Police accused her of making up her rape, then destroyed the evidence
A CNN survey in 2018 found that police at dozens of agencies nationwide had trashed 400 rape kits in cases that could have been prosecuted. August 11, 2022WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. — Gretchen Van Winkle was transfixed as the hit Netflix series...
Court filing accuses police captain of evidence mishandling
Bauserman was accused of a “lack of accountability, process failures, lack of purging, failure to hold staff accountable and failure to document or process by policy.” June 14, 2021WINCHESTER — The city’s police chief and commonwealth’s...
Judge rules against dismissed police officer
September 19, 2021WINCHESTER — A Winchester Circuit Court judge has ruled against a former city police officer who claimed he was unfairly disciplined and subsequently fired over his job performance.In a ruling filed this week, Judge Bruce D. Albertson said the...
State police decline prosecutor’s request to probe Petersburg detective’s misplaced evidence
It’s just somebody not following the policies and procedures of their agency,” police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said. “That’s not criminal. That’s administrative violations.” September 4, 2021State police have declined...
