Slavery is alive and well in the land of the free. With human trafficking now a multi-billion-dollar industry worldwide and cases increasing in the United States, activists are trying to squash the myth that most women who work as prostitutes do so because they want to. “Prostitution isn’t people deferring entrance to Yale while they … Continue reading Human Trafficking Is an Epidemic in the U.S. It’s Also Big Business
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Troubled Water: An Outlawed Gasoline Additive is Poisoning LI’s Water Supply
There is a constant hum at the corner of Armstrong Road and Park Avenue, not out of place among the electric and steel companies that make up the industrial side streets of Garden City Park. But it isn’t the sound of electric generators or the engines of machinery that can be heard above rush hour … Continue reading Troubled Water: An Outlawed Gasoline Additive is Poisoning LI’s Water Supply
Getting Away With Murder: Without a Serial Killer, Dead Prostitutes Just Don’t Matter
There are 23 miles and five parkways between the door of the Holiday Inn Express in Hauppauge—the door Megan Waterman walked through for the last time before she disappeared from the view of surveillance cameras on June 6, 2010—to the orange arrows spray painted on Ocean Parkway where her body was found on a snowy, … Continue reading Getting Away With Murder: Without a Serial Killer, Dead Prostitutes Just Don’t Matter
Do You Know John Doe? Giving Unidentified Murder Victims Back Their Names
The horn blows. Then a puff of smoke. It’s 6 a.m. and already 84 degrees on Fordham Street. Officers, black faceless silhouettes in the early morning sun, line the pier, a dead end area off-limits to the public. They wait, pacing at the water’s edge. Then a rumble from behind. A white truck barrels through … Continue reading Do You Know John Doe? Giving Unidentified Murder Victims Back Their Names
Holocaust Museum Remembers: It Didn’t Begin With the Killing
She’s the first picture you see when you walk in, a little girl not more than 4 years old with her classmates in Poland, the only girl in an all-boys school. “There I am, the little girl with a bunch of boys,” says Lillian Gewirtzman, now 75, smiling. “These schools were only for boys. It … Continue reading Holocaust Museum Remembers: It Didn’t Begin With the Killing
Still Looking for Judy: One Woman’s Quest to Find Her Missing Sister
As FBI helicopters were conducting flyovers of Jones Beach Island and a dive team scoured the bottom of Hemlock Cove this past April searching for more possible bodies along Ocean Parkway where 10 sets of human remains were found, at least four of which are believed to be the victims of the same killer, Maureen … Continue reading Still Looking for Judy: One Woman’s Quest to Find Her Missing Sister
Vigils, Shock in Connecticut After School Shooting
Candlelight vigils and packed prayer services sprung up at neighborhood churches Friday evening to honor the 20 schoolchildren and six adults gunned down earlier that morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Conn. State Police Lt. Paul Lance said at an 8 p.m. news briefing that he was “cautiously optimistic” about positively identifying by Saturday the victims and … Continue reading Vigils, Shock in Connecticut After School Shooting
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Jaclyn Gallucci is a New York-based journalist who has been featured in/on Investigation Discovery, TLC, National Public Radio, CTV, GQ, A&E, Cengage Learning, Columbia Journalism Review and CrimeFeed.com.
Lost Girls: When Women Disappear, Some Matter, Prostitutes Don’t
There is a crude 2-foot-deep hole is carved into the earth at the end of a jagged downhill path of tangled brush just off the Long Island Expressway service road in Medford. The hum of rush-hour traffic can just about be heard through the thick of trees. It’s been five months since a young woman’s … Continue reading Lost Girls: When Women Disappear, Some Matter, Prostitutes Don’t
Elie Wiesel Addresses Anti-Semitism at Cooper Union
On Monday, on the very same Cooper Union stage where Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of genocide in September, Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel railed against anti-Semitism in front of a rapt audience. Mr. Wiesel—the author of 57 books, including Night, which is based on his experiences surviving Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps—was … Continue reading Elie Wiesel Addresses Anti-Semitism at Cooper Union
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