Patriot-News investigative reporter Pete Shellem dies


	Patriot-News investigative reporter Pete Shellem dies

ofcapri

10-31-2009 3:30 PM

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"He is a one-man Innocence Project,’’ Preate later told American Journalism Review for a 2007 story about Shellem. “The idea that a single, solitary newspaper reporter can accomplish all this is a remarkable story."

additional info. @ http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4341

Pete Shellem of Harrisburg’s Patriot-News has freed four people from jail through dogged, old-fashioned reporting.
Shellem lived in Gardners in Cumberland County. He is survived by his wife Joyce and two sons, Philip and Alek. investigative

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