Solving murders with social media   Myself and Michelle McNamara have created a panel on crowdsourcing crimesolving for 2014’s SXSW. The questions we will answer: How are citizen detectives using the internet and social media circles to help find murderers, rapists, missing children and clues for unsolved crimes? What are the legal boundaries of citizen detection and how far can a citizen push on the […]

Originally Published in January, 2005 For the family of Nine-year-old Messiah Lovelady, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver in May, 2004, it’s a light-colored mini van.   For Anthony Savarese, it’s every dark-colored sedan, his eyes darting to the grill in hopes of finding the telltale front-end damage that resulted from the impact of striking and killing his 14-year-old daughter Jessica on a road […]