Peggy Lowe
Public Safety, Justice and Investigative ReporterAs KCUR’s public safety and justice reporter, I put the people affected by the criminal justice system front and center, so you can learn about different perspectives through empathetic, contextual and informative reporting. My investigative work shines a light on often secretive processes, countering official narratives and exposing injustices.
Email me at lowep@kcur.org.
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In 2023, Missouri executed four people, making it one of just five states to use the death penalty — and another execution has been set for this year. -
Kansas City, Missouri, has exceeded its record for deadliest year, with 185 homicides in 2023. The city's 51st victim, who was killed in April, ran a popular fish restaurant and taco truck, and was a champion pickleball player. -
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker has launched an effort to charge more cases of retail theft and illegal firearms on the Plaza. -
The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners recently approved spending $200,000 for another year of ShotSpotter, a surveillance technology, despite a new study that says it doesn't achieve the city's public safety goals. -
In an explosive new federal lawsuit, five women say the Unified Government knowingly allowed "dirty cops" to sexually exploit them, among numerous other crimes. The lawsuit names disgraced former detective Roger Golubski, who is already facing federal charges, as well as a former police chief who now serves as the U.S. Marshal in Kansas. -
Kansas City's Black Archives preserves police killing documents so people will know 'the real story'The Jackson County Prosecutor’s office, which won former Kansas City police officer Eric DeValkenaere’s conviction for killing 26-year-old Cameron Lamb, was “memorializing the moment” of the historic case. -
The disgraced Kansas City, Kansas Police detective, who faces civil rights charges of sexual assault and kidnapping, is set to be back in federal court Wednesday. The apparent lack of progress in his case has frustrated his alleged victims and social justice advocates in Kansas City, Kansas. -
A week after his conviction was upheld, the family of Eric DeValkenaere informally filed a clemency request with Gov. Mike Parson. DeValkenaere was convicted of killing 26-year-old Cameron Lamb in 2019. -
Eric DeValkenaere surrendered to Platte County Sheriff's officials Tuesday after a Missouri appellate court's three-judge panel affirmed his 2021 second-degree manslaughter conviction for the killing of Cameron Lamb. -
The decision by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds an earlier decision that attempts to fix what critics called a “procedural vortex” that unfairly kept people in prison with confusing documents, unfair hearings and petty interpretations of violations.
