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A Police Memo, A Discredited Informant, & A Change In Suspects

On March 27, 1991 — three months after he was taken off the investigation of a 1990 double murder — former city police Det. Vaughn Maher authored a memo discrediting an informant who had provided evidence that pointed towards one particular suspect. Maher’s memo helped shift the police department’s attention away from a man named Michael Cardwell and towards the two men who would ultimately be convicted of the crime: Scott Lewis and Stefon Moran…

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New Haven Independent broke the news in New Haven, United States on Thursday, May 7, 2026.
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