Investigations

Reckless on our Roads is a series that looks into why Connecticut’s roads have gotten more dangerous, and what’s being done to stop it. We started working on our first story back in 2023 – and much of the behavior we saw then is still happening today. How many times have you come home from work frustrated about getting cut…...

Our state seems to have gone in the wrong direction when it comes to traffic fatalities, with 328 last year – our second highest total ever. NBC Connecticut Investigates has found at least one place which appears to have got it right. Chief Investigator Len Besthoff traveled to New Jersey to learn what one city’s secret sauce is, in the&#8230...

A woman who reported to police she was sexually assaulted saw her attacker get sentenced, more than five years after the crime. It’s a follow up to an NBC Connecticut investigation from last fall – on a tough subject – looking at the low percentage of sexual assault convictions in our state. Abby Prospere, 25, breathed a sigh of relief&...

Non-U.S. citizens sometimes seek citizenship to avoid persecution in their native countries. It’s called seeking asylum. Research shows wide differences in the asylum denial rate by judges in federal immigration cases. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University found courts with the highest range in asylum denial w...

This week, NBC Connecticut Investigates told you about a new kind of crime happening called “pig butchering” – where police say online predators overseas have lured investors here into fraudulent schemes – and they have lost thousands of dollars. It turns out the same day our report was airing, police in another town made an ...

Ever hear of “pig butchering?” Probably not. It has been characterized as an international financial fraud scheme that has drained millions of dollars from people’s hard-earned savings, including some from Connecticut. It likely won’t go away anytime soon since most of the bad actors are oceans away.  The phrase “pig butchering” comes from the...

President Donald Trump’s pardon of Jan. 6 defendants includes 11 Connecticut residents. NBC Connecticut confirmed with the Federal Bureau of Prisons that Patrick McCaughey, of Ridgefield, was no longer in custody Tuesday. He was serving a 90-month sentence for assaulting Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2...

NBC Connecticut Investigates has learned of an under the radar company that was operating in Rocky Hill, with investigators making an unusual discovery inside the business. At this point, the business is no longer at the business park where a disturbance last weekend prompted a call to police. Police reports say a New York-based company called UniU...

Old Saybrook released the findings of an outside firm hired to determine why the town’s police department has trouble retaining officers. The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) said this is one of the most challenging management studies it has ever conducted. “Basic procedural issues that are typically handled without complication….were fraught...

State leaders are reviewing lessons learned after a disruptive outage impacted 911 service. Back on Oct. 22, a large phone network in Connecticut failed. A statewide alert went out to use non-emergency numbers, or text to 911. That spurred people to test the system, causing a near 600% spike in text to 911 volume, impairing the 911 centers. The sta...

Our state has remained on a near record pace for pedestrian deaths, but an effort has been mounted to help. Across our state, towns have taken advantage of state and federal programs to add, enhance and improve their sidewalks – one of the most low-tech methods of making things safer for pedestrians. For as long as folks can remember, the&#82...

While residential electric bills went up 20, 30, even 40 percent in the last several months, some small business owners have seen their bills jump 50 percent or more. Leed Himmel Industries in Hamden makes a variety of aluminum products in an operation that requires a lot of power. “We’ll use about a million and a half kilowatt hours this…...

Opponents of a large industrial project in the Gales Ferry section of Ledyard got to have their say Thursday night at a long-awaited public hearing. Up until this point, the company proposing the excavation of a portion of Mount Decatur provided a majority of the testimony. The company has asked the town planning and zoning board for a modification...