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Byline Episode 45: Shotgun killer terrorized Northwest Indiana from 2020-07-01T01:00
In the early 90s, a series of brutal murders with a shotgun left the people of Northwest Indiana terrified and calling for the killer's capture. The search and investigation would prove a challe...
ListenByline, Episode 43: The murder of Christian Choate from 2019-12-29T00:35:40
For two years, 13-year-old Christian Choate's body went undiscovered by law enforcement, slowly decaying inside a Rubbermaid container underneath a storage shed in Gary. After being exhumed, the in...
ListenByline, Episode 42: A serial killer in Hammond from 2019-11-03T17:49:34
Abandoned at age 9 by his mother at a "snake-pit" mental institution in Chicago, David Maust went on to brutally kill five teenage boys and harm at least a dozen others.
He stabbed his victi...
Byline, Episode 41: Serial killer terrorized NWI and beyond from 2019-08-18T02:53:35
Larry Eyler, dubbed the "Highway Killer," terrorized Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin with his murders of hitchhikers, primarily men. Four of his victims ended up in Newton County. Though ...
ListenByline, Episode 40: 40 years later, Given case still rocks Region from 2019-06-25T17:45:47
The murder of Jay Given is one of the Region's oldest cold cases. Those involved with the investigation provide their accounts from the nearly 40-year-old murder.
The second installment refl...
Byline, Episode 39: Victim's strangulation murder in Crown Point reverberates from 2019-06-25T17:40:59
Her lifeless, strangled body was found partially naked in a Crown Point cornfield, and now her admitted murderer is a free man residing in a city that was home to the crime.
It started out a...
Byline, Episode 38: Teens spur change around mental health from 2019-06-25T17:32:55
The North Township Trustee's office is often seeking ways to engage with and improve the livelihood of teens. One of the office's recent projects, 13 Reasons Why Not, is a campaign centered on educ...
ListenByline, Episode 37: High school teachers, students discuss President Trump in the classroom from 2018-01-02T15:13:22
In the first year of his presidency, and throughout this campaign, insults in speeches, interviews and tweets are often found in President Trump's language. He likely isn't the only president to sp...
ListenByline, Episode 36: Questioning the safety of home daycares in the Region from 2017-10-22T17:01:05
In April, Merrillville police and town councilmembers were shocked when an assortment of loaded guns, knives and alcohol bottles were found in a home daycare belonging to Tawana Cole. With around 2...
ListenByline, Episode 35: Analyzing the fate of John Buncich from 2017-09-18T01:17:43
Lake County swore in a new sheriff, Oscar Martinez Jr., on Saturday. He will take over a position that has carried a black eye for the past few months due to the federal indictment of former Sherif...
ListenByline, Episode 34: Strack&Van Til stays alive; West Calumet residents adjust to new life from 2017-08-07T00:58:48
In the middle of April, many that regularly shop at Strack & Van Til learned the news of the stores' sale. In a rollercoaster, storybook turn of events, Indiana Grocery Group, led by the Strack and...
ListenByline, Episode 33: Community banks prove their value from 2017-07-10T02:27:32
A part of the Region's strength comes from its local and small businesses. They provide jobs and help keep capital flowing back to the community, such as through sponsorships or philanthropic gifts...
ListenByline, Episode 32: A grocery giant bids goodbye to its community from 2017-06-11T23:35:43
Over the last few weeks the details of Central Grocers and the eventual sale of Strack & Van Til have come to light. The grocery chain has been a go-to spot for Region shoppers and an enormous bols...
ListenByline, Episode 31: The movement out of (and into) the Region, Part 2 from 2017-05-15T01:32:12
Last time, Byline took a look at how many are opting to leave the Region for different opportunities or a better quality of life. However, there's many still coming.
According to recent data...
Byline, Episode 30: The movement out of (and into) the Region, Part 1 from 2017-05-03T03:19:11
At one point in time, Lake County held over half a million residents. Since the beginning of the decade, the county has lost over 10,000 people, raising concerns among local political and business ...
