Edith Brady-Lunny
CorrespondentEdith began her career as a reporter with The DeWitt County Observer, a weekly newspaper in Clinton. From 2007 to June 2019, Edith covered crime and legal issues for The Pantagraph, a daily newspaper in Bloomington, Illinois. She previously worked as a correspondent for The Pantagraph covering courts and local government issues in central Illinois.
Edith joined WGLT as a correspondent in 2019.
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The state turned over evidence to a Woodford County judge on Friday related to an alleged propensity of a 12-year-old boy to start fires, including an April 2019 blaze that killed five people. -
Lawyers for Bart McNeil asked a judge on Thursday to approve a full evidentiary hearing on McNeil’s innocence claim in the death of his 3-year-old daughter.
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Accusations of child neglect have been proven by the state against a Bloomington mother accused of concealing the death of her infant daughter, a judge ruled on Tuesday in a hearing on the custody of the woman’s two surviving children.
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Speaking publicly for the first time about what went wrong in Rica Rountree's case, prosecutors Erika Reynolds and Mary Koll spoke with WGLT about the failures that led to the ongoing abuse that caused Rica’s fatal internal injuries.
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Bart McNeil is entitled to a thorough review of newly-discovered evidence in the death of his 3-year-old daughter, McNeil’s lawyers argued in a new court filing related to his petition for a new trial on murder charges.
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Aaron Parlier began grooming his piano students for sexual activity when they were as young as 8, a prosecutor said during Parlier’s bench trial on predatory sexual assault and child pornography charges. Parlier was convicted Tuesday on charges that he sexually assaulted a student.
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Former Bloomington piano teacher Aaron Parlier is standing trial on charges that he sexually abused a former student starting when she was 8 years old.
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A Douglas County judge refused to recuse himself on Tuesday in the civil case filed by Alan Beaman, who accuses three now-retired Normal police officers of framing him in the 1993 murder of his former girlfriend, Jennifer Lockmiller.
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Evidence that Christina McNeil was murdered by someone other than her father was challenged on Friday by the state in a motion to dismiss Bart McNeil’s petition for a new trial on charges that he suffocated the 3-year-old.
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Defense lawyer Brian McEldowney told Judge William Workman that a psychiatrist has deemed 29-year-old Kimberlee Burton mentally unfit, meaning she is unable to understand the criminal charges against her and assist with her own defense.
