Edit: done. Sorry we banned your site (ergh) and I sure hope you write more in the future!
Edit 2: if you'll excuse the morbid aspect, your article reminded me of one I read this year about a long-unsolved murder that took place near where the author grew up, somewhere in the midwest I think. Unfortunately I can't find it right now (maybe it will ring a bell for someone) - but it was also super-well-researched (though less in a first-person voice and less cheeky), and maybe I'm wrong but I think the author has a similar sensibility to yours. We need more writing like this.
Edit 3: oops I didn't answer your question. I'd say the thing to fix in the future is the insufficient number of awesomely-written, intriguing articles by you. This kind of thing is so hard to come by!
Thanks dang! I appreciate your deep dig and kind words. I spend a lot of time on each project (as you saw...) so I can't promise anything soon, but happy to be unbanned.
I think I might have banned my site too if the same simple 10-year-old page was linked to 85 times, so I get it!
Edit: done. Sorry we banned your site (ergh) and I sure hope you write more in the future!
Edit 2: if you'll excuse the morbid aspect, your article reminded me of one I read this year about a long-unsolved murder that took place near where the author grew up, somewhere in the midwest I think. Unfortunately I can't find it right now (maybe it will ring a bell for someone) - but it was also super-well-researched (though less in a first-person voice and less cheeky), and maybe I'm wrong but I think the author has a similar sensibility to yours. We need more writing like this.
(Edit 2a: I found it: http://www.codex99.com/unclassified/patty-and-michael.html. I ran across it because of awesome things previously posted to HN from that author's site: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=codex99.com. "Along the way I’ve learned more than is probably healthy about Canadian quintuplets, murdered teenage cheerleaders, young stage actresses, middle-aged academic cartographers and elderly Victorian taxonomers." - http://codex99.com/about.html)
Edit 3: oops I didn't answer your question. I'd say the thing to fix in the future is the insufficient number of awesomely-written, intriguing articles by you. This kind of thing is so hard to come by!