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Shannon Dooling

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investigative reporter/storyteller @WBUR @NPR @propublica | teaching @ComatBU | #immigration + #criminaljustice = my jam but I’ll dig anywhere |srd415@bu.edu
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In unsolved murder cases, families go years without updates

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By Shannon Dooling, Gabrielle Gagnon, Julia Goujiamanis Verified, Faith Imafidon, Eva Liu
| WBUR News Verified
For years, Michelle Thomas has tracked her calls to law enforcement for updates on her son’s murder case. “No answer” is scrawled next to many of the entries in her handwritten log. Her son, Carl Sepheus Jr., was shot and killed leaving a friend’s house in 2018 not far from her home in Springfield. “I need help with getting justice,” Thomas said. “My child's life was taken, and it is not fair.” Sepheus’ death is one of hundreds of unsolved homicides in Massachusetts.
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Plymouth jail complaints reveal pattern of abuse against ICE detainees, report claims

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By Shannon Dooling
| WBUR News Verified
Citing two decades-worth of complaints about overcrowding, inadequate health care and other mistreatment, a new report alleges Plymouth County Correctional Facility staffers engaged in a pattern of abuse against immigrant detainees. Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts and Boston University School of Law’s Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program based their report, released Monday, on records of complaints and violations dating as far back as 2002.
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A family's peace | Part III

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By Shannon Dooling
| WBUR-FM (Boston, MA) Verified
On a sunny Saturday in 2016, Benine Timothee left her house to visit a friend who lived close by and never returned. She had lived in the United States for only three months when she was shot and killed outside a corner store in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. No arrests have been made, and there are no suspects in the case.
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