Crime

It was an “everybody remembers where they were” moment. The devastating explosion in a quiet suburb shattered lives. Ten years on, we revisit the tragedy and the people who rose to the occasion in unprecedented ways.

The Rev. Dr. Charles Harrison of Barnes United Methodist Church is one of the founders of Indianapolis Ten Point Coalition, which dates back to the late 1990s as a community group that patrols the streets of high-crime neighborhoods in an attempt to defuse and de-escalate violent crime. As those crime rates creep back toward levels […]

Mears reflects on the city’s homicide problem, decriminalizing marijuana, and the death penalty.

The city’s top cop reflects on recent police shootings, protests, and how his career prepared him for the current crisis.

Red Ball offers little more than a red herring.

Some residents say Ten Point Coalition is diverting resources from longstanding community groups there and claiming victory in an area that remains troubled.

When will the amateur sleuths with professional problems get a clue?

Prime suspects.

How a Zionsville doctor secretly used his own sperm to impregnate more than 50 fertility patients.

Restoration of the historic trestle where the murders occurred is underway. Will resolution follow?

For people living in Indianapolis in 1978, the year must have seemed like the last they’d ever see.

This was the story that “kept circling through my mind.”

Breaking the USA Gymnastics sex-abuse scandal.

Did Cleveland Bynum kill five people? According to a dead man, no.

Jessie Whitehouse was shot in her home last fall, and IMPD hasn’t yet publicly identified a suspect.