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About The Morning Blotter
Every police station in America keeps a book — who came in, what happened to them, what time. They called it the blotter. The Morning Blotter is that book for the whole country, kept properly: a free daily email at 7:00 AM ET with the day’s top case, the wire, one case told start to finish, and what is on the docket — and a two-host podcast edition that puts a courts reporter and a former profiler at the desk together.
How we source
Court records and filings first; then official statements from police, prosecutors and medical examiners; then established news outlets and credible legal and genre trade press. Never forums, never unverified social posts, never rumor. Every headline in the brief links to its original source, and every link is checked before the edition goes out — details can evolve, so check the link before repeating them.
How we report
Victims are named with respect, and named again. The accused are presumed innocent until a jury says otherwise. Nobody who has not been charged gets speculated about. We leave out details that would make somebody’s worst day into entertainment, and we say so when we do. We don’t try cases in the mailbag.
The program
The podcast is a produced program. Ray Sullivan and Casey Quinn are AI-voiced storytellers, written and edited by a human desk; every fact they say comes from the sources linked in that morning’s brief. We say this in every episode’s notes and here, because a listener is owed it.
Casey Quinn
Courts reporter — the voice of the victimsThirty-something, quick, precise, and unwilling to let a name go unsaid. Casey opens every case with the people it happened to, says their names correctly and says them more than once, and asks the questions a listener would ask.
Ray Sullivan
Bronx cop turned FBI profiler — the one who did it is hisTwenty years on the job in New York, then twenty more in the Bureau's behavioral unit. Ray takes the case apart from the record — what investigators knew, what they found, what it meant — and he does not pronounce anyone guilty. A profile tells you where to look; it doesn't tell you who did it.
Write to the desk
Questions for Ray and Casey: mailbag@morningblotter.com — first names only on the air; we don’t read tips about private people.
Corrections and everything else: hello@morningblotter.com. Sponsorship: one sponsor per edition, clearly labeled, never inside the reporting — partners@morningblotter.com.