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Sep 2021
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Grace Quackenbos Humiston, aka Mrs. Sher...

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Grace was an attorney and an investigator who did a lot of work to exonerate people who were wrongly convicted, expose corruption, and, in one particularly dramatic case, solve a murder that police had written off as the victim having run away.

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