An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the crew that used technology, sophistication and brute force to carry out home invasions across the country. … More Inside the national home invasion ring — and how authorities brought it down
It was something about the way she flopped into the chair and cried, all raw innocence and seething emotion, that sent Jim Cunneely back. The 15-year-old girl was having a problem with her father. When she rushed into Cunneely’s empty classroom at Kittatinny Regional High School that morning in 2006, she was looking to vent. She was looking for consolation. Cunneely, a French teacher, said he felt like he was looking at himself. … More The Cycle of Sexual Abuse (Part 2): A Teacher’s Betrayal
This story led to Michael Fugee’s arrest and removal from the priesthood. It also sparked widespread criticism of Archbishop John J. Myers and led to the reassignment of Myers’ top assistant. … More Priest works with kids despite lifetime ban
A detailed look into the sad life and lingering death of an 8-year-old girl. … More Within four walls, a world of pain
Al Davis wishes he could forget that Sunday afternoon, wash it away like the blood he hosed off his front porch. But some images stick with a man. A gut-shot granddaughter is one of them. … More Innocents Lost: When lives are shattered in the crossfire
Two years after a serial killer left four prostitutes in a water-filled ditch, the women’s children carry on. … More In Living Memory: children of the Atlantic City victims
In a sweeping corruption scandal stretching from a small South Jersey school district to the corridors of power in the state’s northern cities, federal agents charged 11 public officials yesterday with taking bribes in exchange for help securing public contracts. … More Federal corruption sting nabs 11 public officials
Tamika Riley, a woman with a flair for fashion and an appetite for finery, appeared to be flat broke. Her Newark clothing boutique had gone belly up. She needed public assistance to help pay the rent on her apartment. She wanted a Mercedes, but her credit was so bad a friend had to sign the lease for her. Then, in the late 1990s, she met Newark Mayor Sharpe James, and her fortunes turned. … More Sweetheart deals for mayor’s mistress
On the streets of Atlantic City, everyone’s got a suspect. Prostitutes speak of creepy, threatening johns. Employees of a run-down motel talk about the Scripture-quoting guest who kept a collection of women’s shoes in his room. One woman, now jailed, points to a “white guy with a lot of money” who hosted a crack-fueled, motel-hopping sex party. … More Streetwalker killings are a daunting case in A.C.
A deeply reported portrait of the four women slain by a serial killer in Atlantic City. Before drugs put them on a path to prostitution, they were daughters, wives, mothers. … More The Atlantic City victims: Four lives of lost youth
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