Nate Morabito
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“Everybody should be angry.”
Aaliyah Fortner’s brother shared those words after the 23-year-old’s former caregiver appeared for the first time on a murder charge.
As we’ve found, police and DSS were warned about Marlo Wallace long before Fortner, who had severe disabilities, was placed in her Dallas, NC home.
In fact, our investigation found the courts even revoked Wallace’s longtime guardinaship over another dependent adult amid safety concerns.
An autopsy found Fortner was just 84 pounds at the time of her death and concluded she died in October from complications of "calorie malnutrition due to inadequate nutritional intake due to caregiver neglect.”
Caleb Simpson, Fortner’s brother, said the state failed Aaliyah.
05/28/2026
This investigation exposed a true injustice.
How did police, prosecutors and the court system fail to correct this before it got to this point?
"If it happened to me, it could happen to you," Kendrick Gonzalez told us.
His experience has struck a chord.
In less than two weeks, 175,000 people on YouTube alone have watched our reporting.
Former teacher sues Charlotte police for mistaken identity conviction that cost him his career Kendrick Gonzalez is suing the city of Charlotte after a wrongful conviction left him jobless. He says police were negligent in misidentifying him.
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