We aren't finished yet with Trina Bachtel's death and Hillary Clinton's casual misrepresentation of it. Although the national media have been eager to move on, the Ohio press is taking their responsibility to get the truth seriously.
Today, the Columbus Dispatch's Jack Torry and Catherine Candinsky provide the most complete account yet of Bachtel's story.
They show just how comprehensively wrong Clinton was, but also how extraordinarily incurious the media has been about Clinton's false account.
They also remind us of a larger context that has been lost in reporting so far -- of the injustice that is done to Trina Bachtel and her family by distorting the circumstances of her death.
The story of Trina Bachtel's life had a tragic ending -- twice.
In August, the 35-year-old woman from Middleport in southeastern Ohio died at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus after complications during a pregnancy in which son Trey was stillborn.
Six-and-a-half months after Bachtel was buried by her family, the story of her death became a major feature in the speeches of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. First in Ohio and then in other states, Clinton told aghast audiences of the woman who had lost her first child, and then her own life, because she lacked health insurance and could not get proper care.
"We had just started to calm down, and now they're making me relive everything all over again," said her sister, Kandi Tracy of Racine, Ohio.
The emergence of Trina Bachtel into the 2008 presidential campaign was the result of inaccurate information passed on to Clinton, her campaign's failure to vet the account and the neglect of news organizations to promptly check out the story.
As it turns out, almost none of what Clinton said was accurate. Bachtel was insured through her job managing a pizza restaurant, she was under the regular care of an obstetrics facility in Athens, and she had been part of the O'Bleness Health System in Ohio.