CRIME DOCKET
Every case has a story. Most people never read them. We do.
Reporting built from the file, not from other coverage.
How we work
We don’t retell cases. We send for the file. The arrest affidavit, the trial transcript, the recorded interview, the police report that becomes public the day a case closes: we request them from the agencies that hold them, we pay the fees, and we build the story out of what comes back.
Every claim points at a page. When the record is silent we say so instead of filling the gap with mood, and when an agency stalls or brushes us off, that becomes a story too. Our standards are short and public, and so is our corrections policy.
From the Records Desk
Reporting built from records we obtained ourselves, and dispatches from the requests that got them.
- Orange County Sheriff Closes Sarah Boone Records Request as ‘Not a Public Records Request’
Hours after receiving a Chapter 119 request for the closed Sarah Boone homicide file, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office closed it with a one-line reason and no cited exemption. Crime Docket has asked the office to reopen it. - Las Vegas Police Withhold the Jeff German Case File Two Years After Robert Telles’s Conviction
LVMPD answered a public-records request for the Telles investigation with a form ‘open investigation’ withholding letter. Crime Docket has filed a renewed request under NRS Chapter 239. - The House Remembered: The Record Behind Our Richard Dabate Documentary
How the arrest-warrant timeline, the interrogation, the 2022 trial and the Connecticut Supreme Court’s 2025 opinion fit together – the sourcing behind Crime Docket’s documentary on the Connie Dabate case.
Latest reporting
- Orange County Sheriff Closes Sarah Boone Records Request as ‘Not a Public Records Request’Hours after receiving a Chapter 119 request for the closed Sarah Boone homicide file, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office closed it with a one-line reason and no cited exemption. Crime Docket has asked the office to reopen it.
- Las Vegas Police Withhold the Jeff German Case File Two Years After Robert Telles’s ConvictionLVMPD answered a public-records request for the Telles investigation with a form ‘open investigation’ withholding letter. Crime Docket has filed a renewed request under NRS Chapter 239.
- The House Remembered: The Record Behind Our Richard Dabate DocumentaryHow the arrest-warrant timeline, the interrogation, the 2022 trial and the Connecticut Supreme Court’s 2025 opinion fit together – the sourcing behind Crime Docket’s documentary on the Connie Dabate case.
- IAFIS Fingerprint Match Solves 33-Year-Old Omaha Cold Case
Within five hours of uploading digitized latent prints to the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System IAFIS, the Omaha Police Department’s Cold Case Unit generated a primary suspect profile that had eluded investigators for over - KSP Crime Lab Results Pending in 2023 Meade County Murder
More than 32 months after deputies responded to an Old Mill Road residence, investigators remain dependent on pending forensic analysis from the Kentucky State Police KSP Forensic Lab to advance the Meade County murder investigation of Rhonda Aeberso - Fingerprint and DNA Evidence Break Cesar Sayoc Pipe Bomb Case
A single latent fingerprint an invisible friction ridge impression left by sweat and oil recovered from a manila envelope proved to the catalyst in the nationwide 2018 pipe bomb investigation. According to an October 26, 2018, Department of Justice p
Everyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until a court says otherwise. Charges are allegations, and we write them that way. If you are named in our reporting and want to respond, the Corrections page is the door.
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