This story isn't "contemporary", I've written history on much more serious matters that have happened as recently, even more recently, then the tales in this work. I've had to deal with sources whose lives and the lives of their families would likely be in danger if handled poorly. You still...
That's not how historians do their work. It's fine for journalism, I believe (I'm a historian, not a journalist) but historians are required show their work, where it came from. It needs to be work that can be replicated by other historians. It doesn't matter that you have anecdotal evidence...