Investigations

A man who spent 30 years behind bars for a wrongful murder conviction is suing the town of New Milford and two of its former officers for violating his rights. The civil trial began Monday in New Haven federal court. Ricky Birch, 57, is accusing now-retired New Milford police officer Steven Jordan of suppressing evidence during the investigation le...

Reforms to prevent a growing type of electronic financial fraud profiled by NBC Connecticut Investigates has received an audience at the state legislature. Elected leaders on both sides of the aisle have been trying to tackle this growing problem. In February, NBC Connecticut Investigates profiled a pair of cases where people became victims of a ne...

Questions are being raised about pointed comments made by someone who identifies herself as a former Hartford Public Schools employee. During public comment at a school board meeting Feb. 18, she alleged the superintendent of schools asked her for a favor and months later, that employee said she was fired, in part for keeping the favor secret. Jane...

Ashley Phan said she experienced trafficking firsthand. “I’m suffering the consequences of familial child labor trafficking,” Phan said. Erin Langston did, too. “One of my friends, she asked me how many guys I had sex with. And I honestly looked at her and I said, I have no clue,” Langston said. Both of these women were forced and coerced......

A man has been arrested on murder charges in connection to the December death of an inmate at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. State police said 31-year-old Kyle McKinnon is facing charges after allegedly killing his cellmate, 26-year-old Kenneth Montaner-Buscampbell. McKinnon was arrested on Friday. Staff members said they f...

After months of hearings, Ledyard planning and zoning commissioners have denied permission for an excavation operation in the Gales Ferry section of town. The planning and zoning commission voted Thursday against a request for a special use permit and site plan approval by Gales Ferry Intermodal to blast, crush, and remove rock from a piece of...

Stop signs are self-explanatory – they spell out what you’re supposed to do when you encounter one. In practice, drivers are not always following the letter of the law. NBC Connecticut Investigates looked into the frequency of crashes at stop sign intersections and found out, it hasn’t really been studied. So we put some intersections to the ...

Bridgeport police have looked at tens of thousands of video clips since September. The videos were captured by cameras on the school district’s 248 buses, which are also outfitted with license plate readers. The city took action after a pilot program showed drivers failing to stop for school buses at a rate of about 75 violations per weekday. Sen. ...

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 ...