Crime

City crime lab director fired

City crime lab director fired

Baltimore crime analysts have been contaminating evidence with their own DNA -- a revelation that led to the dismissal this week of the city Police Department's crime lab director, Edgar Koch, and raised questions about the state's biggest and busiest crime lab.

Sun special report: A trail of deception

Sun special report: A trail of deception

Cindy McKay, a 52-year-old career thief and mother of six, was convicted in April 2008 of secretly stealing thousands of dollars from her boyfriend and stabbing him to death before his body was found burning along an Anne Arundel County road.

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Sun coverage: 3 children drowned at hotel

Hotel slayings

Coverage of the deaths of three young children who were drowned in a bathtub at Baltimore's Marriott Hotel on March 29, 2008. The children's father, Mark Castillo, admitted to the killings and has been charged.

Sun coverage: Cockeysville family killed

The Browning family

Sun coverage of the fatal shootings of four members of a Cockeysville family; a fifth member of the family, a 15-year-old honor student, has been charged with the killings.

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2008 city homicides

Homicides since Jan. 1: 149

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Sun coverage: Confronting crime

Sun coverage: Confronting crime

Even amid signs of progress, Baltimore struggles with an increase in killings that has cast a shadow over the city