in which was very drugged, a man described as an occasional boyfriend left her apartment to go buy more drugs from a dealer in the building. When he returned, he told Proctor, his hands and jacket were covered with blood.
Image copyright Iain Maitland Image caption The apartment building where Christina Brown was murdered.
“I think I killed her” , reminded him that he had said.
Amanda said her boyfriend forced her to collect some things and flee to a house he shared with his brother a few blocks away.
For weeks, as reported, threatened and not out of sight. When it became clear that the police was not looking, she began to relax and she managed to escape.
The police had arrested a different man, as he knew them many years later.
Proctor listened intently. It was a crazy story, told almost two decades later by a woman who admitted he was in an altered by drugs at the time state. But she had been trying to get someone to listen for years, he said, and had even gone in person to the police in 2012 to present an official report. But nothing happened
The woman told Proctor full name of the groom, and then said something that turned his stomach. “You were the journalist investigation into the case,” he said <. /> p>
“You were the journalist”
In the last years of his career at WXYZ, Proctor went from being a reporter chronicling the daily chaos city, a journalist recognized research, publishing stories ever knocked a judge and a police chief of Detroit.
During his career he became deeply skeptical of the criminal justice system to the point who founded a non-profit to help victims with wrong sentences.
But now, if Amanda deserved credibility was Proctor who reported the story terribly wrong.
I it was another journalist’s walk from story to story “
Bill Proctor
After hanging up, Proctor, 67, addressed files on your television. pulled a dusty ribbon January 1996. And saw a mother torn .
“She never got into fights at school, always coming home, you know, after school, she never stayed late, until, until this …, “stammered the woman.
Then Proctor heard his own voice as he appeared the image of the young victim on the screen. The image quality was so poor that there was nothing of the girl.
“Christina Brown had apparently grown very fast,” said the young Proctor in the report. “ His mother says she never suspected that her 12 year old daughter was selling drugs on the street .”
Image copyright Courtesy Monson Family Image caption LaMarr Monson with his mother Delores.
The tape you refreshed memory Proctor, who was the lead reporter on the story, as in others in Detroit, the murder capital of the country, where victims were most very young times.
He just heard the body found by the police, he tried to do exclusively with the family and then published the story in dramatic and without any attachment terms.
Then he moved on.
“In the 1990s, when the murder rate skyrocketed and many people ended up dead were in the drug business, this was just a Horrible element of what was happening around us all the time, “says Brown’s murder.
” I saw this as something special. “
The strange confession LaMarr Monson
The last chapter of the history of Brown showed a few seconds of the appearance of LaMarr Monson, a 23-year-old drug dealer who was immediately indicted for having given the police a false name.
Finally, he was convicted and sentenced to between 30 and 50 years in prison.
Image copyright Iain Maitland Image caption Bill Proctor and Walter Swift became very close friends.
On the tape, Proctor Monson described as a man who walked the young Brown of his family, who may have had a sexual relationship with her, and “stolen his innocence and finally his life. “
” There was a confession, so that police investigators had a pretty good idea of why it happened this mortal assault, “said Proctor closing your note.
Something in the old video footage made him sit up and take notice. Was the homicide detective who interviewed. Ghougoian a woman named Joan, who appears briefly, telling Proctor. “The cause of death was the result of multiple stab wounds”
Anyone familiar with the turbulent history of the police department Detroit knows Ghougoian name.
A history that includes 11 years of federal supervision after the Department of Justice United States found that Detroit police was shooting and killing more civilians than any other agency in the country, regularly violating the constitutional rights of suspects.
Less than a year after he gave that interview to Proctor, Ghougoian she starred in the headlines. He was removed from his high office, having been among the first women to run a major homicide unit in the country.
His superiors discovered that she had coerced innocent men to give illegal confessions and then he forced his subordinates to conceal . He was involved in half a dozen forced confessions.
Ghougoian denied the charges and retired from the police in 1999.
Image copyright Michigan Department of Corrections Image caption Temujin Kensu also known as Frederick Freeman.
As soon as Proctor saw Ghougoian on the tape began to suspect his own report on the confession of Monson.