ListenByline, Episode 29: The Region loses some weight from 2017-04-17T14:34:10
The function of a newspaper is to inform readers of a variety of topics. However, is there room for it to possibly change someone's life?
That's what some have felt that do and have particip...
Byline, Episode 28: Leaders try to improve Gary's safety from 2017-04-03T01:09:18
Every year police departments at various levels in the Region accumulate crime statistics. Different areas experienced rises and falls among categories such as homicides, shootings, property crime,...
ListenByline, Episode 27: Immigrants shape the Region from 2017-03-20T03:24:58
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States was a sign of change and hope for some, but also a sign of worry for others. While he campaigned, President Trump's language in callin...
ListenByline, Episode 26: The Region braces for change possibly coming down the tracks from 2017-03-06T04:44:57
NICTD's South Shore Line is a public transportation staple for NWI commuters to Chicago for work or leisure. Officials say the growth it helps spur has become stagnant. How does it get a kickstart ...
ListenByline, Extra - Civility in the Classroom students' responses from 2017-02-22T04:25:26
As a part of Byline's recent episode on Community Civility Counts, students at Steel City Academy were interviewed on what they learned and understood from their lessons in Civility in the Classroo...
ListenByline, Episode 25: The Region spurs a movement of civility from 2017-02-21T13:19:07
Chuck Hughes, executive director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce, saw a problem in the local political environment. In his view, people were nasty to each other in the way they tried to communicate...
ListenByline, Episode 24: Fixing corruption's mark on NWI from 2017-02-06T05:30:40
Northwest Indiana politics, particularly in Lake County, has a rough history. It's marked by its highs, but also by its lows as civic leaders go down in history and besmirch the Region's reputation...
ListenByline, Episode 23: Healthcare workers try to save the littlest Hoosiers from 2017-01-23T04:25:17
There's a problem involving Indiana's infants. Around 600 of them don't make it to their first birthday. The state has a high infant mortality rate, a statistic measuring how many infants per 1,000...
ListenByline, Episode 22: Checking in on the East Chicago lead crisis from 2017-01-02T07:23:32
Once dangerously high levels of lead and arsenic were discovered in East Chicago's West Calumet neighborhood, many residents' lives were turned upside down. Times reporters Sarah Reese and Lauren C...
ListenByline, Episode 21: A teacher makes history come alive from 2016-12-19T07:58:37
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it," or so the saying goes. How do you make people interested or care? Tom Clark, a history teacher at Lake Central High School, takes students ...
ListenByline, Episode 20: Volunteers work to help Indiana's neglected children from 2016-12-05T07:20:45
Indiana, or any state for that matter, has its own set of problems. However, a looming one, recently discovered, is the amount of child abuse and neglect cases, which have doubled over the past dec...
ListenByline, Episode 19: A community strives to exist from 2016-11-30T08:49:14
Nestled within the industry-strewn section of the Region lies East Chicago's historic Marktown neighborhood. It's a small island surrounded by some of the heaviest industry in North America. As of ...
ListenByline, Episode 18: Something's brewing in NWI from 2016-11-21T06:52:59
Craft beer production is growing exponentially. Chicagoland is home to one of the largest beer markets in the country. Northwest Indiana's collection of breweries plays a role in that. For any brew...
ListenByline, Episode 17: Forgotten wars, remembered warriors from 2016-11-14T01:08:58
Doug Ross took us on a journey filled with more stories than we could possibly tell here. The true and harrowing experiences of the men who served in wars both remembered (WWII) and forgotten (The ...
ListenByline, Episode 16: Does my vote count? from 2016-11-08T18:27
"Your vote matters." Or so we're told. Is that the truth? It's not necessarily a clear 'yes' or 'no' answer, at least in regards to the presidential election. This week's Byline examines the electo...
