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Fatal Flaws: The District's Homicide Crisis
The Washington Post investigates homicide investigations by the D.C. police. The investigation reveals that as the number of homicides in the city have fallen each year, so have the number of arrests in connection with those homicides. In 1999 the D.C. chief of police decided to decentralize the homicide unit, which has caused the unit to fall into disrepair. The Washington Post discovered that the units' files routinely are missing critical documents, and unsolved cases are being ignored.
Tags: homicides; D.C. Police Department; murder; death; neglect; decentralize; law enforcment
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Forgotten Souls
An investigation by The Lawton Constitution reveals only 21 percent of he 14 homicides or mysterious deaths reported in Comanche County have been solved. The series explains why the county sherrifs have had difficulties solving the crimes. Also, the series profiles many of the families of the murder victims.
Tags: Comanche County; Oklahoma; homicides; unsolved crimes; death
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The Harriet-the-Spy Club
The New Yorker investigates the death of Gail Katz and the evidence that has implicated her husband, Bob Bierenbaum, in the murder. This narrative account of the story focuses on the women Bierenbaum has dated and what they think about the accusations.
Tags: Crime; unsolved murders
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"26 Years After, Documents Offer More on Deaths of 2 in Chile"
A Presidential order to release information regarding human rights abuses in Chile cleared the way for further investigation into the unsolved murder of two American supporters of Socialist Salvador Allende, at the risk of possibly implicating the CIA in the incident.
Tags: state department; intelligence; Augusto Pinochet; FOIA; security; Frank Teruggi; Charles Horman; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Dead reckoning
Westword reports that "When Michael Furlong's wife, Deanna, tried to get him to sign divorce papers, she ended up dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs. Prosecutors discovered that 10 years ago, another young woman who'd attempted to break up with Furlong in another Colorado town had also disappeared; her body had been found in a dump some months later. But because the forensic evidence was weak, they were unable to connect the two deaths or to convict Furlong of anything stronger than criminally negligent homicide. After two years on work release in Boulder County Jail, Furlong will be free to love again. This case illustrates both the lack of aggressiveness of the Boulder County District Attorney's office (known nationwide for its inability to come up with a change in the JonBenet Ramsey case) and the difficulties of prosecuting domestic violence."
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Who killed John McCloskey?
The Roanoke Times takes a look at the suspicious death of John McCloskey. The medical examiner concluded McCloskey's injuries were inflicted while he was in the custody of either the sheriff's department or the state mental hospital.
Tags: Police brutality mental health unsolved assault criminal justice system internal investigation
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Body Dumps I and II
Betty Jean Scales was murdered and tossed in the gravel pits near El Monte, California in 1973. This was the second unsolved murder in El Monte's history, the first coming 15 years earlier. That first victim was the author's mother. Ellroy chronicles his search for Scales' killer 25 years after her death.
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No title (id: 13957)
In the wake of the unsolved murder of gangster rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas last fall, ABC news began to investigate the background of the man driving the car in which Shakur was murdered. The driver, record executive Marion "Suge" Knight, was feared by many in the music industry because of his reputation for violence and persistent rumors surrounding his rise to power. An extensive investigation of court records revealed that Knight was a three-time convicted felon who had not only managed to stay out of jail, but within the space of a few short years, rose from music industry bodyguard to head what has become the most profitable record label in the country. ABC's investigation of Knight's unprecedented rise to power uncovered how he used violence and intimidation to build his company, Death Row Records, into a billion dollar business. (November 6, 1996)
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No title (id: 13845)
On May 21, 1991, a popular University of Chicago Divinity School professor named Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The crime remains unsolved. The book pieces together the evidence to show that the murder was in fact what Culianu's friends suspected all along: the first political assassination of a professor on American soil. A Romanian emigre and expert in myth and Renaissance magic, Culianu in 1990 began writing and broadcasting his outspoken opposition to his home county's post communist government, resulting in death threats which he reported to friends and colleagues. The books sifts through police, court and published records, drawing on hundreds of interviews, to tell a story of a writer who, by manipulating words, accidentally manipulated the world. (November, 1996)
Tags: Anton Contest entry Published by University of Northwestern Press BOOK Various Newspaper articles Eros; Magic and the Murder of Professor Culianu 39 pgs.
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No title (id: 12960)
Most of the murders of the modern Civil Rights Era remain unsolved, unprosecuted and unforgiven. These assassinations, spanning a period roughly from 1955 to the 1970s, were last gasps of desperation to maintain White supremacy. To this day, family and friends continue to seek justice for the death of their loved ones.(April 1996)
Tags: Smith Unsolved Murders Discrimination Minorities Racism 8 pgs