crime
March 1, 2007
Killer instincts
UW crime experts reflect on a bloody year that saw the murder of two UW graduates—and what it might mean for future homicide rates.
December 1, 2006
2 guilty in bombing
Two defendants pleaded guilty Oct. 4 to participating in the firebombing of the UW Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001.
September 1, 2006
Mary Cooper, 1950-2006
Mary Cooper, '75, '04, a librarian since 1991 at Alternative Elementary II (AEII) School in Seattle, and her daughter, Susanna Cooper Stodden, were killed while hiking in the Cascade Mountains July 11.
Pamela Waechter, 1947-2006
Pamela Waechter, '85, a dedicated volunteer within and outside of the Jewish community, died in a shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.
March 1, 2006
Charges in arson
Four years after a blaze destroyed Merrill Hall, U.S. Attorney Karin Immergut has charged three members of "the Family," reputedly a secret eco-terrorist group, with conspiracy to commit arson.
December 1, 2003
More security
Interim President Lee Huntsman announced a set of initiatives to address issues of noise, disturbance and security in the neighborhood bordering the University north of N.E. 45th Street.
September 1, 2002
Guilty plea in probe
Former UW Neurosurgery Chair H. Richard Winn resigned from the University and pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice, the first legal settlement in a two-year probe of Medicare and Medicaid billing practices.
September 1, 2001
Arsonists strike
Arsonists burned down Merrill Hall, part of the UW Center for Urban Horticulture, May 21, causing $4.1 million in damage and destroying offices, research facilities and the center’s library.
September 1, 2000
Fatal choices
A UW freshman, medical resident and pathology professor died in two separate shooting incidents in spring 2000.
March 1, 1997
Crime rates are down; UW sociologists try to explain why
UW sociology professors say there are no easy answers to the mystery behind the falling crime rate.
September 1, 1993
Lineup concerns
The traditional police lineup may not be as fair a way to bring the bad guy to justice as previously believed.
September 1, 1991
Ann Rule, ’53
A former policewoman, Ann Rule began writing true-detective crime in 1968, after a divorce left her with four children to support.
June 1, 1991
Safe campus
The University of Washington campus had a 17 percent drop in violent felony crimes between 1989 and 1990, UW police reported.