The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "murder" ...
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Tile Mill: Hands-on Tutorial
This tutorial shows you how to find the murder rate and poverty rate.
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Murder Mysteries
Nearly 185,000 homicides went unsolved from 1980 to 2008. Debunk murder mysteries with the help of this tip sheet.
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Tracking guns:How to investigate gun dealers and track murder weapons
Grimaldi, 2010 IRE award winner, provides the PowerPoint he used at this year's conference. Get inside information on how he and his team tracked down guns and the gun dealers who sold them.
Tags: gun dealers; Washington Post; The Hidden Life of Guns;
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How to find a Serial Killer
"If you work in a medium- to large-size city, the odds are very good that there are unsolved serial killings in your community." Hargrove gives quick tips on how to search for unsolved murders.
Tags: cold case; serial killer; unsolved murders; "pattern blindness"
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The Pearl Project: Teaching Students Information Gathering While Protecting the Enterprise of Investigative Journalism
Barbara Feinman Todd, associate dean of journalism at Georgetown University, discusses the Pearl Project, an investigation into the murder of Daniel Pearl. The authors discuss how the Pearl Project began, how they use it as a teaching tool, how the project utilizes social networks and wikis, and how students learn from being a part of it.
Tags: Daniel Pearl; journalism education; technology; social networks; Pearlpedia; convergence
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The House of death
"Between August 2003 and mid-January 2004, a dozen people were kidnapped, tortured and murdered at the house of Death with the help of U.S. government informant who was under the watch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in El Paso."
Tags: immigration; Mexico; Texas; narco-trafficking; Border Track
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Project “K†Meets Project “Aâ€
"30 years ago, journalists from dozens of news outlets joined hands (and pens) in Arizona after reporter Don Bolles was killed. A similar effort is underway after last year’s murder of Paul Klebnikov in Moscow."
Tags: Paul Klebnikov; Russia; journalist;
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Getting started on the cops beat
Ploheski's tipsheet is a guide for new crime reporters who want to excel immediately. It contains advice for cultivating sources, establishing your presence, obtaining records, and being thorough. It also includes one of Plohetski's crime stories for the Austin-American Statesman.
Tags: crime; police; law enforcement; justice system; criminals; jail; prison; victims; murder; cops
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Tips for Research on Cold Cases
Woodward describes the processes that she went through when reporting on the then-unsolved murder cases that involved Dennis, Barbara and Donna Yaklich. She explains how she and her photographer came up with a detailed to-do list of things to research and also includes the stories that came out of their research. Woodward also provides a copy of Barbara Yaklich's autopsy.
Tags: criminal investigations; forensics; crime; law enforcement; unsolved crimes
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Investigating forensics
Mejia comprehensively explains crime lab investigations. She suggests what questions to start with, what types of tests to examine, online resources, sources to interview, and documents to find.
Tags: crime labs; law enforcement; forensics; science; criminal justice system; courts; FBI; police