He began hastily preparation of a monitoring report. He interviewed witnesses, tracked down the mother of Monson and called the same Monson to his prison on the outskirts of Detroit.
By the end, he had convinced Monson was innocent, but his editors at WXYZ. They were not interested in monitoring.
Proctor was devastated. Now saw history as a stain on his impeccable record of 33 years in journalism .
When your day of retreat came, Proctor signed, packed his plates and Emmy awards, and He went to his modest house in a suburb of Detroit.
That was two years ago.
Since then, he has been in a constant research has led him to search the entire country man who believes he is the real murderer.
“ This case is an attempt to claim ” says Proctor.
“I have to feel that I corrected a very sad mistake of justice. “
had been one of them
Proctor was not always the kind of reporter who rushed to condemn the police.
He was one of them.
In the early seventies, was agent Proctor Federal Protective Service, the armed forces and uniformed security responsible for federal lands and buildings in his hometown, Washington DC.
I feel that I corrected a very sad mistake of justice
Bill Proctor
With that he worked it paid for his education and said the daughter she had at 18.
During the day faced with activists opposed the Vietnam War and in the evening sat with those same students in classes at the University of Maryland .
It is obsessed with becoming a TV reporter after meeting Hal Walker, the first black reporter on CBS.
Proctor moved in the television market, from Virginia, passing through Kansas City and Pittsburgh, until he came to Detroit.
And it evolved: being a cocky young presenter became an experienced handled with ease under pressure Reporter
became known as “Dr”
His experience in the world of law enforcement was very well known.
A revealing case
In 1995, while still covered special assignments for the channel, Proctor was approached by a grizzled private investigator.
Image caption Moran and his students at the Innocence Clinic Michigan.
The bride had hired a man named Frederick Freeman, who was serving a life sentence for murder.
The investigator was convinced Freeman, who now leads the Buddhist name Temujin Kensu was innocent , but could find who would listen.
Kensu was convicted of killing with a single shotgun blast to a young man 20, who he was the son of the mayor of a small town.
He was sentenced although several people testified that he was about 640 kilometers from the crime scene .
Proctor was captivated. He investigated the case for a year. The results of their research turned into a night five-part series that aired on WXYZ.
Got the key prosecution witness who recanted in front of the camera.
“I woke up,” Proctor said about the case. “I was just another journalist’s walk from story to story and the only chance I played running was when there was a fire, that was when I had to get there before it went out.”
The story attracted attention of national media and solidarity of many politicians and judges.
In 2010, a federal judge granted a Kensu a new trial, but the decision was later overturned by a judge an appeals court in 2012 .
Prosecutors said the evidence against Kensu was compelling and that their witnesses had more validity.
Proctor continued to visit Kensu in prison until today.
The case of Kensu transformed Proctor.
innocent Release
The journalist founded an organization without profit organization called Proving Innocence, connecting researchers prisoners not charged with demonstrating strong case for his innocence.
Image copyright Michigan Innocence Clinic Image caption This picture is part of the evidence of the place where she was killed Christina Brown.
Proctor decided she needed to become a licensed private investigator.
The case also caused Kensu contacted David Moran, pending a public exdefensor appeals he wanted to create a center to handle erroneous judgments.
Moran was interested in cases like Kensu that allowed him to focus on important factors such as the misconduct of a prosecutor, mistakes made by forensic scientists, forced confessions and actions ineffective counsel.
Proctor facilitated a series of meetings between Moran and Bridget McCormack, then dean of clinical law at the University of Michigan and now a judge of the Supreme Court of Michigan.
Both ended up forming Innocence Clinic Michigan.
Since its inception in 2009, Moran and his students have had 30 cases, including that of Kensu and have released 11 men and women condemned unfairly.
Image caption The second statement to the police Monson Detroit Proctor believes that includes a false confession.
Proctor told Moran about the call he received from Amanda, and gave the name of her boyfriend.
Moran dug through its database of cases and found that Monson had already sent a letter requesting the help of the center in 2009, but had been stacked among many other cases marked “to investigate”.
Now, with a new theory of what really happened to Christina Brown, Moran began digging through records Monson to find evidence that Amanda was telling the truth .
