AltWeeklies Wire
What the Boy Sawnew
A child's testimony put three men on death row. The neighborhood saw it differently.
Cleveland Scene |
Kyle Swenson |
06-08-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Harry Franks, Ronnie Bridgeman
Shakeup in Lockdownnew
As Ohio prisons go private, a prison town goes berserk.
Cleveland Scene |
Loretta Ashyk |
06-01-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tragedy in Trinitynew
After vanishing with her 2-year-old daughter Sofia, Claudia Pedreros was found walking naked down a rural road. At first she told sheriffs that she didn't have a daughter and didn't know how she'd gotten there. But when her daughter's body was pulled from the weedy banks of the Trinity River, Pedreros allegedly confessed that she'd drowned her own daughter.
North Coast Journal |
Travis Turner |
05-26-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Claudia Pedreros, Sofia Pedreros
Megan's Flaw: When a Sexual Predator Isn't One in the Eyes of the Lawnew
Two and a half years after Derrick Cook almost killed Katrina Mansfield, she sits quietly in a courtroom, alone, awaiting what the justice system considers fair trade for what she calls her life sentence. By any reasonable definition, Cook is a violent sexual predator—except, after a drawn-out and botched hearing to determine the status, in the eyes of the law.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
05-25-2011 |
Crime & Justice
A Dirty, Vicious Businessnew
In the Peck Canyon corridor, violent crimes and the discovery of body parts occur with disturbing regularity.
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W. Banks |
05-25-2011 |
Crime & Justice
The Burden of Proofnew
For every person exonerated for a crime they didn't commit, there are many like James Legate: questionable cases, bulldozed through a flawed system, with no recourse left. Only a miracle could free him—and his wife is working, and hoping, for no less.
The Texas Observer |
Laura Burke |
05-17-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Prisons, James Legate
To Serve, to Protect and...to Stealnew
If TSA workers steal from the people they are supposed to be protecting, how can they be trusted to keep the nation safe from terrorism?
New York Press |
Spencer Wilking |
05-13-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Man Seeks Answers 44 Years After Witnessing Brother's Deathnew
Charles Stecker was only 4 years old when he saw his foster mother kill his 2-year-old brother Eddie, but he remembers it like it was yesterday.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
05-11-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Hustle & Woenew
Aspiring rap mogul Shyan Selah stands accused of fleecing Jimi Hendrix's best friend and his associates.
Seattle Weekly |
Keegan Hamilton |
05-09-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Shyan Selah
A Convict's Odysseynew
When he was 16, Mark Clements talked his way into four life sentences. Twenty-eight years later, he talked his way out.
Chicago Reader |
Steve Bogira |
05-05-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Mission Accomplished. Now Who's Next?new
Now who is the world’s Pre-eminent Evildoer? I’m looking at the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list where they now have a nice red DECEASED under Osama Bin Laden’s mugshot, and these other mugs up there, no offense, they just don’t have the candlepower OBL was packing in terms of being a Bad People.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
05-04-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Immune From Prosecutionnew
What happens when an alleged killer receives a get-out-of-jail-free card?
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
04-27-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Chuck McCain, Curtis Bunton
Texas Still Executes Mentally Retarded Criminals ... For Nownew
Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ban, Texas has continued to send mentally retarded criminals to death row. Will Daniel Plata's case correct this injustice?
The Texas Observer |
Renée Feltz |
04-19-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Long Island Serial Killer: Beach Bodiesnew
There will be a few things different about beach season on Long Island this year. The Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular, canceled due to budget concerns, will return this summer, and cadaver dogs will be walking along the bay, as digital police signs ask visitors for information on the potential 10 bodies found decomposing on what is now a 15-mile-long crime scene.
Long Island Press |
Jaclyn Gallucci |
04-19-2011 |
Crime & Justice
How a 40-day Crime Spree Changed One Man's Life Forevernew
Al Hadlock was scared. Things were falling apart around him. His wife kicked him out. He lost his job. And he knew if he did this — if he robbed this bank — it would only get worse. But he was numb. Confused. Desperate. And so Hadlock walked through the doors of BankOne.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
04-14-2011 |
Crime & Justice
