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Digital Footprint & Sunshine Law
Our investigation led to a politician's resignation and criminal charges using social network search engines, traditional online databases and open records requests to identify his criminal past and as many as seven females who were pictured in nude photos, harassed, stalked or suffered cyber identity theft.
Tags: broadcast; criminal past; politician; resignation
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Right By Miles
This story looked back to a traffic accident six years ago (2002) in which a car driven by a teenager ran off a back country road in the middle of the night and his passenger, a 16-year-old named Miles White, was killed. The polk County Shriff's Office investigated, ruled it a single car accident and charged the 19-year-old driver with DUI-manslaughter. The Times was able to show that the sheriff's office had engaged in a cover-up. It was not a single-car crash; it was caused by a Polk County sheriff's deputy, who, as it turned out, was a sexual predator who like teenage boys. He chased the boys that night, hit their rear bumper and ran them off the road. The Times showed that before the accident, the sheriff's office had been warned that they had a deputy who was using his undercover vehicle to stalk teenage boys. They had not heeded that warning and left him on the road. If he then caused an accident that killed a boy, the department would have been on the hook for multimillion dollar damages in a wrongful death lawsuit. The office chose instead to cover up the truth.
Tags: sheriff's department; Florida; car accidents; cover-up; sexual predators; wrongful dath
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Crime Reporting
The collection of work includes a broad range of crime reporting angles, including: the impact on victims; the ramifications of crimes that sometimes escape public attention like robberies and stalking; how shoe leather police work can crack an international gambling and money laundering ring and bring a murder suspect who escaped to Mexico to trial in Austin for the first time in recent history.
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Your Cell Phone Records Are For Sale
Spurred by a report "buried in the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police newsletter," the Sun-Times looks into the fact that anyone - including criminals - could purchase police officers' cell phone records on the Internet. Reporter Frank Main tested this by purchasing his own cell records for $110 from an online broker. "The records detailed the time and date of each call, and the telephone number called." The broker who sold these records turned out to be a convicted felon. Experts note that the easy access to such records "puts women at risk from stalkers; undercover officers at risk of having confidential informants exposed by criminal targets; and business people at risk of being spied on by corporate rivals."
Tags: Cell phones; wireless phones; cell phone records; stalking; undercover officers; corporate espionage
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American Taboo: A murder in the Peace Corps
In this book, the author unravels the truth behind a 25-year-old murder in the Peace Corps. The investigation chronicles how a male Peace Corps volunteer posted to a small island in the South Pacific stalked and killed a female volunteer who had rejected his advances. The man was found to be insane, but when he was returned to the United States under assurances he would be hospitalized for his crime, he went free in a matter of days because he refused to go to the hospital. The investigation also discloses how the Peace Corps tried to suppress the incident at the time.
Tags: BOOK; murder; Peace Corps; Tonga
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"Stalking the stalkers"
This investigation set out to show the dangers associated with the Internet for children. A reporter posed online as a 13-year-old girl; it took only minutes for men to respond. While the reporter was certain not to lure or solicit, the men performed sex acts on their Web cams. Those who made travel arrangements to rendezvous with the fictitious 13-year-old were confronted, and the station's reports prompted investigations of two men followed by indictments.
Tags: Internet; Web; sex crimes; teens; stalkers; pedophiles
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How to stop it from stalking you
The report explains why spam is so widespread, why is so difficult to trace and what really works to block it. Consumer Reports tested and rated 11 major spam-blocking software and found that ebst software filtered 90 percent of the spam.
Tags: spam; e-mail; AOL; CAN-Spam Act
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Good Cops, Very Bad Man. Murders Put to Rest: The Untold Story of the Starbucks Triple-Homicide Investigation. When an odd couple of detectives stalked one of Washington's most notorious killers, they had to wonder: who was the hunter and who was the hunted? A Dance with Death.
This article explains how detectives worked on the infamous Starbucks Coffee triple-homicide investigation in Washington, D.C. The article cites dozens of sources and interviews.
Tags: Washington; D.C.; Starbucks; Starbuck's; Starbuck's Coffee; homicide; triple-homicide; murder; killer; gun; death; crime; robbery; cops; police
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Stalked by Allstate
Allstate superagent Myles Barchas of Dallas blew the whistle on company violations of Texas law. Over six months, company-hired private tracked him, sometimes in auto chases at 100 mph. An Allstate memo told company executives about his visit to the Texas state insurance department.
Tags: Allstate; Texas; insurance agent; consumers; discrimination
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Stalking in L.A.
The New Yorker examines the work of the Los Angeles Threat Management Unit, the only police unit in the nation devoted exclusively to combating stalking. The story compares the anti-stalking strategies of the cops at the unit with the those suggested by private consultants who have given advice to the L.A. police. While cops' standard procedure is based on obtaining a restraint order and arresting the stalkers, consultants recommend for victims to change their homes, jobs and phone numbers. The article details a few cases that the threat unit has been dealing with for years, and finds that the 'safety' strategy advised by the consultants has been more successful.
Tags: stalking; crime; police; fear; personal protection; law enforcement