Bill and Janice Smolinski continue to sift through hundreds of police reports to try and find the missing piece of the puzzle that will reveal where their son was buried in 2004. For much of the past ...

Story By Robert Muldoon and John Murray The Connecticut State Police has stonewalled a n investigation by The Waterbury Observer into six cold case murders going back to 1988. Despite a total ...

September 2nd is a big day in history, and a special day in the Murray Family. 77 years ago, on September 2nd, 1945, the Japanese signed a peace treaty onboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending ...

The past thirty months have been a continuous roller coaster for the CHD Hospitality Center in Waterbury that serves the city’s struggling homeless population. On February 21, 2020, their building at ...

Picture the unfolding development projects in Waterbury as pieces of a massive jigsaw puzzle that has taken a decade to position across the landscape. There are a dizzying number of projects now at ...

As the first phase of a 7.1 mile greenway through Waterbury nears completion in the South End the city has reached an inflection point. There are a lot of critics of Waterbury who say city residents ...

Lisa Stokes Velez grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood with seven brothers in the Stokes Family, and Vin Riddick was so close to the Stokes family, he was like an 8th brother to her. Both Lisa and Vin ...

A funky old house on Central Avenue in Waterbury has triggered a philosophical debate about history, community good and real estate values. The proposed demolition of a Victorian era multi-family home ...

(Editor’s note – this is 7th article in a series The Waterbury Observer is publishing about unsolved murders of Waterbury women in the past 34 years, six of whose bodies were hidden in the forest ...

What do you do with tips that might unlock a 14-year-old mystery into one of Waterbury’s most notorious murder cases? The obvious answer was to deliver those tips straight to the Waterbury Police ...

Brianna Beam came to Waterbury at age 18, in 2020, newly independent, to begin life afresh. It was a fateful decision. A year later, her skeletal remains were found in Campville, near the Naugatuck ...

John Henry Everett, 67, has been having nightmares recently. Not about his quadruple bypass surgery—no, he can deal with that. He’s lived half his life with a haunting question: who murdered his kid ...