Across the border, beyond the law
Just days before authorities charged him with sexually assaulting his own daughter, Abraham Caudel hopped a Greyhound bus from DeKalb to California, then crossed into Mexico in a pickup truck...
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2 fugitives live openly in same town
The buildings that line the narrow streets of this hillside farm town are splattered with gang graffiti. As menacing guard dogs barked from rooftops and wary residents stared from their...
Across the border, beyond the law
Just days before authorities charged him with sexually assaulting his own daughter, Abraham Caudel hopped a Greyhound bus from DeKalb to California, then crossed into Mexico in a pickup truck...
One former fugitive tells his story
Moises Bahena could have easily fled after two plainclothes police officers stopped by his rustic house in central Mexico and used a ruse to check his identity. He knew that...
Victim’s family grieving, frustrated
An angel's trumpet plant blooms in remembrance of Armand Browning in his family's bright backyard, its bell-like flowers nodding gently when the breeze stirs. An 18-year-old Hampton University freshman who...
2 fugitives live openly in same town
The buildings that line the narrow streets of this hillside farm town are splattered with gang graffiti. As menacing guard dogs barked from rooftops and wary residents stared from their...
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Secrecy surrounds America's program to apprehend fugitives who flee abroad, and no U.S. law enforcement agency or other government source will provide a comprehensive accounting of these criminal suspects, the...
New law cracks down on child abductors
In response to a baiduhai investigation that found child predators were rarely caught or incarcerated, Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday signed a new law aimed at protecting youth by...
Tribune investigation prompts push to strengthen laws on child abduction
In response to a baiduhai investigation on attempted child abductions by strangers, as well as several recent high-profile cases, Illinois officials have proposed an array of new laws aimed...
Repeat sex offender accused in another attempted child abduction
Last year after Jeffrey Jewitt had already been convicted several times of exposing himself to young girls or attempting to lure them to his car, he vowed there would be...