Talk:Kathleen Zellner

I believe the edits I made to the article in 2014 (plus new information regarding her work on the Avery case) would solve the neutrality and promotional language issue. Bali88 (talk). Please I was convicted of a crime that I never committed also no witness never ever would the state had months of investigation and found no abuse also state witness was turned into a court witness and silence with out having interviews or questions also paramedics found no evidence of a bruise scratch welt nothing yet the judge found me guilty based on original testimony that has no weight please I only ask for information for my appeal attorney that is court appointment because I am incarcerated please just information please I am in the middle of the appeal process I’m asking for a in person oral argument my attorney that represent me originally was not a criminal attorney as he said he was not did he bring evidence that would show repeated false 911 and other witnesses to my defense please just look at my case please I will owe you please I am innocent look at my case

Photos of Kathleen Zellner
Kathleen Zellner has many photos of her walking out of prison with her exonerees. These would be amazing to have here on her page as well as a stately professional photo. How is this done? Photobobamerica (talk) 06:50, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Date of Birth
We should have a source for the Date of Birth. Saying it conforms to the Texas birth records in an edit summary is insufficient. Knope7 (talk) 03:22, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * This (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-kathleen-zellner-making-a-murderer-20181030-story.html) says she is 61, which fits with the 1957 birth year. Knope7 (talk) 03:19, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Several articles describe Kathleen Zellner as much older than the 61 years old: Zellner is 44 in Sep 1995 here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-09-17-9509170168-story.html ; Zellner is 43 in Dec 1992 here: http://articles.latimes.com/print/1994-12-18/magazine/tm-10434_1_gayle-potter-ralph-frye-death-row ; Zellner is 65 in Mar 2015 here: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/March-2015/Power-100/Kathleen-Zellner/. At the very least, her age is debatable. The older age is corroborated by Texas birth records pictured here: https://i.imgur.com/aOjHWXv.jpg ("Born May 7, 1957, to Owen Daniel and Winifred Thomas in Midland, Texas, Zellner was the second oldest of eight children." according to this article: https://web.archive.org/web/20160102222710/https://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/archives/2014/12/kathleen-zellner.aspx) Can you please let me know what would suffice for updating the page to the actual older age? OldZell (talk) 04:14, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

We seem to be playing tug-of-war over Zellner's birthdate. Rather than doing that, perhaps we should add a section discussing the various reports of her birthdate? Or perhaps the people who believe her birthdare is May 7, 1957 could supply references that are more than a LA Times article? Since she is alive, we could perhaps contact her and ask her? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Llewkcalbyram (talk • contribs) 18:43, 1 November 2018 (UTC)


 * We need to avoid edit warring here. The image of the "Texas birth record" fails as a source for a few reasons. Aside from the fact that it is a heavily redacted image uploaded to an image site, even if it were the original public record, it would fail WP:PRIMARY. I think the dispute over the date of birth indicates it should be removed based on WP:BLPREMOVE. I am going ahead and removing her date of birth. If we get a consensus for the DOB based on reliable sources, it can be added back. Until then, this is a BLP and we need to err on leaving out disputed information. A paragraph in the article explaining the dispute would be original research as none of the sources describe any sort of dispute over her age, they simply list her age.
 * Also, I have rearranged the comments in this thread in chronological order. Please leave new comments at the bottom of the thread. Knope7 (talk) 00:59, 2 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Agree that we should have a source for any date of birth on this page. There are magazine and newspaper sources for both 1957 and for 1949 years of birth. On ancestry.com and other geneology sites you can get confirmation of 1949 as year of birth if you carry out a search with Ms. Zellner's parents' names and the city of her birth, Midland TX. Suggest we keep this page with no date of birth until this matter is resolved. Llewkcalbyram (talk) 02:33, 2 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Screen capture of the Texas Birth Index entry for Kathleen Edrie Thomas: https://imgur.com/7Fg44qf Llewkcalbyram (talk) 03:04, 2 November 2018 (UTC)


 * On her own website, Zellner includes an article (http://www.kathleentzellner.com/blog/kathleen-zellner-the-rescuer) that states "Born May 7, 1957, to Owen Daniel and Winifred Thomas in Midland, Texas". This seems consistent with Zellner claiming a birth year of 1957. However, the Texas Birth Index entry in https://imgur.com/7Fg44qf seems to be in conflict with this in that it shows Owen Daniel and Winifred Thomas of Midland TX giving birth to a daughter Kathleen on May 7, 1949, and that birth year is consistent with ages quoted for her in some earlier articles that editor OldZell listed above. Ms. Zellner would not be the first person to shave a few years off her age. Not sure what should be reported here.Llewkcalbyram (talk) 03:43, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Sorry to say someone switched back to the 1957 birthdate without engaging in discussion here; another editor then removed the birthdate. They did at least cite a source this time, but it is one of the newspaper sources that we already know about and was listed by OldZell previously here in talk. That there is a birthdate dispute is very well documented - perhaps we do need a new section about it?

We seem to have achieved some kind of consensus here in talk to leave the birthdate off the page while it is disputed. I would ask anyone who wishes to specify a birthdate to engage in discussion here so that we can achieve a consensus. Otherwise I fear there will end up being an edit war. Llewkcalbyram (talk) 14:34, 12 November 2018 (UTC)


 * The 1957 birthdate was once again added without discussion here. If it is changed again, I think we will need to move on to some level of dispute resolution to avoid an edit war.Llewkcalbyram (talk) 16:34, 12 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Birthdate was again added 11/30/2018 without comment here. Then someone changed it back. Llewkcalbyram (talk) 15:03, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

== Miss Kathleen zellner ma'am I wanted to touch base with you once again on my wrongful conviction out of Clay center Kansas I done about 5 years on a 7 to 26 year sentence that was coerced that was entrapment and coercion by sheriff Gary Caldwell and his deputy Kelly camp I'd like to file a 75 million lawsuit against the state of Kansas for false imprisonment and I would like to file a against the sheriff's department in Clay center Kansa if it wasn't for the FBI I would have done a whole 26-year sentence today is August 7th 2022My former attorney was Tim Wayne Ryan had a questioner Kansas presently out of Manhattan Kansas the represented me the district judge in the case was district judge P I would like very much for you to please take my case I'm 56 years old diabeticaul Miller who scolded the sheriff Gary Caldwell ==

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