Marc Perrusquia

With credibility on the line for members of the Memphis Police Department’s now-disbanded SCORPION unit, attorneys anticipate mass dismissals of criminal cases filed against citizens arrested by the unit.

MPD said in a statement Monday that Hemphill was relieved of duty on Jan. 8 and remains under investigation.

The officers terminated in connection with the death of Tyre Nichols were affiliated with a special Memphis Police Department unit called SCORPION, an initiative that attempts to reduce crime in the city.

Fresh questions surface about a series of expunged burglaries linked to murder defendant

A lawsuit includes a claim that had a 2021 rape been properly investigated and had Cleotha Henderson been arrested, the abduction and murder of Eliza Fletcher could have been avoided.

City of Memphis asks to dismiss rape victim Franklin’s lawsuit, saying MPD had no duty to investigate her case as she wanted and denies failure to arrest accused rapist Henderson led to the death of Fletcher.

As rape survivors pursue a lawsuit accusing the Memphis Police Department of negligence, the city is asking a judge to exclude testimony of a former sex crimes detective who claims MPD failed to properly investigate numbers of cases.

Several sexual assault survivors showed up Thursday at the Shelby County Courthouse to listen to arguments in a lawsuit accusing MPD of negligence in the handling of thousands of rape cases over the course of decades.

An amended lawsuit contends Eliza Fletcher’s alleged killer avoided arrest for rape in 2021 despite implicating details that his girlfriend gave Memphis police days after the attack.

As the woman who police think was raped last year by Eliza Fletcher’s alleged killer takes her story to a national audience on ‘Good Morning America,’ community leaders are demanding answers about law enforcement’s slow-moving investigation of the 2021 rape.

A just-filed lawsuit against the City of Memphis alleges negligence by MPD in investigating a 2021 rape for which Eliza Fletcher’s alleged killer has now been accused of committing.

A woman who said she was sexually assaulted by Cleotha Henderson, aka Cleotha Abston, the same man accused of killing Eliza Fletcher, says Memphis Police Department didn’t make solving her case a priority.

As information emerges linking Eliza Fletcher’s alleged killer to a 2021 rape, two retired detectives wonder if Memphis Police Department could have done more to solve the case.

One person familiar with the investigation said a 2021 rape victim provided police with Cleotha Abston’s phone number, his social media handle, his home address and a description of his car.

Cleotha Abston, the alleged killer of schoolteacher Eliza Fletcher was investigated for rape last year but the Memphis Police Department failed to charge him despite a DNA match.

Tennessee state crime lab took 11 months to test DNA evidence linking Eliza Fletcher’s alleged killer to a 2021 rape case, blaming Memphis police for not requesting an expedited DNA analysis.

As comptroller urges ouster of Wanda Halbert, a new controversy emerges.

In the middle of an election campaign, District Attorney Amy Weirich appears on Thaddeus Matthews’ show as her office simultaneously prosecutes him on several misdemeanor allegations.

Former lawyer Bret Thompson was disbarred in 1996 for stealing client funds. He’s been repeatedly convicted since then for posing as a lawyer and stealing from “clients.”

Rape survivor Debby Dalhoff confronts the former police official who destroyed evidence that could have identified the assailant in her still-unsolved 1985 home invasion.