To Catch a killer

• Autores: Linda Johnson
• Localización: Quill, ISSN 0033-6475, Vol. 93, Nº. 3 (ABR), 2005
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Is there a bigger ethical dilemma than debating what to do when reporter's investigation leads to the location of an escaped murderer? Does that reporter tell all to officials and risk becoming an agent of the police, an arm of an agency the newspaper covers? Or, should the paper grab the headline and story by confronting the suspect, gambling that he won't flee for another 15 years?. Almost three years ago, Linda J. Johnson, a reporter for the Herald-leader in Lexington, was handed a brief that appeared in ther paper. She was to do a story on escaped convicts in Kentucky. However, problems with the web site and a busy schedule forced her to put it on the back burner. Earlier this year, she revised the topic, and just a few days later she had tracked down an escapee in Texas who had been convicted of killing a 10-month-old baby in 1978. Here is how she did it and the ethical dilemmas that arose during the process.