Newsroom
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting Wins National Edward R. Murrow Award
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KyCIR and 89.3 WFPL’s “Man With Many Chances” series honored with one of the country’s top broadcast journalism awards.
Criminal Justice
Richard Hooten, the ‘Man With Many Chances,’ Sentenced to Life in Prison
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Richard Carley Hooten, a longtime felon and focus of our “Man With Many Chances” investigative series, will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Hooten, 50, was sentenced today in Clark County Circuit Court, in Southern Indiana, to a term of life in prison without parole, according to the News and Tribune. Hooten pleaded guilty last month to killing 17-year-old Tara Willenborg in March 2013 in her Clarksville apartment. Last year, we examined how fundamental failures throughout the criminal justice system allowed a six-time felon and serial rapist to continue his predatory habits with little intervention
Decisions by prosecutors and judges put him back on the street instead of behind bars, and at the time of Willenborg’s rape and murder, Hooten was free on bond in connection with a felony gun case. For months before the killing, Clark County authorities failed to arrest Hooten, a registered sex offender, on outstanding warrants.
Newsroom
KyCIR Reporter Wins Regional Edward R. Murrow Award
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KyCIR’s R.G. Dunlop and 89.3 WFPL were honored today with a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for the “Man With Many Chances” series.
Criminal Justice
Richard Hooten’s Criminal Career Ends With Plea in Murder Case
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Longtime felon was focus of recent KyCIR investigation into flaws in the court system that allowed him to roam free and eventually kill.
Criminal Justice
Southern Indiana Authorities Missed Opportunities to Arrest Richard Hooten Before Teen’s Murder
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Richard Carley Hooten had two warrants out for his arrest and a wife who ratted him out to police. Yet for six months, he still evaded capture by Clark County authorities.
Criminal Justice
Indiana’s Legal System Gave Richard Hooten Many Chances—Then a Teenager Died
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An investigation by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting found that fundamental failures throughout Indiana’s criminal justice system allowed the veteran criminal to continue his predatory habits with little intervention.