The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. These stories 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. Stories are not available for download but can be easily ordered by contacting the Resource Center:
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Secret Service Strip Club: El Salvador
Seattle-based investigative reporter Chris Halsne tracks down a reluctant source in El Salvador to expose allegations that getting drunk, partying with strippers, and paying for sex with third-world prostitutes is part of the U.S. Secret Service culture. This investigative series is aired just weeks after agents were caught in Columbia with hookers – and just days after Homeland Security Director announced to Congress that Columbia was an isolated incident.
Tags: corruption; U.S. Secret Service; El Salvador; Seattle
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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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Toxic Pipeline
"Before China was implicated in the Panama poisoning, Bogdanich began investigating the incident because of similarities to another poisoning ten years earlier in Haiti," where a Chinese company was involved." Reporters at The New York Times traced the deaths from a cough syrup back to China. In the process, they exposed a frightening lack of oversight on imported products. When the FDA learned of the Times' story, it immediately halted all imports of Chinese glycerin. And more than 30 countries recalled Chinese made toothpaste containing anti-freeze.
Tags: poison; China; Panama; Haiti; FDA; imports; toxic chemicals; Investigative Reporting Pulitzer winner;
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Mississippi Cold Case
"The process of making the documentary, "Mississippi Cold Case" solved an intractable civil rights era hate crime and helped put a Ku Klux Klansman behind bars for life. The film tells the step-by-step story of how victim's family member Thomas Moore and documentary filmmaker David Ridgen reignite interest in Charles Moore and Henry Dee case..."
Tags: Civil Rights; KKK; Ku Klux Klan; murder; FBI; James Ford Seale; Cold Case Bill;
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No Place for a Child
Thanks to a ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court, MSNBC and Calamari Productions "gain legal access to go where cameras are forbidden to go and track five children through their painful ordeal" in America's child welfare system. The goal was to examine why some children are placed in relative care and others are sent to foster care, and continue to compile research as the Indiana Department of Child Services pushes for legislators to help these children.
Tags: Cild welfare; foster care; relative care; Indiana Supreme Court; Indiana Department of Child Services
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Kids in Crisis: When the State Steps In
This documentary examines the process behind court ordered forcible removal of children from their families. It covers exchanges between social workers, police, parents, children and judges and follows the real-life court intervention of an Indiana family. Cameras follow the forcible removal of children from their home in the middle of the night.
Tags: child welfare; social services; family court; police; families; children
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Trail of Terror: Jihad in Iraq
This story examines the insurgency in Iraq from multiple perspectives. It focuses solely on foreign fighters coming into Iraq to join Abu Musab Zarqawi's forces, but the investigation follows insurgents coming in from Europe, Lebanon, Syria and America. The story explores these fighters' motives and reveals that their convictions are driven by U.S. policy and Muslim solidarity rather than hatred of freedom or socioeconomic factors. It includes interviews with experts, jihadis and their family members, and military commanders.
Tags: terrorism; insurgency; Iraq; Zarqawi; jihad; suicide bombing; U.S. military; radicals
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Slavery of the Brothel
An extensive account of the growing sex slave trade in the Balkans -- particularly Kosovo. "A virulent Mafia business is thriving in postwar Kosovo: the $7 to $12 billion traffic in Eastern European women lured by promises of work, then forced into prostitution. Despite international efforts, sex slave traders have been nearly impossible to prosecute, thanks to corruption, local laws, and the victims' fear of testifying. Tracing the path of one young Moldovan woman, Sebastian Junger conducts his own investigation of a vicious cycle that traps as many as 200,000 women a year."
Tags: sex; sex slavery; slavery; brothel; prostitution; prostitute; hooker; strip; strip club; sexual abuse; mafia; organized crime; balkans; kosovo; serbia; moldova; bulgaria
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In A Child's Best Interest
MSNBC reports on child welfare hearings in three Indiana juvenile courts. "Specifically, these hearings involve children who are the victims of abuse, neglect, or at-risk situations. The program focuses on one of the more desperate corners of modern life and penetrates the world of the juvenile justice system, which, by law, is closed to the public and media. Our cameras expose stories of sexual abuse and capture how the courts handle these young victims. We also reveal excruciating, personal experiences as children are placed in residential treatment facilities. Lastly, we document the incompetence of a state child welfare system that allowed a teenage girl to go through two-dozen foster homes during her 14 years in the system."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Video; juvenile justice; FOIA; teenagers; foster children; abuse; neglect; sexual abuse; child welfare hearings; Indiana juvenile court; residential treatment facilities; state child welfare system
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Prostitution Gangs Hit Houston
KPRC-TV reports on "a rare, out-of-state organization of prostitutes and their pimps" in a busy Houston neighborhood. The investigation used hidden cameras to show how the prostitutes were openly stopping traffic. The follow-up segments report on the police "massive sweep" of the area, and explain some nontraditional crackdowns used in the fight against the massive organization. "The problem is just beginning to hit cities throughout the country," the story reveals.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; crime; business; communities; hookers