Readers of Retro magazine’s feature article on the Arbuckle case were cheated of learning anything new about the case. Presumably the freelance writer didn’t reference this site. You can tell by the first few paragraphs that the information we have gathered from primary sources has had no impact on his research, along with everything else in print and on the web from those who have seriously revisited the case since 2009.

Perhaps the learning curve is too steep. We can vouch for that given the research that needed to be done for our work-in-progress. (May it not be in vain!)

There is something to learn here, however, about the nature of this story, which includes deliberate obscurantisms that go back a century.