During the unrest in the early 1970s that led to the devastation of Baltimore's industry and commerce, two union leaders who were accused of committing violent acts against the management of a particular plastics manufacturer hid in the basement of a sympathetic friend's row house in Hampden. The men were later arrested but charges against them were dropped, when evidence revealed that executives had lied about the physical attack in an attempt to frame their political rivals. After the men left his cellar, the homeowner boarded it up as a way of putting this difficult period in both his personal and the city's history behind him. Then, recently, a friend of ours bought that very row house from the sympathetic man's son, and immediately reopened the cellar, which had been closed for so many years, hoping to finish the space so as to create a sort of multi-use workspace and guest room, only to make an alarming discovery. Sitting, covered with dust but otherwise undisturbed, in the middle of the dry cellar floor was a box of documents and photographs left behind by the two former fugitives. The papers offered detailed records of the plastics executives' families' personal information, including the schools that each of their children attended and clear, candid snapshots (each neatly labeled) of each of their wives and all of their children. Our friend brought these items to the authorities, as he felt this evidence suggested that the acquitted and free men had indeed planned something more despicable and, if they were not arrested when they were, may have kidnapped or done something worse to the plastics executives. The union leaders were both still alive and in their eighties. One still lived in Baltimore, while the other had retired to South Carolina. Three of the plastics executives were also still alive, as were most of the potential victims, their wives and children, and the former executives made it clear that they still bore a great deal of anger toward the men whom they had tried to frame. The question that the authorities are still facing is whether it is necessary or even proper to pursue the decades-old evidence that fell into their laps with the goal of punishing and prosecuting two elderly men.