ListenByline, Episode 15: Reporter takes a break from real life horrors, for haunted house thrills from 2016-10-30T17:37:40
Ever been to a haunted house? Northwest Indiana has its fair share of them. So many in fact that reporter Bob Kasarda was able to visit four of them. We give you audio from those houses as well as ...
ListenByline, Episode 14: From death row to a new life from 2016-10-24T04:00:36
Zolo Azania used to be named Rufus Averhart. But 35 years in prison, on and off death row, have changed him. In fact, they've changed more than his name. In this episode of Byline, we listen in on ...
ListenByline, Episode 13: Lead contamination changes a school's history from 2016-10-17T03:18:03
Revisiting the East Chicago lead contamination story, we go to school. Carrie Gosch, the elementary school on the site, has a little history behind it. But nothing is more important than what has j...
ListenByline, Episode 12: A boy comes home for the first time from 2016-10-10T02:30:10
Bobo is a child that lives in an orphanage in China, the most populated country on the planet with over half a million orphans just like him. But he's on the verge of receiving the privilege of a p...
ListenByline, Episode 11: Northwest Indiana faces the stark reality of opioid addiction from 2016-10-02T23:55:15
It's no secret that NWI is struggling to find solutions to the opioid addiction problem that takes many lives every year. In this episode we follow health reporter Giles Bruce as he visits the Port...
ListenByline, Episode 10: An entrepreneurial region's hero leaves a legacy from 2016-09-26T03:22:02
Indiana lost a financial and philanthropic giant late 2016. Dean White passed away and Byline hunted down voices to give tribute to a man who changed the region forever. Listen as we hear from repo...
ListenByline, Episode 9: A new entertainment section for the Region is born from 2016-09-19T02:26:07
219 is a new magazine embedded in the Thursday edition of the Northwest Indiana Times. How did they get here and why are they here in the first place? We talk to the two-woman team who makes it all...
ListenByline, Episode 8: A reporter traces the past from 2016-09-12T02:38:58
Joyce Russell is a veteran newspaper reporter, but this week on Byline she talks about her passion: genealogy. Dive into her stories with us as we explore the work of this amazing writer and get to...
ListenByline, Episode 7: A school's journey begins in the midst of a struggling system from 2016-09-05T03:13:53
Steel City Academy is a new charter school on the south side of Gary, Indiana. It's got high hopes and a great operation in place. But will it be able to stand against the problems the area faces i...
ListenByline, Episode 6: A landmark passes into history from 2016-08-29T03:30:55
Times reporter Joseph Pete has been reporting on the retirement of the Star Plaza theater. Hear from him, entertainment guru Charlie Blume and a band that will have a hard time saying goodbye.
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Byline, Episode 5: A mother tries to protect her children, a community pleads for answers from 2016-08-22T03:02:26
We return to the West Calumet Housing Complex this week for part 2 of our reporting on the lead and arsenic soil contamination in this East Chicago community. In part 2, we zoom in to take a look a...
ListenByline, Episode 4: A horrible truth comes to light, a community fears for its life from 2016-08-15T21:30:29
This week Byline explores the story of the West Calumet Housing Complex where there are elevated levels of lead in the soil. The situation is chaotic, frustrating, and confusing, and the biggest qu...
ListenByline, Episode 3: A woman changes her community, a reporter serves his from 2016-08-08T05:49:57
This week on Byline, the story of poverty in Northwest Indiana and the people fighting it. We talk to a reporter, a community leader, and a woman who's found hope in the midst of trying times. This...
ListenByline, Episode 2: A market struggles back to its feet, a young couple finds a home from 2016-08-01T03:23:40
In Episode 2, we talk to a reporter who's keeping a close eye on the housing market in NWI and trends that suggest there just aren't as many homes available as there used to be. We also chat with f...
ListenByline, Episode 1: A reporter moves on, a fighter hopes for reform from 2016-07-25T02:36:35
The Byline podcast is a production of the Northwest Indiana Times. Listen at nwi.com/podcasts. Byline is a show about stories from Northwest Indiana and the reporters who tell them.
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