The documents provide a dark and convoluted history.
“horrible death”
The body of Christina Brown was discovered January 20, 1996. His death was horrible. She had been stabbed 17 times and strangled. His jaw was broken with a blow strong enough to zafarle several teeth.
I’m finally getting my story is known. It feels good “
LaMarr Monson
The blood in his stomach indicated she had been in the ground frost abandoned house 2752 West Boston for hours struggling to breathe, surrounded by trash and dirty clothes.
Around noon that day, witnesses told police that “Mark” as it was Monson known as selling drugs, had run down the hallway of the building, knocking on doors and asking someone to call 911.
When the paramedics arrived, Brown did not respond. He died soon after.
The other tenants in the building, who knew Brown as “Cristal” and thought the girl 1.70 meters tall was 17, told police that Monson and Brown were selling drugs from the apartment.
Image copyright Michigan Innocence Clinic Image caption This folding knife found at the scene had no fingerprints.
Once he was taken to the police station, Monson said that although he had found the body had nothing to do with Brown’s death.
said he had spent the night of the crime in his girlfriend’s house with their daughter 7 years, history later corroborated his girlfriend.
But about 24 hours later, Monson allegedly issued and signed a detailed confession.
The document typed said he had returned to the apartment drunk in the middle of the night and he had discussed with Brown about an alleged sexual infidelity.
Monson’s confession
” Crystal attacked me with a knife in his hand, “says the statement. “I pushed her head out the window in the bathroom, breaking the glass … the knife stabbed in the neck. Crystal collapsed on the floor of the bathroom, the knife fell into the sink. I went to the apartment.”
When Moran compared the testimony of the forensic doctor’s confession Monson saw that did not match.
The stab wounds were superficial and then concluded that the murder weapon was a tank top toilet. The murderer he fractured his skull, and Monson’s confession contained no mention of the cover.
He wrote the confession after the Ghougoian exinvestigadora promised him that he could go home if he signed the statement .
“The interrogation of Monson occurred before a complete forensic analysis,” says Moran. “ The facts do not match. It’s a false confession .”
Image caption Bill Proctor in Johnstown.
There was more. A man calling himself “Raymond”, several witnesses identified as “Robert” was interviewed by police the day of the murder.
According to the report, he told an official who was staying with Amanda in the building and who regularly buy drugs to Brown.
Amanda told Robert Proctor became angry after he tried to buy crack on credit and Brown denied it.
It also found a report dwell fingerprint files. He positively identified a fingerprint on the bathroom mirror as Monson. But beneath a note saying that there were other “unidentified”.
Robert Fingerprints
After many bureaucratic laps, Proctor and Moran managed a lawyer from the Attorney Wayne County send them a report on the tracks.
The footprint left thumb coincided with Robert, the man who had drawn Amanda on the phone call.
“I was very excited,” says Proctor. “It’s just another level of claim and another reason of absolute fury that every American should have in a case like this.”
Image copyright Iain Maitland Image caption Bill Proctor case Kensu learned that in many cases have no new evidence it is sufficient for authorities to reopen a case.
“The police had their hands on the evidence he needed to do more and did not.”
Proctor says he learned of the case that Kensu even with new evidence is not enough for the authorities to re-examine a case.
That’s why the search continues for Robert.
“I really I do not care how he wants to explain, but I need you to tell me what happened when he returned to buy crack on credit to the girl, “says Proctor. “I want you to tell me what he did.”
In early autumn, Proctor made his third trip to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a seven-hour drive from Detroit.
through databases which can be accessed as a private investigator, Proctor learned that Robert had moved to a small, faded city dedicated to the steel industry. Shortly after the murder, the man went with two of his brothers there.
“I did nothing wrong”
On his first trip, Proctor came to a house where neighbors told him that Robert had moved just months before.
In his second attempt, Proctor ended in front of the brother of Robert. He called and handed the phone to Proctor.
“I did nothing wrong,” recalls Robert Proctor said.
What the Monson family has suffered, what which has suffered LaMarr should not have happened “
Bill Proctor
In his third attempt, Proctor tactics had become more sophisticated.
