Hannah Shirley

Hannah Shirley

Hannah Shirley covers crime, courts and criminal justice for the Grand Forks Herald. She is a 2018 graduate of the University of Idaho and has lived and worked in Grand Forks since 2019. Prior to moving to North Dakota, she worked as a reporter for the Berkshire Record in Great Barrington, Mass., a receptionist for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News in Moscow, Idaho, and a barista in a New York City coffee shop. She can be reached by phone at (701) 780-1267 or by email at hshirley@gfherald.com.

"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings ... I am not in the least bit sorry," wrote Carl Panzram.
Nineteen-year-old farmhand George Miller maintained his innocence all the way to the gallows after he was convicted of murdering an Inkster, N.D., farmer's wife and 11-year-old son in 1885.
Court documents allege that Valentin Mendoza IV, 20, told his girlfriend he intended to kill himself three minutes before swerving into oncoming traffic and killing two Grand Forks teenagers. Mendoza's location is not currently known, and a nationwide warrant has been issued for his arrest.
No injuries were reported in the crash.
Steven Barros Pinto, 40, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was involved in a Rhode Island organization part of an international fentanyl distribution ring.
Pendleton was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Grand Forks Officer Cody Holte and to 25 years for the death of Pendleton's mother, Lola Moore.
Kaylee Acevedo, 10, was on her bicycle on the sidewalk in downtown Crookston when a semi entered the sidewalk during a turn Monday evening. Acevedo became entangled in the semi's back tires and was dragged a block and a half, according to police.
A retired Grand Forks detective said Kristi Nikle's case disturbs him because the 19-year-old developmentally disabled woman seemed to vanish into thin air.
John Carl Krogen of Bottineau was traveling south on Bottineau County 57, in a Mercury Grand Marquis just after 6:30 p.m. Sunday when his car left the gravel roadway, entered the east ditch and struck a tree in a ravine. Krogen was found unresponsive at the scene and pronounced dead.
"Just please don't take the pill," Grand Forks Police Lt. Derik Zimmel said. "We ask and we'll continue to ask and beg and plead, but there's a lethality to them that is evidenced repeatedly."