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The Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio

In 32 seconds, everything changed 
Thirty-two seconds is too fast to fill your gas tank or reboot your computer or properly brush your teeth.  And yet, 32 seconds was enough time for a 24-year-old man to kill nine people in Dayton, Ohio. Link. 

Fifth Third Shooting
Three were killed and two more wounded when a gunman opened fire in downtown Cincinnati. Amber helped uncover that the slain suspect's family had tried repeatedly to get him mental health help. Link. Video.

Aftermath
Amber travels the country talking to people whose lives changed in the blink of an eye. Their backgrounds, environments and stories all vary, but they share one defining truth: They've survived a gunshot. Reported in collaboration with The Trace. Link.

Accused: The Unsolved Murder of Retha Welch
William Virgil spent 27 years in prison for killing a Newport, Kentucky, prison minister. After DNA testing leads to Virgil's release, police and prosecutors still insist they got the right guy. But did they? Apple Podcasts link. 

Accused: The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes
Police decided the jury got it wrong when it acquitted Elizabeth Andes' boyfriend of killing her in 1978. The Enquirer investigates: Did a killer walk free? Link.

Ordinary people, extraordinary violence
In March 2017, 17 people were shot -- one fatally -- at the Cameo nightclub in Cincinnati. One woman celebrating her 29th birthday got out alive by using a stranger as a human shield. Link. 

90 charges but never a weapon
What the arrest record of a Cincinnati man killed by a police officer tells us about him -- and the cops. Link. 

Sam DuBose's family left to wrestle with its loss
Before DuBose was killed by University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing, he was a family-minded, fun-loving father who hosted talent contests in his living room. Link.

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Secretive church at heart of $1M mystery
This is a story about a man who’s now dead, his pastor wife, their secretive church, their historic Mount Lookout home and an influential state legislator who is either an accomplice or a victim, depending on whom you believe. Link.

Petland accused of selling sick, dying puppies
An Enquirer investigation uncovers how deep-pocketed conservative groups and a powerful lobbyist worked behind the scenes to strip language from a puppy-mill bill that would have included pet stores in its regulations. Link.

Erectile dysfunction clinics run by convict
A national chain of ED clinics is run by a man who spent time in federal prison for fraud and who's been called a scam artist and a con man by the Federal Trade Commission, an Enquirer investigation has found. Link. 
  • Follow-up: Cincinnati doctors running ED clinic could lose medical licenses. Link.
Ominous warnings, then a gunfight
Cincinnati Police Officer Sonny Kim was the first city officer killed in the line of fire in 15 years. Link.

The Associated Press
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Future unknown for South Dakota ghost town
This tiny exclave just west of South Dakota's badlands is officially an old ghost town. But its future is shrouded in new mystery. Link.

Search for dark matter takes shape in shuttered gold mine
Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe. Link.​

Baby on board
Lessons learned traveling to Puerto Rico with baby. Link.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan

A fresh start
Fresh Start is a 2-year-old program -- the first of its kind in the country -- designed to get prostitutes off the streets of Wayne County and onto paths toward better lives. For more than a year, Free Press reporter Amber Hunt and photographer Susan Tusa followed the progress of those in the program and those trying to help them.
  • PART I: A Wayne County rehabilitation program is giving women caught in a cycle of drugs and prostitution a way out. Link.
  • PART II: Drug nightmare ends, life begins. Link.

Stephen Grant's confession
Macomb County man says he snapped, then started choking his wife. The dismemberment came later. Link.

Demon voice led Jennifer Kukla to kill, psychiatrist says
She waited on her porch for a car made of bones to come and take her to hell. Link.

Comforting families torn by murder
​Chaplains help where police officers can't. Link.

Cheers to Belize
Everybody knows your name on tiny, friendly Caye Caulker. Link.

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