Originally Posted - July 22, 2006

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It's been 29 years.

Michael Niesen's brother and his mother know the truth about his death.

Now they want justice. They want the persons responsible for his death held accountable.

But they're battling falsified and manipulated reports they say have been perpetuated and restated over the past 29 years to cover up what they say was the murder of the teen by police, those reports being the original police report, the initial autopsy report and three reports prepared by the Pinellas County state attorney's office.

They say that every time they present new evidence and ask to have the case reopened, their efforts are stymied.

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