2011 LJWorld Investigations

In 2011, our staff worked diligently investigating a wide variety of topics important to our readers. Some of those ideas came from brainstorming, some from interested readers, and a few from the all-too-mysterious “anonymous source.”

Here’s a look at a few of the topics we tackled this year:

Farm Aid: Where does the money go?

Local charity not what is seems; a multi-state scheme in the name of veterans?

DNA evidence may be answer to decades-old unsolved mystery

Despite sex offender registration laws, offenders who leave state get lost in shuffle

Will new DUI law really keep the worst of the worst off the road?

KU ticket scandal comes to an end

For more than a decade, serial rapist baffles police

After yet another head-on collision on K-10, cable barriers urged