Dan Herbeck

3 days 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.

1 week 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.

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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.