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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At the site where Beth Ann Patterson Brown was found

6 days ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

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

6 days 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

2 weeks 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

3 weeks 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

1 month 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

2 months ago | 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.
Greenman takes Niagara County public defender job after complaints, investigation cause leadership change

2 months ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

For more than four decades, Herbert L. Greenman represented accused drug kingpins; con artists and fraudsters who stole millions; crooked politicians, business people and cops. Greenman was one of Buffalo’s most high-profile defense lawyers. Now at age 78, he’s made a major career move, taking over an office that defends thousands of people who cannot afford to hire attorneys. After a leadership shakeup in the office, Greenman on March 1 became Niagara County’s chief public defender.
Migrant crime wave? Experts and statistics tell a different story

2 months ago | buffalonews.com | Dan Herbeck

When a nervous and shell-shocked Rubens Mukunzi arrived in the United States 13 years ago, the last thing he wanted was any kind of trouble with the law. Mukunzi grew up in the African nation of Rwanda. As a teenager during the 1990s, he watched family members and close friends die during a genocide that took an estimated 800,000 to 1 million lives.