Kay Anderson has worked as a writer, producer, and private investigator.  But her investigation experience was limited to cases involving skip tracing, missing assets, and the like.  Her interest in wrongful convictions began after, what a friend labeled, ‘her unfortunate incarceration.’ 

In 1994, following a 911 call for medical help for a drug reaction, she was arrested, thrown in the Dallas County jail, and charged with transportation of a controlled substance.  The substance was not controlled but it didn’t matter.  She was facing a 20 year sentence if convicted.  She was one of the lucky ones; her case was dismissed.

Anderson’s experience prompted her to look into the 1985 conviction of a friend in Michigan and thus began her training as a post conviction investigator.  Every bit of evidence in the rape case(s) had been destroyed, against a request to retain it all.  Suspect composites had been altered to resemble the defendant.  Police reports had been withheld and/or altered.  Photo show-ups had been manipulated.  And a deal had been made with a jail house snitch.  One of the ‘victims’ faked a rape.

Her friend remains in prison but the lessons learned from that one investigation are being applied to cases in Northwest Ohio.  Anderson founded NWOIC with the goal of teaching others what she has learned over the past 30+ years.