Dec 15, 2021
After her 2014 murder, on a bright weekday afternoon, the family of Grace Chen, the Austin community that had embraced her, and local investigators attempt to puzzle out her case--even as an art theft adds levels of complexity, and more questions than answers. In part two of this series, Grace’s son, Jacky, community...
Dec 8, 2021
In Febuary of 2014, Grace Chen--mother, small-business-owner, talented teacher, and active member of her Austin community—was murdered just steps away from her own language school. In the seven-plus years since her murder, her son, Jacky, and community members, like advocate Amy Wong Mok, have attempted to...
Nov 17, 2021
In over a century’s worth of investigation into the unsolved murders attributed to the unknown killer called “Jack the Ripper,” little real attention has been paid to the five canonical victims--they’ve been treated as objects for dissection, not human beings with full lives.
Author and historian Hallie...
Nov 10, 2021
The identification of the Lyon County Jane Doe as Wilma June Nissen was only the first step in unraveling a complex crime; once her identity was known, investigators began to piece together who had left her in a ditch along Iowa’s Highway 182, in 1978--and why.
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Nov 3, 2021
In October of 1978, when the body of an unknown woman was discovered off a highway in rural Iowa, local authorities had no idea it would take 28 years to identify the victim—or that her identification would also connect them to a daughter, determined to solve her mother’s murder.
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