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The Making of a “Shooter”

One Man’s Story Highlights the Elements that Create – and Prevent – Killers

Writer Kim Whiting recounts the story of her friend, Tay Ramey. Once a gifted child, Tay was shaped by abuse, community violence, and a sense that he did not belong in the wider world. Tay was serving a life sentence for murder in California before his death in 2020. His story illustrates, Whiting says, how traumatic experiences and low self-worth can lead people toward violence. It also shows, she argues, that the alternative--being seen and loved--can foster healing. It's a Reporters Inc. Original.

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Kim Whiting
August 12, 2026
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Injustice is Served

Convicted day care provider maintains her innocence in gripping memoir

In 2010, 49-year-old Lynn Moller, a day care provider in Madison, Wisconsin, was found guilty of three counts of child abuse involving two children in her care. Moller had run her day care without incident for 16 years when the allegations first surfaced; she has never wavered in her claims of innocence despite losing every appeal.

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December 20, 2017
What Katelyn Saw AbuseCrimeWrongful ConvictionsYouth

What Katelyn Saw

When a child claimed to see abuse at my day care, my life was nearly destroyed

In March 2010, 49-year-old Lynn Moller, a day care provider in Madison, Wisconsin, was found guilty of three counts of child abuse involving two children in her care. Moller had run her day care without incident for 16 years when the allegations first surfaced; she has never wavered in her claims of innocence despite losing every appeal.

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Lynn Moller
May 26, 2016
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Molested & Raped:

Why survivors like me must heal through forgiveness and compassion

"For the first half of my life I was such a trauma and pervert magnet that by the age of eight I had already labeled myself a freak. I was the one common denominator in a seemingly endless stream of situations with sexual miscreants," Kim Whiting writes. She says the sexual abuse she suffered from her early childhood to young adulthood taught her that compassion and forgiveness are crucial for recovery.

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Kim Whiting
May 19, 2016
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