Mary Moffett sat in a huge chair in her living room on a cold January day in Ann Arbor, Michigan, switched to a blank page in her notepad, and wrote a letter. She typed it out and printed two copies, one for the University of Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel and one for Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh.
“I am writing to you as a mother who is grieving the loss of her 22 year-old-daughter,” Jan. 21, 2021, the letter read. “I am writing and tell you this, as a Michigan football player is partially responsible for her death.” Quinn Moffett, Moffett’s daughter, had been found dead in her boyfriend’s toilet fifteen days earlier. Everything pointed to an unintentional drug overdose. Get the whole picture—click here ▶