Through an informant, knew that Robert was ill and suggested way to intercept one of his visits to one of the hospitals in the small town.
He checked the criminal records of Robert and analyzed documents to give their addresses and phone numbers, but did not with the current.
He drove around the house with his brother hoping to see him, but had no luck.
In an effort to prepare for the time to confront Robert Proctor asked a man named Walter Swift accompany him.
26 years in prison
As Kensu, Swift had been a prisoner whose story Proctor further convinced that the criminal justice system was broken and that cases like this were never so simple as they seemed.
In 2009, Swift grabbed international headlines when he was released after spending 26 years in prison for crimes (rape and robbery) he did not commit.
Image copyright Iain Maitland Image caption A Bill Proctor started calling him “the doctor”.
DNA evidence showed the innocence of Swift and after Proctor covered his story became friends .
Proctor thought if knew Robert Swift, a charismatic man who had experienced the horrors of an unjust sentence, could be inclined to tell the truth about the murder.
But Swift is not in Johnstown. He had returned to prison for robbing a store.
When Swift received $ 2.5 million in compensation from the city of Detroit by the time he spent in prison, he and his lawyers decided Proctor appointed as the sole trustee of the funds.
Proctor had hoped to help Swift to write books and give lectures.
But after his release, Swift became drug addict. It appeared at the door of Proctor, in middle of the night, decomposed and demanding money.
Proctor says it can not abandon Swift. His plan is to beg a judge that permits Swift to boarding school in Vermont to be rehabilitated.
“I have no idea what will happen, but it will be part of my life until one day one of us dies, “Proctor said.
” We just want our child at home “
On his last day in Johnstown, the sun began to hide when Proctor was preparing to leave the city.
No progress in its search for Robert and before him is a long journey back to Detroit. It must enrumbarse soon because you might miss hearing Swift.
After a long career in television, Bill Proctor could have spent his retirement out of public and media attention. Instead, he has been trying to track down a murderer.
His 40-year career in the news. His colleagues at WXYZ-TV, a television station ABC afialiada in Detroit, Michigan, and were collecting their “greatest hits” on a reel, with the idea that no more would come.
Then he rang Proctor phone. The voice of a strange woman said she had information about a murder.
In the mid 1990s, a woman identified as “Amanda” to keep his name confidential, was addicted to crack and West lived in Detroit.
One night, in which was very drugged, a man described as an occasional boyfriend left her apartment to go buy more drugs from a dealer in the building. When he returned, he told Proctor, his hands and jacket were covered with blood.
Image copyright Iain Maitland Image caption The apartment building where Christina Brown was murdered.
“I think I killed her” , reminded him that he had said.
Amanda said her boyfriend forced her to collect some things and flee to a house he shared with his brother a few blocks away.
For weeks, as reported, threatened and not out of sight. When it became clear that the police was not looking, she began to relax and she managed to escape.
The police had arrested a different man, as he knew them many years later.
Proctor listened intently. It was a crazy story, told almost two decades later by a woman who admitted he was in an altered by drugs at the time state. But she had been trying to get someone to listen for years, he said, and had even gone in person to the police in 2012 to present an official report. But nothing happened
The woman told Proctor full name of the groom, and then said something that turned his stomach. “You were the journalist investigation into the case,” he said <. /> p>
“You were the journalist”
In the last years of his career at WXYZ, Proctor went from being a reporter chronicling the daily chaos city, a journalist recognized research, publishing stories ever knocked a judge and a police chief of Detroit.
During his career he became deeply skeptical of the criminal justice system to the point who founded a non-profit to help victims with wrong sentences.
But now, if Amanda deserved credibility was Proctor who reported the story terribly wrong.
I it was another journalist’s walk from story to story “
Bill Proctor
After hanging up, Proctor, 67, addressed files on your television. pulled a dusty ribbon January 1996. And saw a mother torn .
“She never got into fights at school, always coming home, you know, after school, she never stayed late, until, until this …, “stammered the woman.
Then Proctor heard his own voice as he appeared the image of the young victim on the screen. The image quality was so poor that there was nothing of the girl.
