An internal investigation has found that Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum violated department policy because he didn’t respond when called to issue an Amber Alert for Zina Linnik in the early hours of July 5, 2007.
An outside expert's report on the Tacoma Police Department's investigation of the Zina Linnik abduction and murder case four years ago is expected to be released today, city officials said.
A King County judge on Thursday dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of Zina Linnik, the Hilltop girl who was kidnapped and murdered by a sex offender four years ago.
A King County judge has dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against the city of Tacoma, Pierce County and the state of Washington by the family of Zina Linnik, the Hilltop girl who was kidnapped and murdered by a sex offender four years ago.
If he had his way, Zina Linnik’s killer would be on Washington’s death row awaiting execution instead of serving a life sentence at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla.
When Mayor Marilyn Strickland announced in May her choice of a Texas consultant to do an outside review of Tacoma police’s Zina Linnik investigation, she made it clear his lack of local ties was an asset.
The city will spend up to $50,000 for “an objective and unbiased review” of Tacoma police’s handling of the Zina Linnik abduction and murder case four years ago, the City Council confirmed Tuesday.
“Asian guy with a gray van?” Randy Rush said into the phone, loudly repeating what he’d just heard. Rush, 46, looked straight at his co-worker, Terapon Adhahn, an Asian guy with a gray van. Adhahn didn’t react.
When a Tacoma cop faced losing his job six years ago for abusing his police position, then allegedly lying about it, Police Chief Don Ramsdell took strong action.
McCarver Elementary School students will celebrate two new playgrounds, and their power, on Play in Peace Day Friday.
The president of Tacoma’s police union this week sent a “letter of concern” to the mayor and City Council, denouncing a citizen volunteer on a police review panel who publicly chastised Chief Don Ramsdell last week for “lying” in his public statements about the Zina Linnik case.
The only former cop on a citizen panel charged with reviewing the Tacoma Police Department’s policies and procedures told Police Chief Don Ramsdell this week she believes he lied to the community about why his department delayed issuing an Amber Alert in the Zina Linnik case in 2007.
A letter sent by Tacoma’s city attorney two years ago to the lawyer for Zina Linnik’s family states the police department acted appropriately in deciding when to issue an Amber Alert after the girl disappeared in 2007.
In a sudden about-face, Tacoma City Manager Eric Anderson announced Friday that he has reprimanded Police Chief Don Ramsdell for withholding information regarding the Zina Linnik investigation.
Terapon Adhahn was angry the night of July 4, 2007.
The July 4, 2007, kidnapping and subsequent murder of 12-year-old Zina Linnik motivated kids from her Tacoma elementary school to dream big dreams in her memory.
Lakewood police named Terapon Dang Adhahn “a person of interest” Tuesday in the death of 10-year-old Adre’anna Jackson, who disappeared on her way to school in 2005.
Terapon Dang Adhahn, the suspect in the abduction and slaying of Tacoma 12-year-old Zina Linnik, provided DNA samples to Pierce County Superior Court after he was charged with incest in 1990.
Clothing recovered from a Parkland house during a police search last week did not belong to 12-year-old Zina Linnik, Tacoma police said Monday.
Mikhail Linnik’s last memory of his daughter is of Zina being taken away in a gray van.
Terapon Adhahn, prime suspect in the abduction and slaying of 12-year-old Zina Linnik, settled in Pierce County no earlier than December 1989, according to available public records.
“I disgraced myself and my mother deserves a better son than me.”
A 10-year-old child left a simple message in front of Zina Linnik’s Tacoma Hilltop home Friday.
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Memorial funds for Zina Linnik were opened Friday to help the 12-year-old Tacoma girl’s family.
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