by PERL | Aug 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
This article was originally published by the Institute for Public Service Reporting on August 26, 2020. Debby Dalhoff was raped and tortured decades ago by a masked intruder who slipped away into the Memphis night never to be identified. Her search for answers, and...
by PERL | Aug 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
She fell asleep that night as “Judge Joe Brown” blared from her bedroom television, waking hours later to a light drizzle on her window — and the outline of an intruder standing at the foot of her bed. “I tried to get up and get to the front door, but he started...
by PERL | Aug 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
This story was originally published by the Institute for Public Service Reporting on August 4, 2020. When a Memphis man was reported for molesting his 4-year-old daughter, relatives gave police an inside edge — a video recording — to help prove an often-difficult...
by PERL | Aug 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
This story was originally published by the Institute for Public Service Reporting on August 4, 2020. More than a decade after DNA was first used to convict an American of rape, testing remained rare in sex crimes investigations in Memphis. Available records indicate...
by PERL | Aug 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
This article was originally published by the Institute for Public Service Reporting on August 4, 2020. Memphis and Tennessee trailed several jurisdictions in developing DNA testing as a standard law enforcement tool. Though states like Florida and Virginia accessed...
by PERL | Aug 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
This story was originally published by the Institute for Public Service Reporting on August 4, 2020. The attack was so vicious even a seen-it-all cop like Cody Wilkerson seemed to recall every agonizing detail years later. “He broke into the house. He put a pillowcase...
