Liam Elder-Connors
Senior ReporterLiam is Vermont Public’s public safety reporter, focusing on law enforcement, courts and the prison system.
Liam has worked at Vermont Public since 2015 and has reported several special projects, including an investigation into one of the state's prominent landlords and a series of remembrances of Vermonters killed by COVID-19. In 2018, he reported and co-hosted JOLTED, a five-part podcast about an averted school shooting and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for his work on that project.
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DNA testing determined that a skull found in 2006 along the Connecticut River belonged to a man who disappeared five years earlier while fishing. -
For years, Rep. Debbie Dolgin and her husband brought cases before an assistant judge who issued arrest warrants to collect unpaid debts from their tenants. As a major landlord-tenant bill is actively debated, Dolgin says she sees no conflict in her roles. -
Gov. Phil Scott signed a bill into law this week that extends the time limits for prosecuting voyeurism cases. The law was prompted by a Vermont Public story about a filmmaker who avoided criminal charges for recording two teenagers without their knowledge. -
The top prosecutor in Chittenden County has decided not to charge the six protesters arrested last month during the ICE raid in South Burlington. -
Vermont State Police said Thursday that two more women have come forward and accused Windsor County Sheriff Ryan Palmer of sexual misconduct, including one who says she was paid multiple times to participate in sex acts. -
Doug DiSabito, 57, of Alburgh, was arrested at the Franklin County District Courthouse and cited for driving under the influence, according to St. Albans city police. DiSabito is slated to appear in court in early May. -
A Vermont Superior Court judge ruled Friday that Jason Eaton, the man accused of shooting three Palestinian college students in Burlington more than two years ago, is fit to stand trial. -
The Vermont Supreme Court has temporarily suspended Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos' law license while a disciplinary case related to her drunk driving conviction plays out. -
A new estimate projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities, with a combined 670,000 students, are at risk of closing or having to merge within the next 10 years. -
Under the plea deal, Theodore Bland, of Stowe, will avoid the death penalty, though he still faces life in prison for the killing of two Massachusetts men in 2023.
