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Search results for "murder of teenager" ...
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Rules of Engagement
“Rules of Engagement” was a two-year investigation designed to shine public light on the March 6, 2007, murders of two deaf, unarmed teenage brothers and the killing of their unarmed and deaf teenage cousin by American soldiers in Iraq.
Tags: Iraq; murder; American soldiers
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The Mysterious Death of Janie Ward
This hour-long report is a result of a five-year investigation into the death of a 16-year-old girl 20 years ago in a small town in the Ozarks. It's about two daughters -- one wealthy and popular (a cheerleader and beauty queen); the other poor and self-conscious. It's about two fathers -- one a powerful judge who allegedly shielded his daughter from the law he's sworn to uphold; the other a bail bondsman who is trying to avenge his daughter's death. And it's about one family's fight for justice against what they believe is a corrupt judicial system that closed ranks around the powerful judge to cover-up a murder. When 16-year-old Jamie Ward fell off a 9-inch porch in the woods near Marshall, Ark., on September 9, 1989, her parents refused to blieve that the fall had killed their healthy teenager. Instead, they began to suspect to suspect she was murdered by the judge's daughter. After years of demanding an investigation into her death, an independent medical examiner associated with Parents for Murdered Children exhumed Janie's body a second time for an extremely rare third autopsy. Because the case was 20 years old, most of the files were not digital; rather, the investigation focused on old-fashioned reporting: finding and interviewing eyewitnesses (all of whom had not been reinterviewed since the original investigation); analyzing inconsistencies in the witness statements, double-checking the forensics with independent experts.
Tags: autopsy; unsolved death; forensic science; criminal justice system; reopened cases; Arkansas
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Homicide 37
Of the 179 homicides in New Orleans during 2007, the Times-Picayune explored the city's high murder rate through the thirty seventh murder of the year. The story examines the failed justice system from the perspectives of the detectives, the suspect and the family of the victim.
Tags: Lance Zarders; juvenile court; Anthony Pardo; teenager; NOPD; St. Roch; Ak-47; lineup
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Cleveland Gangs
In this two-part series, the CBS news team "take viewers on a journey through the eyes of a group of teenagers - age 15 to 17 - who are self-proclaimed current or ex-gang members. These stories not only provide viewers with a sense of what it is like to grow up on Cleveland's Eastside, but also provide a look at vital solutions from the government and from community groups."
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Someone Has To Die Tonight
The Lords of Chaos, a group of teenage boys on Ft. Myers, FL, went on a crime spree that ended with the murder of a high school band director. Their crimes included theft, vandalism and blowing up a Coca-Cola building. They even planned, but never had a chance to commit, a racially-motivated mass murder at Walt Disney World. As author Jim Greenhill conducted interviews and got to know the group's ringleader on Death Row, the ringleader and his mother asked the author to arrange the murders of three witnesses. Greenhill delves into how these young boys went so horribly bad.
Tags: Murder; Lords of Chaos; crime spree; teenage crime; Death Row; Kevin Foster
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The Cantu Case: Death and Doubt
An exclusive investigation into the case of a teenaged accused murderer executed in 1993 in Texas.The story documented for the first time substantial new evidence, including statements from the lone prosecution witness, the co-defendant, and the alibi witness, that strongly suggests Cantu was wrongly executed. Also the lone eyewitness may have been urged to identify Cantu by the sergeant in charge of the case.
Tags: juvenile offender; Texas; murder; murderer; evidence
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When Moody Ruled
The story analyzed a gang war between the 51st Street Crips and Third Wall Bloods from 1997 through 2001. It recounts how Bloods and Crips came to Kansas City from Los Angeles and morphed into Kansas City sets broken up by neighborhood. Numerous sources identified a teenager named Steven "Moody" Wright as the most violent leader. His brutality was unprecedented. After Moody went to jail, a new war for control broke out and took the lives of children.
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Boxed In
In 1959, a 12 year old white boy is raped, murdered, and stuffed into an icebox in Houston, Texas. For this crime, six black teenagers were arrested. Some served life, one was executed. The Icebox Murder is considered Houston's most infamous race crime, which was forgotten until now. 45 years after the murder, investigative reporter at Dallas Observer tells the story from the eyes of one of the accused murderer and the victim's mother.
Tags: murder; sex abuse; rape; Houston Texas; racism; racial profiling; crime
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Decade of Doubt: The John Hartman Murder
The series explores the possibility four young men, three of whom are Alaska Native, were wrongfully convicted of murdering a Fairbanks teenager. The series focuses on apparent flaws in the police investigation into 15-year-old John Hartman's 1997 murder.
Tags: murder; evidence; police; Alaska; DNA; circumstantial evidence; John Hartman; misconduct; jury
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Learning to Hit a Lick
These articles, written in a narrative form, chronicle the life of a teenage prostitute turned triple -murderer. The first article explores how she ended up working as a prostitute and the role her pimp played in the murders. The second part shows how violent crime previously existed in two of the victims' families.
Tags: murder; death penalty; sex; erotic dancing; teenage pregnancy