The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services for weeks has repeatedly refused to release a timeline detailing its ...

A powerful new docuseries premiering August 2 on National Geographic takes viewers into the emotional, high-stakes world of ...

On Thursday, the Will County Coroner's Office released the name of the woman who was murdered in the county in 1968.

Criminal justice students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the Illinois State Police are partnering to solve local cold cases, and some of that work has already paid off. “The ...

Authorities in Missouri say DNA samples have solved a 1994 cold case, identifying a man's body found in the Mississippi River ...

Last fall, a criminal justice student at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville reviewed the unsolved case of Truman Lee Smith, a trucker shot to death 14 years ago. The student organized files ...

BELLEVILLE - The Illinois State Police (ISP) and students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) have partnered ...

Mackenzi Felmlee fell through the safety net of doctors, judges, lawyers, social workers, teachers, child welfare ...

A collaboration between the Illinois State Police (ISP) and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is advancing ...

Mackenzi Felmlee died after she was found struggling to breathe, bruised and dehydrated at the bottom of the basement stairs in a Fairview Heights foster home. Four years later, the Illinois ...

There are two public reports that mention Mackenzi’s death — the DCFS Office of the Inspector General Annual Report to the ...

The Illinois Housing Development Authority is planning to sell $350 million in social bonds to finance mortgage-backed securities, down payment assistance and refinancing existing mortgage loans.