Dan Herbeck

Buffalo

Investigative Reporter at Buffalo News

Investigative reporter at The Bflo News since 1977. Co-author of American Terrorist, NY Times bestseller about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing.

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Articles

Author event on Thursday will benefit West Side Rowing Club

2 weeks ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our Podcasts Author Maura Casey, a Buffalo native and former editorial writer for the New York Times, will speak about her book, “Saving Ellen, A Memoir of Hope and Recovery," at 8 p.m. Thursday at the West Side Rowing Club's Frank Lloyd Wright Fontana Boathouse, 1 Rotary Row, in Buffalo. The author will sell and sign books at the event, and a portion of sales proceeds will benefit the rowing club.
After crash involving a police car, Grand Island settled suits for nearly $1M. Taxpayers were kept in the dark

2 weeks ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

Early on the afternoon of July 14, 2022, the driver of a Grand Island police car allegedly ran a red light and crashed violently into a van, seriously injuring the van’s 77-year-old driver and also injuring a passenger, her 81-year-old husband. Global positioning data from a black box in the police car showed that Officer Thomas J. Franz, who was on his way to a service call, was driving his vehicle at over 63 mph when it hit the van, well above the posted speed limit, court records show.
At the site where Beth Ann Patterson Brown was found

3 weeks ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

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In Richard Fox’s hometown, police investigate horrific murder from 1978

3 weeks ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

BROCTON – Even a small, mostly rural village like Brocton has its hot spots. In the 1970s, one of its most popular watering holes was The Castle, an unlikely looking establishment built with stone taken from a centuries-old castle in Scotland. On a Sunday night, March 26, 1978, The Castle was crowded with locals enjoying a few drinks, listening to rock music and having some laughs with friends. Beth Ann Patterson Brown, 29, a divorcee, went to The Castle from her nearby Brocton home to join them.
Skilled courtroom warrior Joel Violanti retires from U.S. Attorney's Office

1 month ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

Joel L. Violanti, a highly respected prosecutor who took on some of the most difficult cases at Buffalo’s federal court, has retired at age 60. Violanti, who overcame partial blindness, excruciating headaches, attention deficit disorder and other challenges to become a top trial attorney, served briefly as Buffalo’s acting U.S. attorney shortly after Donald J. Trump took office as president this year.
Victim describes Richard Fox as 'monster' who began abusing her when she was 3

1 month ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

It’s painful for Tonia Stebbins to discuss the emotions she feels when she sees pictures of accused murderer Richard Fox II on television or in a newspaper. The Chautauqua County woman said she feels anger, disgust, fear and frustration when she thinks about Fox, her “former stepfather” who molested, raped or assaulted her “literally hundreds of times” when he lived with her mother during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Richard Fox has been charged in two homicides. Police think he could be a serial killer

1 month ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

Police say Richard J. Fox II is a twice-convicted violent sex offender who is also accused of murdering two Buffalo women who disappeared and then were strangled nearly two decades apart. He is also under investigation in connection with other unsolved crimes, authorities told The Buffalo News, including the apparent murder of an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found hidden under a stairwell in a Niagara Falls home where Fox used to live.
Erie County hopes to cut skyrocketing cost of free lawyers for 90% of defendants

2 months ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

In Erie County, about nine out of every 10 people charged with crimes are represented by defense attorneys paid for by taxpayers. County officials were outraged when they learned that some attorneys – working as private contractors – were paid $400,000 to $500,000 last year to represent people who said they could not afford to hire their own lawyers. Now, the county is preparing to move many of those cases to a nonprofit agency, the Buffalo Legal Aid Bureau.
Connecticut man travels to Buffalo to thank health workers who saved him

2 months ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

Patrick Raycraft came to downtown Buffalo on Friday to say a giant “thank you” to the people who saved his life last October. Raycraft, 63, is a photojournalist and journalism teacher from Connecticut whose life was saved by doctors, nurses and other emergency medical personnel Oct. 5. He suffered a massive heart attack while riding his bicycle in a fundraising event to benefit the Erie Cattaraugus Rail Trail bike path project.
Wrongful arrest trial from 1976 murder case could cost Erie County millions

Mar 29, 2025 | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck |Sandra Tan

A federal trial is taking a jury back almost 50 years, to a cold winter night when five Buffalo teenagers became the prime suspects in the robbery and murder of a Buffalo man. Accusations of the wrongdoing by Buffalo Police in the arrest and imprisonment of John H. Walker Jr. and Darryl A. Boyd have already cost Buffalo taxpayers $8.7 million.