Investigations
The Investigations topic area furnishes cops with the latest news, information and strategies used in closing a case and putting bad guys behind bars. This touches on everything that happens between the suspect’s crimes to the final conviction.
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“Missing: Dead or Alive” will follow Richland County Sheriff’s Department investigators as they work missing persons cases
Police initially discounted a report by Denise Huskins and her boyfriend that a masked intruder drugged them in their home and then kidnapped her
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A telephone company said it didn’t provide the wrong address and phone number to police dispatchers leading to the shooting of three officers, one fatally
Cmdr. Paul Bauer was shot six times, including twice in the head, according to autopsy records
Officer Scotty Hamilton was fatally shot after responding to a call with Kentucky State Police
Authorities say a disgruntled worker killed a nursing supervisor and wounded another medical worker before killing himself inside a hospital
The murder charge was added because Officer Ryan Morton was killed “as a result of” the woman’s drug crime
Police said John Russell Hall was taken into custody Thursday morning without incident
Mayor Catherine Pugh said that a state investigation is unnecessary because the Baltimore PD is already operating under a federal consent decree
Three students were injured after the reserve officer, who’s also a teacher, was teaching a gun safety course when he fired a single shot into the ceiling
Police said the perpetrator was not located and authorities are actively searching for possible suspects
Authorities said package bombs that killed a teenager and wounded two women Monday in Austin are probably linked to a similar bombing that killed a man in the city earlier this month
The video sparked outrage in the community
A Florida court will determine whether police are allowed to use facial recognition software to identify suspects without ever notifying them of the technology
Col. Kerry Gilpin says justice in her late sister’s three decade-old murder is “within reach” after a man was arrested in the 1986 slaying of the teenage girl
The officer sustained a brain bleed and five fractured vertebrae in a Nov. 30 accident
The records appear to support Sheriff Israel’s contention that the SRO should’ve entered Building 12 to engage the shooter
The decision bucks an unprecedented call by Chief Charlie Beck to prosecute one of his own for a deadly, on-duty shooting
While most of the criticism over LE’s response to the shooting is focused on Sheriff Scott Israel, Deputy Jeff Bell said deputies are also paying the price
Anthony Baumgardt said he was not sorry for killing Deputy Jacob Pickett
The school was closed for a safety sweep Thursday after metal detectors and other security measures failed to keep students from handling a gun in a classroom
The trace of a 911 call mistakenly led Clinton police to an address unrelated to the call
Authorities said the 14-year-old boy launched phony investigations and pulled people over while driving in an SUV equipped with flashing blue and red lights
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A prosecutor filed formal murder charges against a man in the fatal shooting of Deputy Jacob Pickett
Two men and a woman are accused of chasing down two suspected teen car thieves, forcing them into the trunk of their car and driving them to the station
Officials ignored a report urging them to eliminate or drastically amend a program that pays veteran first responders salaries and pensions simultaneously
Something stinks in one southeastern New Mexico town and residents want police on the case
“It looked like he was hunting us,” police Sgt. Brian Lee Alcorn stated in the affidavits
A sheriff’s office captain told deputies to form a perimeter instead of confronting the gunman at a Florida high school where 17 people were killed
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