“Christina Brown had apparently grown very fast,” said the young Proctor in the report. “ His mother says she never suspected that her 12 year old daughter was selling drugs on the street .”
Image copyright Courtesy Monson Family Image caption LaMarr Monson with his mother Delores.
The tape you refreshed memory Proctor, who was the lead reporter on the story, as in others in Detroit, the murder capital of the country, where victims were most very young times.
He just heard the body found by the police, he tried to do exclusively with the family and then published the story in dramatic and without any attachment terms.
Then he moved on.
“In the 1990s, when the murder rate skyrocketed and many people ended up dead were in the drug business, this was just a Horrible element of what was happening around us all the time, “says Brown’s murder.
” I saw this as something special. “
The strange confession LaMarr Monson
The last chapter of the history of Brown showed a few seconds of the appearance of LaMarr Monson, a 23-year-old drug dealer who was immediately indicted for having given the police a false name.
Finally, he was convicted and sentenced to between 30 and 50 years in prison.
Image copyright Iain Maitland Image caption Bill Proctor and Walter Swift became very close friends.
On the tape, Proctor Monson described as a man who walked the young Brown of his family, who may have had a sexual relationship with her, and “stolen his innocence and finally his life. “
” There was a confession, so that police investigators had a pretty good idea of why it happened this mortal assault, “said Proctor closing your note.
Something in the old video footage made him sit up and take notice. Was the homicide detective who interviewed. Ghougoian a woman named Joan, who appears briefly, telling Proctor. “The cause of death was the result of multiple stab wounds”
Anyone familiar with the turbulent history of the police department Detroit knows Ghougoian name.
A history that includes 11 years of federal supervision after the Department of Justice United States found that Detroit police was shooting and killing more civilians than any other agency in the country, regularly violating the constitutional rights of suspects.
Less than a year after he gave that interview to Proctor, Ghougoian she starred in the headlines. He was removed from his high office, having been among the first women to run a major homicide unit in the country.
His superiors discovered that she had coerced innocent men to give illegal confessions and then he forced his subordinates to conceal . He was involved in half a dozen forced confessions.
Ghougoian denied the charges and retired from the police in 1999.
Image copyright Michigan Department of Corrections Image caption Temujin Kensu also known as Frederick Freeman.
As soon as Proctor saw Ghougoian on the tape began to suspect his own report on the confession of Monson.
He began hastily preparation of a monitoring report. He interviewed witnesses, tracked down the mother of Monson and called the same Monson to his prison on the outskirts of Detroit.
By the end, he had convinced Monson was innocent, but his editors at WXYZ. They were not interested in monitoring.
Proctor was devastated. Now saw history as a stain on his impeccable record of 33 years in journalism .
When your day of retreat came, Proctor signed, packed his plates and Emmy awards, and He went to his modest house in a suburb of Detroit.
That was two years ago.
Since then, he has been in a constant research has led him to search the entire country man who believes he is the real murderer.
“ This case is an attempt to claim ” says Proctor.
“I have to feel that I corrected a very sad mistake of justice. “
had been one of them
Proctor was not always the kind of reporter who rushed to condemn the police.
He was one of them.
In the early seventies, was agent Proctor Federal Protective Service, the armed forces and uniformed security responsible for federal lands and buildings in his hometown, Washington DC.
I feel that I corrected a very sad mistake of justice
Bill Proctor
With that he worked it paid for his education and said the daughter she had at 18.
During the day faced with activists opposed the Vietnam War and in the evening sat with those same students in classes at the University of Maryland .
It is obsessed with becoming a TV reporter after meeting Hal Walker, the first black reporter on CBS.
Proctor moved in the television market, from Virginia, passing through Kansas City and Pittsburgh, until he came to Detroit.
And it evolved: being a cocky young presenter became an experienced handled with ease under pressure Reporter
became known as “Dr”
His experience in the world of law enforcement was very well known.
A revealing case
In 1995, while still covered special assignments for the channel, Proctor was approached by a grizzled private investigator.
Image caption Moran and his students at the Innocence Clinic Michigan.
The bride had hired a man named Frederick Freeman, who was serving a life sentence for murder.
