Ian Shapira

Jan 15, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

Exclusive Jeff Taylor went from the pulpit to the Red Cross to a college nonprofit. Now, his alleged victims are speaking out, and the FBI is investigating. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Story by Ian ShapiraVideos by Reshma Kirpalani One weekend in early 1991, Jeff Taylor, the youth minister at a centuries-old church catering to Washington's elite, invited a boy in his congregation to a religious retreat in Illinois.

Jun 4, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

Charles Lamosway does not make a great first impression. In the opening pages of Morgan Talty’s debut novel, “Fire Exit,” the White narrator confesses to the creepy habit of sitting outside his home and watching a young woman who lives on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. “I was waiting, as I usually did,” Charles says. “Soon, across the river and on the reservation, my girl — a woman by that point — came out of the house and got in her car to go to work.

Mar 31, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

When Chuck Meire and Shawn Weneta gained seats on the board of directors at Assisting Families of Inmates, the men were galvanized by the Virginia nonprofit’s mission. But shortly after they joined in 2021, the unlikely duo — Meire, then a Harvard graduate student and Weneta, a recently pardoned felon — came to believe that their organization wasn’t living up to its namesake.

Dec 29, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

CommentSaveThe family of three in Northeast Washington was about to leave for a Super Bowl party in Dupont Circle. But at the last minute, Rachel Ryan, 34, decided to grab some essentials at a liquor store a few blocks away. A bottle of red. Chips and dip. Orange juice and gummy bears for her then-1-year-old son, Julian. Ryan and her husband, Charlie McKell, 33, were expecting a carefree nightFeb. 12, right up until she walked home. Ryan reached the crosswalk at Florida Avenue and Quincy Place NW.

Dec 16, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Shapira

CommentSaveThe 91-year-old former CIA station chief in Tehran, seated in his living room in McLean, Va., glanced at his upturned palms. The bruises from his time as a hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran faded long ago. But memories of his captor pelting his hands with a rubber hose still flickered. For half an hour, his principal interrogator and others insisted that he confess that he was a CIA spy.