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Search results for "slaying" ...
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Dial M for Martyr
Investigation of the slaying of Edwin Pratt, 38; Edwin was considered to be the Martin Luther King of the Northwest by President Richard Nixon.
Tags: Edwin Pratt; Civil Rights; Racism; Murder
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The Killing Fields
An investigation on murders of women with records of prostitution reviewed hundreds of homicide records and unclassified deaths, showing that more than eighty percent of the murders remain unsolved.
Tags: sex trade; strangling; hooker; trick; DNA; cold case; slaying; brothel; adult entertainment; red light district;
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Justice for Peggy
An investigation into the 40-year-old unsolved torture sex slaying of 14-year-old Margaret Lynn "Peggy" Reber in Lebanon, Pa., the hometown of the reporters.
Tags: homicide; unsolved murder; justice; witnesses; prostitution; DNA evidence
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Who Killed Her Daughter?
"The package of stories focused on the unsolved slaying of four young women within central Virginia that occurred within a seven-month span in 1996."
Tags: forensics; murder; serial killer; Richard Marc Evonitz; slaying; law enforcement; FBI lab; Darrell Rice; innocent; death penalty
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Detective bent on solving man's slaying
A series of stories about crime in Austin, Texas. A look into the homicide unit, police department, detectives, patrol officers and other areas of law enforcement around the city.
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The Sex Murder Files
A in Fresno that was facing charges of kidnapping was believed to be the suspect of the slayings of 10 prostitutes and a pimp in LA since 1985. Pelesik was the first journalist to tie all of the clues together as various law enforcement agencies have been investiating the case off and on.
Tags: police; serial killer; unsolved; prostituion; sex
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Rosy crime numbers were wrong; Crime figures are again clouded
In 2003 the St. Louis police department released records that showed that the crime rate had gone down in the city. Police chief Joe Mokwa took credit for this but eventually realized that the figures were wrong. They updated their records later and hoped no one would notice. Although the police department released data saying that the crime rate had dropped by 18 percent, this reporter being a crime beat reported quicly caught up with what was going wrong.
Tags: St. Louis; crime in St. Louis; police chief of St. Louis; Joe Mokwa; fall in crime in St. Louis; FBI; Francis Slay
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Wrongful Conviction
"When police chief Earl Prentice Sanders was briefly indicted for an alleged departmental cover-up of wrong-doing by three officers," the Chronicle began investigating his past performance at the department. This ultimately led reporter Seth Rosenfeld to the case of a 13-year-old gang slaying, and how two police officers "improperly withheld evidence" resulting in the "conviction and long prison terms for two innocent men." In the aftermath of the Chronicle's reporting, those men, John Tennison and William Goff, were ultimately declared innocent by the authorities and released from prison.
Tags: prison; wrongful; conviction; slaying; gang; misconduct; police; cops; innocence; evidence; court; records; legal; shooting
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Lost in America
More than 1 million kids take to the streets of America each year. Rarely do they commit crimes as heinous as the slaying that took place in northeast Minneapolis on Aug. 13, 1997. Most often, runaways are victims. On Oct. 4, the Star Tribune began a six-day report on the story of the lives of runaway and drifter kids and how they came to murder a young Somali immigrant.
Tags: None
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To die for
Los Angeles Magazine profiles serial killer Dana Sue Gray. After slaying several elderly women and treating herself to binges with her victims' credit cards, Gray said her murders were motivated by an "overwhelming need to shop." Investigators and acquaintances, however, portray Gray as a woman whose conscience was replaced with a need to kill.
Tags: Violence