The investigator was convinced Freeman, who now leads the Buddhist name Temujin Kensu was innocent , but could find who would listen.
Kensu was convicted of killing with a single shotgun blast to a young man 20, who he was the son of the mayor of a small town.
He was sentenced although several people testified that he was about 640 kilometers from the crime scene .
Proctor was captivated. He investigated the case for a year. The results of their research turned into a night five-part series that aired on WXYZ.
Got the key prosecution witness who recanted in front of the camera.
“I woke up,” Proctor said about the case. “I was just another journalist’s walk from story to story and the only chance I played running was when there was a fire, that was when I had to get there before it went out.”
The story attracted attention of national media and solidarity of many politicians and judges.
In 2010, a federal judge granted a Kensu a new trial, but the decision was later overturned by a judge an appeals court in 2012 .
Prosecutors said the evidence against Kensu was compelling and that their witnesses had more validity.
Proctor continued to visit Kensu in prison until today.
The case of Kensu transformed Proctor.
innocent Release
The journalist founded an organization without profit organization called Proving Innocence, connecting researchers prisoners not charged with demonstrating strong case for his innocence.
Image copyright Michigan Innocence Clinic Image caption This picture is part of the evidence of the place where she was killed Christina Brown.
Proctor decided she needed to become a licensed private investigator.
The case also caused Kensu contacted David Moran, pending a public exdefensor appeals he wanted to create a center to handle erroneous judgments.
Moran was interested in cases like Kensu that allowed him to focus on important factors such as the misconduct of a prosecutor, mistakes made by forensic scientists, forced confessions and actions ineffective counsel.
Proctor facilitated a series of meetings between Moran and Bridget McCormack, then dean of clinical law at the University of Michigan and now a judge of the Supreme Court of Michigan.
Both ended up forming Innocence Clinic Michigan.
Since its inception in 2009, Moran and his students have had 30 cases, including that of Kensu and have released 11 men and women condemned unfairly.
Image caption The second statement to the police Monson Detroit Proctor believes that includes a false confession.
Proctor told Moran about the call he received from Amanda, and gave the name of her boyfriend.
Moran dug through its database of cases and found that Monson had already sent a letter requesting the help of the center in 2009, but had been stacked among many other cases marked “to investigate”.
Now, with a new theory of what really happened to Christina Brown, Moran began digging through records Monson to find evidence that Amanda was telling the truth .
The documents provide a dark and convoluted history.
“horrible death”
The body of Christina Brown was discovered January 20, 1996. His death was horrible. She had been stabbed 17 times and strangled. His jaw was broken with a blow strong enough to zafarle several teeth.
I’m finally getting my story is known. It feels good “
LaMarr Monson
The blood in his stomach indicated she had been in the ground frost abandoned house 2752 West Boston for hours struggling to breathe, surrounded by trash and dirty clothes.
Around noon that day, witnesses told police that “Mark” as it was Monson known as selling drugs, had run down the hallway of the building, knocking on doors and asking someone to call 911.
When the paramedics arrived, Brown did not respond. He died soon after.
The other tenants in the building, who knew Brown as “Cristal” and thought the girl 1.70 meters tall was 17, told police that Monson and Brown were selling drugs from the apartment.
Image copyright Michigan Innocence Clinic Image caption This folding knife found at the scene had no fingerprints.
Once he was taken to the police station, Monson said that although he had found the body had nothing to do with Brown’s death.
said he had spent the night of the crime in his girlfriend’s house with their daughter 7 years, history later corroborated his girlfriend.
But about 24 hours later, Monson allegedly issued and signed a detailed confession.
The document typed said he had returned to the apartment drunk in the middle of the night and he had discussed with Brown about an alleged sexual infidelity.
Monson’s confession
” Crystal attacked me with a knife in his hand, “says the statement. “I pushed her head out the window in the bathroom, breaking the glass … the knife stabbed in the neck. Crystal collapsed on the floor of the bathroom, the knife fell into the sink. I went to the apartment.”
When Moran compared the testimony of the forensic doctor’s confession Monson saw that did not match.
The stab wounds were superficial and then concluded that the murder weapon was a tank top toilet. The murderer he fractured his skull, and Monson’s confession contained no mention of the cover.
