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Ramiro Landa is extremely protective of his daughter Crystal, who was 11 when she was pursued by convicted child abductor Jeffrey Jewitt. Jewitt used his car to chase her down an alley behind her Chicago home.

Sex offender’s past shows how easy it is to slip through justice system

May 12, 2019 at 10:43 p.m.

Jeffrey Jewitt's red Nissan Altima slid through the side streets of Chicago's Northwest Side until he spotted his quarry: 11-year-old Crystal Landa walking home alone from St. Constance elementary school.The...

How we did it

May 12, 2019 at 10:43 p.m.

To analyze attempted child abductions by strangers in Chicago and Cook County, the reporters linked computerized police records with court and U.S. Census data. Reporters also pored through thousands of...

Sex offender’s past shows how easy it is to slip through justice system

August 22, 2021 at 11:38 p.m.

Jeffrey Jewitt's red Nissan Altima slid through the side streets of Chicago's Northwest Side until he spotted his quarry: 11-year-old Crystal Landa walking home alone from St. Constance elementary school.The...

How we did it

August 22, 2021 at 11:36 p.m.

To analyze attempted child abductions by strangers in Chicago and Cook County, the reporters linked computerized police records with court and U.S. Census data. Reporters also pored through thousands of...

Convicted child-abductors come from all walks of life

August 22, 2021 at 11:36 p.m.

The offenders convicted in Cook County of stranger child abduction since 2000 ranged from a gang member to a Sunday school teacher, and included a migrant blueberry picker, a forklift...

How suburban police try to solve attempted child abductions by a stranger

May 12, 2019 at 10:43 p.m.

One reason families move to the suburbs is safety. Yet since 2008, at least 123 cases of attempted child abduction by a stranger have shaken suburban Cook County communities from...

Lucero Blanco of Chicago desperately called her mother when a man allegedly tried to lure her into his car as she was walking to school last April. She ran to a nearby home seeking safe haven. A suspect was questioned by police but never charged.

A crime unpunished

May 12, 2019 at 10:43 p.m.

The man in the Chevy Impala tried to stop 15-year-old Lucero Blanco three times before he got out of the car and came after her on foot. Mashing the buttons...

White areas see more arrests for attempted child abduction than minority areas do

May 12, 2019 at 10:43 p.m.

Child abduction attempts by strangers are scattered throughout the city. But in the 407 preliminary Chicago police reports identified by the Tribune since March 2008, the arrest rate was sharply...

How suburban police try to solve attempted child abductions by a stranger

August 22, 2021 at 11:37 p.m.

One reason families move to the suburbs is safety. Yet since 2008, at least 123 cases of attempted child abduction by a stranger have shaken suburban Cook County communities from...

White areas see more arrests for attempted child abduction than minority areas do

August 22, 2021 at 11:37 p.m.

Child abduction attempts by strangers are scattered throughout the city. But in the 407 preliminary Chicago police reports identified by the Tribune since March 2008, the arrest rate was sharply...

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