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Seeking Justice for Jill: The Behrman Murder Investigation
WXIN-TV reporter Kimberly King spent most of 2006 looking into the police investigation of the death of Jill Behrman, an Indiana University-Bloomington sophomore who disappeared in May 2000. Her body was found in 2003, "miles from where detectives thought (she) had been killed." For the intervening three years, "investigators built their case around a convicted woman's false confession." But after the body was discovered, a lead detective sealed the public records regarding the case and did little to pursue it further. Spurred by a request from a relative of Behrman, WXIN worked on the story for three years, finally spending 2006 blowing it open. As a result, police moved further on the case.
Tags: Murder; Indiana University; police; homicide; closed cases; homicide investigations; missing persons; false confession
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Too Close For Comfort
Known child sex offenders are not permitted to live within 500 feet of schools, playgrounds, or other facilities that provide programs for minors only. After an investigation, nine sex offenders were found to violate the 500 feet law.
Tags: sex offender; child molestation; sexual abuse; zoning law; Peoria Police; Bloomington
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Tasers
WTIU-TV investigated the November 2003 death of James Borden, an inmate at the Monroe County Indiana Jail in Bloomington. Borden died during his booking. Just after his death, the jail revealed that officers had used a TASER device on him during the booking process because he was being "combative." Between his death and the air date of the story, there had been no disciplinary action taken against the officers, no charges filed in the case, and no ruling from any authority on whether or not the officers acted appropriately.
Tags: TASERs; law enforcement weapons
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GE Brings Bad Things to Life
The Nation investigates what is behind the plans of General Electric to cut 1,400 jobs at its plant in Bloomington, Indiana. The story reveals that half the production will be moved to Mexico, where "instead of $24 an hour in wages and benefits, labor can be bought for $ 2 an hour." The author points out that this is the largest GE's mass layoff in Bloomington in recent years. The report finds that "if the cost-saving exercise delayed more aggressive action - and gave managers the benefit of the workers' knowledge free of charge - it also inspired some collective spirit within the shop." The investigation sheds light on the labor unions' indecisiveness about how to fight the coming layoff.
Tags: labor unions; Jack Welch; unemployment; profitability; international; Hispanic; Latino
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Kansas City Star article tells the story of Baby Doe, a child born in Bloomington, Ind., with birth defects whose parents allowed it to die after winning that right in a court battle, Aug. 11, 1985.
Tags: IN
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No title (id: 2274)
Herald-Telephone (Bloomington, Ind.) looks at the proliferation of handguns in Bloomington and the state of Indiana; increase in violent crimes has led to record purchases of handguns in the area, November 1981.
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