He wrote the confession after the Ghougoian exinvestigadora promised him that he could go home if he signed the statement .
“The interrogation of Monson occurred before a complete forensic analysis,” says Moran. “ The facts do not match. It’s a false confession .”
Image caption Bill Proctor in Johnstown.
There was more. A man calling himself “Raymond”, several witnesses identified as “Robert” was interviewed by police the day of the murder.
According to the report, he told an official who was staying with Amanda in the building and who regularly buy drugs to Brown.
Amanda told Robert Proctor became angry after he tried to buy crack on credit and Brown denied it.
It also found a report dwell fingerprint files. He positively identified a fingerprint on the bathroom mirror as Monson. But beneath a note saying that there were other “unidentified”.
Robert Fingerprints
After many bureaucratic laps, Proctor and Moran managed a lawyer from the Attorney Wayne County send them a report on the tracks.
The footprint left thumb coincided with Robert, the man who had drawn Amanda on the phone call.
“I was very excited,” says Proctor. “It’s just another level of claim and another reason of absolute fury that every American should have in a case like this.”
Image copyright Iain Maitland Image caption Bill Proctor case Kensu learned that in many cases have no new evidence it is sufficient for authorities to reopen a case.
“The police had their hands on the evidence he needed to do more and did not.”
Proctor says he learned of the case that Kensu even with new evidence is not enough for the authorities to re-examine a case.
That’s why the search continues for Robert.
“I really I do not care how he wants to explain, but I need you to tell me what happened when he returned to buy crack on credit to the girl, “says Proctor. “I want you to tell me what he did.”
In early autumn, Proctor made his third trip to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a seven-hour drive from Detroit.
through databases which can be accessed as a private investigator, Proctor learned that Robert had moved to a small, faded city dedicated to the steel industry. Shortly after the murder, the man went with two of his brothers there.
“I did nothing wrong”
On his first trip, Proctor came to a house where neighbors told him that Robert had moved just months before.
In his second attempt, Proctor ended in front of the brother of Robert. He called and handed the phone to Proctor.
“I did nothing wrong,” recalls Robert Proctor said.
What the Monson family has suffered, what which has suffered LaMarr should not have happened “
Bill Proctor
In his third attempt, Proctor tactics had become more sophisticated.
Through an informant, knew that Robert was ill and suggested way to intercept one of his visits to one of the hospitals in the small town.
He checked the criminal records of Robert and analyzed documents to give their addresses and phone numbers, but did not with the current.
He drove around the house with his brother hoping to see him, but had no luck.
In an effort to prepare for the time to confront Robert Proctor asked a man named Walter Swift accompany him.
26 years in prison
As Kensu, Swift had been a prisoner whose story Proctor further convinced that the criminal justice system was broken and that cases like this were never so simple as they seemed.
In 2009, Swift grabbed international headlines when he was released after spending 26 years in prison for crimes (rape and robbery) he did not commit.
Image copyright Iain Maitland Image caption A Bill Proctor started calling him “the doctor”.
DNA evidence showed the innocence of Swift and after Proctor covered his story became friends .
Proctor thought if knew Robert Swift, a charismatic man who had experienced the horrors of an unjust sentence, could be inclined to tell the truth about the murder.
But Swift is not in Johnstown. He had returned to prison for robbing a store.
When Swift received $ 2.5 million in compensation from the city of Detroit by the time he spent in prison, he and his lawyers decided Proctor appointed as the sole trustee of the funds.
Proctor had hoped to help Swift to write books and give lectures.
But after his release, Swift became drug addict. It appeared at the door of Proctor, in middle of the night, decomposed and demanding money.
Proctor says it can not abandon Swift. His plan is to beg a judge that permits Swift to boarding school in Vermont to be rehabilitated.
“I have no idea what will happen, but it will be part of my life until one day one of us dies, “Proctor said.
” We just want our child at home “
On his last day in Johnstown, the sun began to hide when Proctor was preparing to leave the city.
No progress in its search for Robert and before him is a long journey back to Detroit. It must enrumbarse soon because you might miss hearing Swift.
