Melissa Blasius
Investigative Content Manager at KNXV-TV (Phoenix, AZ)
ABC15 Senior Investigative Reporter. I have a million questions. Email tips: [email protected] 🎙️📺📹
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1 week ago |
abc15.com | Melissa Blasius
New details are emerging about the prior victimization of Emily Pike, an Arizona teen who was found murdered in February. Federal law enforcement agents told ABC15 this week they investigated two sexual assault allegations from Emily in 2023. Shortly after the second report, San Carlos Apache tribal social service workers took custody of Emily. She spent the next 18 months in foster care, including a Mesa group home, before she ran away in January 2025. Her body was found near Globe on February 14.
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2 weeks ago |
kgun9.com | Melissa Blasius
In July 2023, Emily Pike reported she was sexually assaulted while living on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in eastern Arizona, according to relatives and law enforcement sources. The ABC15 investigators are looking into the criminal investigation, which occurred 18 months before Emily's disappearance and murder. Federal law enforcement agents say the 2023 sex crime case got a "full investigation," but federal prosecutors say the case files were never submitted for a charging decision.
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2 weeks ago |
abc15.com | Melissa Blasius
In July 2023, Emily Pike reported she was sexually assaulted while living on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in eastern Arizona, according to relatives and law enforcement sources. The ABC15 investigators are looking into the criminal investigation, which occurred 18 months before Emily's disappearance and murder. Federal law enforcement agents say the 2023 sex crime case got a "full investigation," but federal prosecutors say the case files were never submitted for a charging decision.
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2 weeks ago |
abc15.com | Melissa Blasius
MESA, AZ — A Mesa birthing center has promised changes after state regulators found the center failed to ensure staff properly monitored fetal heartbeat in at least one case. As the ABC15 Investigators previously reported, Willow Midwife Center for Birth & Wellness has faced two wrongful death lawsuits in the last year. Arizona Department of Health Services regulators inspected Willow in February of this year.
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3 weeks ago |
abc15.com | Melissa Blasius
PHOENIX — A former Arizona Cardinals football player says police wrongfully targeted him as a shooting suspect. Wesley Leasy, 53, said he was picking up his daughter from Sky Harbor Airport when they were surrounded at gunpoint, forced to lie on the ground, and handcuffed. Leasy played linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals from 1995 to 1996. He runs a Scottsdale construction company, and he ran for state legislature in 2022.
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