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Public Schools Mainstream Registered Sex Offenders

Hundreds of teenagers, convicted of felony sex crimes, are attending middle and high schools throughout Washington. KIRO Team 7 Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne is doing something that's never been done: Show where juvenile sex offenders go to class with your kids because the school districts never will. UPDATE: Teen Sex ...

Prolific Serial Burglar Lands City Job

KIRO Team 7 Investigators have discovered a career criminal, nicknamed "the obituary burglar," is out of prison and into a new job.It's one that has victims, police and taxpayers alike shaking their heads in disbelief.Now, Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne reveals who hired a 22-time felon to work around senior citizens.Terry ...

Abuse And Death At Rainier School

Two employees of the Rainier School at Buckley have been arrested after video shot by undercover KIRO 7 Eyewitness News crews shows state employees allegedly mistreating vulnerable clients at the school for the disabled.Police expect to make one more arrest in the case, which is the result of work by ...

Monkey Boiled Alive At Research Lab

A monkey, slotted to be used in a drug-product research experiment, was instead boiled alive inside an Everett laboratory, a KIRO Team 7 Investigation found.It's a deadly error, but not the first one KIRO Team 7 Investigators uncovered at SNBL USA.That company is near the Boeing Plant off Merrill Creek ...

Team 7 Investigation Unravels Secret Life Of Missing Man

The hunt for a missing state employee -- presumed dead after hiking off into the woods two years ago -- is still active, and there's good reason.Both his family and law enforcement agents tell KIRO Team 7 Investigators that Gilbert Gilman might still be alive.Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne has unraveled ...

RV Crash Deaths Under Investigation

Braking problems, collapsing walls and poorly secured cabinets: These are the RV industry's deadliest secrets.We know because KIRO Team 7 Investigators just spent months analyzing hundreds of fatal luxury motor home crashes both nationwide and here in the Pacific Northwest.Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne exposes how some loose safety standards are ...

King County Trades Human Brains For Money

The King County Medical Examiner's Office has been harvesting brains from the corpses of mentally ill clients and quietly trading the tissue for money, KIRO Team 7 Investigators reported.In the past seven years, the medical examiner's office received more than $1 million for collecting brains of people with schizophrenia.In return ...

Bundy Confession Tapes Revealed For The First Time

It's a haunting voice from beyond the grave: Serial killer Ted Bundy tells all, and you'll hear it for the first time.KIRO Team 7 Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne recently obtained nearly four hours of raw, uncensored audio cassettes of Bundy taped just before his execution. Uncensored Audio Tapes WARNING: audio ...

D.A.: Local Woman Helped Lure Broadway Producer's Rape Victims

A Federal Way woman has been charged with helping a famous Broadway producer and songwriter rape young actresses.Joseph Brooks was best known for writing the song "You Light up My Life," a number one hit in the 1970s.New York detectives on Tuesday arrested Brooks, accusing him of 91 felony and ...

Loophole Lets Foreign Drivers Skip Paying Tickets

An exclusive KIRO Team 7 Investigation cracks open an international controversy -- uncovering how thousands of foreign drivers break our traffic laws with zero consequence.DUI, reckless endangerment, speeding -- you name it -- they get away with it. We begin as Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne unravels a violent hit-and-run in ...

Study Showing No Lead In Books Mostly Done In China

KIRO Team 7 Investigators had no trouble finding library books that contain hazardous levels of lead.Now our positive test results are causing concern from coast-to-coast, not only with parents, but with book publishers and libraries.As of this year, Congress wants kids books tested for lead.Major book manufacturers like Disney and ...

Library Conduct Violations Reach All-Time High

The City of Seattle has been cracking down on bad behavior at its libraries, and there doesn't appear to be any shortage of it.KIRO Team 7 Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne discovered security has already ejected 432 patrons in the first four months this year for offenses like assault, drug dealing, ...

Teen Huffing Law, Many Other Bills, Can't Get Hearings

A proposed law that would make it a crime to sell nitrous oxide canisters, or whippets, to teenagers so they can get high has died in a legislative committee.The bill was written following a Team 7 hidden-camera investigation conducted last fall. We videotaped store clerks marketing a nitrous gas delivery ...

Rapid Rise in Some WASL Scores Suspicious

Earlier this week, KIRO Team 7 Investigators proved how a little, flagrant cheating on the WASL can dramatically improve scores.Now, Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne exposes other forms of manipulation that may go undetected and ignored.In hopes of bringing those to light, KIRO Team 7 Investigators set up a unique computer ...

The Suicide Bed: A Cover-Up At Western State Mental Hospital

Western State Hospital handed a mentally ill man the means to kill himself, then tried to cover up a series of embarrassing mistakes that led to his death.Those are the results of a six-month, exclusive KIRO Team 7 Investigation.Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne acquired some rare videotape, along with other previously ...

Medicine Mistake Kills Disabled Patient At Rainier School

Our year-long hidden camera investigation into the state-run Rainier School for the Disabled has already revealed terrifying physical abuses and an orchestrated cover-up regarding a client's death.Now, KIRO Team 7 Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne discovers yet another fatal accident; this one involving a psychotropic drug.50-year-old Kent Zimbelman had been institutionalized ...

Sound Transit Ignores Auditor Warning, Gives To Charity

The State Auditor has concluded that Sound Transit violated the law by donating money to several local, non-profit organizations.That conclusion comes on the heels of an exclusive KIRO Team 7 Investigation into how transit money sometimes gets handed out to charity.Sound Transit has basically said regardless of what State Auditor ...

Ferry Workers Throw Recycled Material, Disable Security Devices

Washington state ferry workers are intentionally throwing away tons of recycled goods, even after commuters are tricked into carefully separating everything into bins.KIRO Team 7 Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne set up an undercover sting to expose the environmentally unfriendly deception."Recycling. So simple it works!" That's the fancy logo painted on ...

Botched Mercury Spill Cleanup Endangers City Workers

Seattle City Light spilled a large quantity of highly toxic, liquid mercury, then botched the cleanup and failed to report it.Now, because of a KIRO Team 7 Investigation into the incident, those actions are at the center of a federal probe.Employees familiar with the event tell Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne ...

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