Email Author Christine Pelisek

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 17, 2010

  "The Killer of His Daughter's Mother"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published May 28, 2009

  "Bad Little Suburban Boys"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published March 12, 2009

  "Grim Sleeper's Sole Survivor"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 23, 2009

  "The Closers"

• 2009 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published August 28, 2008

  "Grim Sleeper"

• 2008 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published March 16, 2007

  "What Really Happened at Fire Station 5?"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published January 19, 2007

  "Flying High with the Vicious Ladies"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published October 18, 2006

  "The Scourge of Skid Row"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published October 18, 2006

  "The Scourge of Skid Row"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 13, 2006

  "Broken Bridges"

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2006 Stories by Christine Pelisek

• Dog Food Caper

  published November 23, 2006

  WHEN MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA vetoed a $2.7 million settlement to a black firefighter tricked into eating dog food, he took aim at key... More >>

• The Scourge of Skid Row

  published October 19, 2006

  Detective Tricia Hauck finished a burglary investigation at Pete’s Café and returned to the Central Division station near Skid Row.... More >>

• Hey, OJ!

  published October 5, 2006

  SICK OF CORPORATE AMERICA BLENDING your fruit and vegetable drinks? Yes, I mean Robeks and Jamba Juice! If so, then check out the... More >>

• Emmery’s Mysterious End

  published September 28, 2006

  A WORKER MADE THE GRUESOME DISCOVERY January 25 behind a Boyle Heights warehouse. There, lying near the loading dock, were the... More >>

• The Quiet Mexican

  published September 7, 2006

  HIS PALS AT WORK CALLED HIM “POLI,” because he was built like a cop and tolerated little nonsense. Jose Antonio Meza never... More >>

• Race Divide

  published August 10, 2006

  A MEMBER OF A GANG notorious for terrorizing African Americans has been charged with pointing a gun at a 17-year-old black student after... More >>

• Avenues Gang Members Meet the End of the Road

  published August 3, 2006

  ALTHOUGH MEMBERS OF A LATINO street gang were convicted in federal court last Tuesday of committing a string of deadly hate crimes... More >>

• ''They Wanted All Blacks Out''

  published July 27, 2006

  The three African-American men had just spent another evening at the Lodge, a popular gay bar in North Hollywood. It had become a ritual for... More >>

• Roger Didn't Do It

  published July 13, 2006

  A FRESNO MAN NAMED AS A SUSPECT in a string of 10 prostitution-related killings in Los Angeles has been cleared by DNA... More >>

• The Sex Murder Files

  published June 8, 2006

  nglewood homicide detective Jeffrey Steinhoff was stumped by the March 2002 killing of a girl named Princess: Only 14 years old, the runaway... More >>

• The Death Team

  published June 8, 2006

  sing computers and comparing notes, L.A. County coroner’s investigators last year began sorting through 800 autopsy and investigative... More >>

• Body Count

  published June 8, 2006

  This map shows the locations and identities of... More >>

• Hell Hath No Fury Like a Watchdog Scorned

  published May 4, 2006

  A homeless man slowly stretches in the morning sun, eyeing the three volunteers, dressed in orange vests, hardhats, T-shirts and steel-toed... More >>

• The Ultimate Costs

  published April 27, 2006

  A cross made of white and blue carnations stands next to a sandstone-colored coffin. A young woman cries loudly as Father Greg Boyle... More >>

• A Coroner's Cross Section

  published April 27, 2006

  Stanley Tookie Williams didn’t go alone. On December 13, the same day he died, more than 50 people met with less ceremonious deaths in... More >>

• Community in Pain

  published April 13, 2006

  A HANDFUL OF FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS are propped up against the wall of the Koreatown apartment. A black skateboard, its wheels removed in... More >>

• Trail of Violence

  published April 13, 2006

  THE YIS’ DEATH ON MARCH 3 was the first of many violent acts to plague the Korean-American community in the last five weeks. More >>

• A Cheap Life

  published April 13, 2006

  THE 58-YEAR-OLD KOREAN-AMERICAN storeowner was talking to his sister on the telephone when his wife frantically interrupted him. Two... More >>

• The Prison King

  published March 23, 2006

  Shayne Allyn Ziska didn’t want a jury trial. He thought the ways of his former world, as a $66,000-a-year guard at Chino's state... More >>

• Diebold's Revenge

  published March 2, 2006

  WHAT WOULD YOU CALL a well-meaning employee at a law firm handling Diebold’s legal strategies who leaks key documents outlining... More >>

• The Knockout Shot

  published February 23, 2006

  MICHAEL “THE BOUNTY” HUNTER was considered one of the toughest heavyweight boxers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He... More >>

• Street Justice

  published January 26, 2006

  WITH A HEARSE PARKED IN THE BACKGROUND, celebrity attorney Debra Opri talked about the death of Tyrone Danell Brooks. A small group of... More >>

• Sharing Tookie’s Day: A Coroner’s Cross Section of December 13

  published January 5, 2006

  Stanley Tookie Williams didn’t go alone. On December 13, the same day he died, more than 50 people met with less ceremonious deaths in Lo... More >>