Accurate, vivid storytelling with impact.
I’m an award-winning investigative journalist. For more than 20 years, my stories have revealed wrongdoing and held the powerful accountable, and my feature writing has transported audiences to new places and experiences.
Destroyed
My investigation “Destroyed” uncovered that police nationwide trashed rape kits – most never tested for DNA – in at least 400 sex crime cases before the statutes of limitations expired or when there was no time limit to prosecute. The destruction followed flawed and incomplete investigations and, in some cases, violated the law.
IMPACT:
Georgia passed a law prohibiting the destruction of rape kits
Police stopped destroying evidence, apologized and state leaders ordered reviews.
Vice President Kamala Harris called the report devastating
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The Uncounted
This multi-year investigation revealed that military family members were attempting and committing suicide during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but the Defense Department was not keeping track of their deaths. The story offers intimate portraits of a teen, a spouse, siblings and a mother and father whose vicarious trauma brought them to the brink.
IMPACT:
Shortly after “Uncounted” published, Congress asked the U.S. Defense Department to collect data on the number of military family members who die by suicide.