Barbara Laker
Investigative Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Investigative Reporter for @PhillyInquirer, co-author of Busted (HarperCollins March 2014), mom of two awesome kids, avid runner
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Barbara Laker
A defense attorney and an inmate’s mother have been arrested and charged with smuggling contraband, including drugs, into a Philadelphia prison where it was given to an inmate. Paul DiMaio, 56, of Turnersville, and Tanya Culver, 55, of North Philadelphia, were each charged with one count of providing contraband to an inmate and aiding and abetting, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said Friday. Just before 11 a.m. on Feb.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
inquirer.com | Barbara Laker
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is investigating the decades-old murder of 5-year-old Marcus Yates to determine whether one of the two men locked up since 1988 was wrongfully convicted. The Inquirer’s six-part investigative narrative, “The Wrong Man,” published Dec. 10, uncovered evidence that Michael Gaynor was not the gunman or even in the Southwest Philadelphia candy store where a July 1988 shootout between two men took the boy’s life.
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Dec 16, 2024 |
centredaily.com | Barbara Laker
In summer 1988, two men started blasting guns at each other in a tiny Southwest Philadelphia candy store, killing 5-year-old Marcus Yates and wounding his brother and another boy. His killing enraged the city and put intense pressure on the police department to find the killers. Detectives locked up two men - Michael Gaynor and Ike Johnson - who were later convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
inquirer.com | Barbara Laker
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Nov 29, 2024 |
centredaily.com | Barbara Laker
A South Jersey police sergeant faces charges of stealing drugs from his department's evidence room after he failed a drug test. Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office announced that on Monday, Hammonton Detective Sgt.
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