Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Kenyan Journalists Face the Aftermath

By Sherry Ricchiardi

Lucy Anaya was a neophyte reporter in March 2005. Over the years, she covered beauty pageants, body building, women's and children's issues. Her byline often appeared on human-interest stories full of colorful detail.

Before Murder, Failed Safeguards

Monday morning, a female staff member was murdered in her University of Washington office by her ex-boyfriend, against whom she had filed a restraining order. More »

"The End of Murder"

In the LA Weekly, David Zahniser reports on homicide in Los Angeles, and officials' efforts to make the city safer. More »

BTK Killer: Remembering the Victims

By Joe Hight

The Wichita Eagle newsroom recently faced a coverage situation that few newspapers encounter: A serial killer resurfacing many years after his last killing.

The Days After

By Jason Brown, Arnessa Garrett, Claudia Laws, Brittain Quibodeaux Orgeron, and Marsha Sills

A series about the murder of eight women in Louisiana's Acadiana. Originally published in the Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, LA), on Aug. 7, 2005.

The Joseph Palczynski Story

By Linell Smith, Marego Athans, Ann LoLordo, Patricia Meisol, Doug Kapustin, and Joannah Hill

A two-part series from The Baltimore Sun on the lives of six women serially victimized by one man's extremes of physical and psychological abuse.

Loved to Death

By Steve Jackson

The story of a woman stalked, terrorized, and shot by her ex-husband.