On a cold Mississippi night in 1978, 20-year-old Deborah Gunner was working the graveyard shift alone — and she would never come home.
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A clear look at how one death became crime coverage in some papers and a remembered life in another.
A newspaper can make the same death feel like public spectacle, or like a life held in view. This episode traces that divide through coverage of Debra Mullis Gunter, who was taken hostage during a robbery in Gaucher and later found dead near Mobile.
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When newspaper coverage can shape what witnesses think they know, you may want this measured look at who gets remembered and how.
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