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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Lawyers for Alan Beaman will be allowed to share evidence with jurors at his upcoming civil trial against three retired Normal police officers that the officers violated accepted police standards in their 1993 homicide investigation that led to Beaman’s conviction on murder charges, a Peoria County judge ruled on Friday.
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The elimination of cash bail as a means to detain people before trial has brought change to McLean County, including heavier workloads and lower jail populations, as officials navigate the implications of a massive rewrite of the state’s pretrial process.
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A Bloomington man was found guilty on Friday of murder in the February 2023 shooting death of Kiejoun Watts.
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Advanced forensic testing could yield new information in the 1991 death of William Little, a defense expert argued Thursday in the evidentiary hearing for Jamie Snow, who is challenging his conviction on murder charges in connection with the armed robbery that killed Little.
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Bloomington Police sergeant Ty Carlton was fired in January after an internal investigation found text messages exchanged between the veteran officer and Cassandra and Jadelyn Lacey, of Bloomington. The couple, both nurses, were being investigated for stealing fentanyl from a doctor’s office where Carlton’s wife Wendy worked.
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Freelance journalist Matthew Bremner said a similar experience in his own life — the accidental injury of infant son — caused him to revisit the story about a father accused of killing his 3-year-old daughter, Christina McNeil.
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A Bloomington Police sergeant fired after 21 years on the force told detectives during an internal investigation into his alleged misconduct that he was attempting to shield two innocent people from unwarranted charges when he provided them with police reports in violation of department policy.
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New evidence in the murder case that sent Barton McNeil to prison for life in the death of his 3-year-old daughter would likely be inadmissible at a second trial, a McLean County judge has ruled.
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A Texas firm will crowdsource to help cover the cost of genetic testing to try to identify a woman found dead in rural McLean County 42 years ago.
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In a progress report compiled by DCFS for fiscal year 2023, the agency noted that “unprecedented staff turnover impacts the accuracy, comprehensiveness, and consistency of ongoing assessments of risk and safety.”