Erika Erickson
Reporter
Erika has been reporting in Michigan since 2010 and is part of The Investigators on Local 4. Send her an email.
Erika has been reporting in Michigan since 2010 and is part of The Investigators on Local 4. Send her an email.
It’s a disturbing and disgusting trend that animal rescuers and Detroiters say has plagued Detroit’s Rouge Park for decades: dogs and cats abandoned, abused, and left for dead in one of the city’s largest parks. But the City of Detroit says it now has a plan.
A Detroit man who vanished for 30 years after the murder of a punk rock singer has been tracked down in Panama.
When Zoeie Mendez looked down at the newly released mugshot of Richard Werstine, she was in shock, as it was the face of the man who was accused of killing her father 30 years ago.
Plymouth Township police said a disturbing series of investigations tied to the same household has led to disturbing charges, including child abuse, torture, unlawful imprisonment, and narcotics trafficking.
Detroit police and multiple law enforcement agencies launched a massive search on the city’s east side as part of an ongoing effort to locate missing persons, including 33-year-old missing Detroit woman Shanika Brewer.
Richard Werstine, accused of the 1993 murder of his roommate Rodney Barger in Detroit, was captured in Panama after evading authorities for over 30 years by using multiple aliases and false identities.
The U.S. Marshals Service’s Detroit Fugitive Apprehension Team has arrested a Detroit man who they said had been on the run for more than 30 years after being accused of a 1993 murder.
A mother says her 14-year-old son walked away from the Fowlerville High School wrestling team because he was urinated on in the locker-room showers.