The conviction has been criticized for being based on evidence that, to some, didn’t paint a convincing case. After a semester-long look at the 11-year-old case, many of the students ended up agreeing with the skeptics. Tiffany Stronghart had never been in a prison before, much less gone there to talk to a murder convict.
So she was nervous upon meeting Penny Brummer. But Stronghart was surprised when Brummer put her at ease.
….Stronghart is a graduate journalism student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was participating in Deborah Blum’s 15-week investigative journalism class, which took on as its project Brummer’s 11-year-old conviction for murdering Sarah Gonstead, a confidante of Brummer’s estranged lover.