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RSS FeedWAVE News Troubleshooters Natalia Martinez and John Boel discuss how to move the LMPD forward after the chief resigns and sexual harassment lawsuits emerge.
WAVE News Troubleshooters Natalia Martinez and John Boel preview the WAVE Originals ’23 Seconds: The Louisville Mass Shooting’, a documentary on the tragedy at Old National Bank.
WAVE News Troubleshooters Natalia Martinez and John Boel discuss a lawsuit filed against the store that sold the weaponry used in the mass shooting at Old National Bank.
After multiple investigations exposing the dangerous condition inside of Louisville’s jail, Troubleshooter Natalia Martinez checks back on the facility. She sits down with the new director for a brutally honest talk about the challenges he faced, the lives that were lost and the lives that are now being saved.
In this episode of Behind the Investigation, WAVE Troubleshooter Natalia Martinez sits down with the lead detective of the Brice Rhodes triple murder case.
Louisville Homicide Detective Aaron Tinelli gives insight into his mind after getting the call, processing the scene and interviewing Brice Rhodes.
A lot is going on outside University Hospital, a level-one trauma center. Medical helicopters, ambulances, police, even arrests. But on Oct. 4 at dusk, something else caught the eye of an arriving ambulance crew.
WAVE News Troubleshooter John Boel takes you inside his undercover investigations into suspected drug houses in Louisville. He walks you through his methods, training, and the safety precautions he takes. He also details how police respond to complaints about drugs and violence in the neighborhoods he investigates.
It is one of the most traumatic experiences a person out on the town can experience, yet investigating date-rape cases is extremely difficult. WAVE News troubleshooter Natalia Martinez investigates Nowhere Bar to see if they were holding true to their promise of keeping customers safe.
This story began December 1 at 5 p.m. with a phone call to our newsroom from a horrified University Hospital employee. The employee claimed security had just wheeled an elderly woman all the way out to the corner of Hancock and Ali, just off hospital property, dumped the woman out of the wheelchair on the sidewalk and left.
Gary Thompson doesn’t like talking to me anymore. To understand why, we have to go back to 2014.
“I appreciate you guys busting me,” Thompson said. “Y’all really good at it. I average about $100,000 a year doing this.”
While Lexington police held a press conference to warn people about a guy faking a mental disability act to rake in big bucks, that guy was demonstrating it right outside.
“Mm... mm... money,” Thompson stuttered, then smiled and straightened up. “I gotta go y’all, gotta make some money.”
He was jailed and chased out of places all around Kentucky and earned the nickname, “The Bogus Beggar.”
“If you can help me whenever I ask for money I won’t act mental,” Thompson said in a story that aired years ago.