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Trisha Taurinskas

Trisha Taurinskas

Enterprise crime reporter | Host of The Vault podcast

Trisha Taurinskas is an enterprise crime reporter for Forum Communications Co., specializing in stories related to missing persons, unsolved crime and general intrigue. Her work is primarily featured on The Vault.

Trisha is also the host of The Vault podcast.

Trisha began her journalism career at Wisconsin Public Radio. She transitioned to print journalism in 2008, and has since covered local and national issues related to crime, politics, education and the environment.

Trisha can be reached at ttaurinskas@forumcomm.com.

While serving a sentence for murder and attempted murder, Paul Michael Stephani confessed to two additional murders and one brutal beating.
The wheels of justice have turned slowly since Barry Lee Whelpley's 2021 arrest for the assault and murder of 15-year-old Julie Ann Hanson, found dead in a field in Naperville, Illinois, in 1972.
Daniel Joe Hittle was sentenced to serve 30 years in prison, yet was released on parole for good behavior after serving just 11 years.
Serenity Dennard was just 10 years old when she escaped from Children’s Home Society, a locked facility for children with behavioral struggles nestled in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Nicholas Firkus was sentenced in April for the murder of his first wife. The episode, 'Stranger in the House,' can be viewed now on Hulu.
'Vanished in Vermillion' shows what happens when law enforcement makes critical mistakes in an investigation, and how those errors can impact the lives of those caught in the tangled web.
Although initially convicted of first-degree manslaughter Loyal Lundstrom's case was overturned 18 months later by the Minnesota Supreme Court. But that wasn't the end of the story.
Forum News Service obtained court documents that shine new light on the murder case against John Keep, Nieland's boyfriend. The details have been largely shrouded from the public.
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An image obtained by Forum News Service of Rodriguez’s body before police arrived shows Rodriguez slouched, on his knees, on a retaining wall in a park in Montevideo, Minnesota.
BCA will review the Montevideo police investigation into the death of Refugio Rodriguez, after a Forum News Service investigation revealed concerns about police work, 'suicide' designation.