The WAVE Troubleshooters - Behind the Investigation

WAVE News Troubleshooters Natalia Martinez and John Boel discuss how to move the LMPD forward after the chief resigns and sexual harassment lawsuits emerge. 

WAVE News Troubleshooters Natalia Martinez and John Boel preview the WAVE Originals ’23 Seconds: The Louisville Mass Shooting’, a documentary on the tragedy at Old National Bank.  

WAVE News Troubleshooters Natalia Martinez and John Boel discuss a lawsuit filed against the store that sold the weaponry used in the mass shooting at Old National Bank.  

After multiple investigations exposing the dangerous condition inside of Louisville’s jail, Troubleshooter Natalia Martinez checks back on the facility. She sits down with the new director for a brutally honest talk about the challenges he faced, the lives that were lost and the lives that are now being saved. 

In this episode of Behind the Investigation, WAVE Troubleshooter Natalia Martinez sits down with the lead detective of the Brice Rhodes triple murder case.  Louisville Homicide Detective Aaron Tinelli gives insight into his mind after getting the call, processing the scene and interviewing Brice Rhodes. 

A lot is going on outside University Hospital, a level-one trauma center. Medical helicopters, ambulances, police, even arrests. But on Oct. 4 at dusk, something else caught the eye of an arriving ambulance crew.

WAVE News Troubleshooter John Boel takes you inside his undercover investigations into suspected drug houses in Louisville. He walks you through his methods, training, and the safety precautions he takes. He also details how police respond to complaints about drugs and violence in the neighborhoods he investigates. 

 It is one of the most traumatic experiences a person out on the town can experience, yet investigating date-rape cases is extremely difficult. WAVE News troubleshooter Natalia Martinez investigates Nowhere Bar to see if they were holding true to their promise of keeping customers safe. 

This story began December 1 at 5 p.m. with a phone call to our newsroom from a horrified University Hospital employee. The employee claimed security had just wheeled an elderly woman all the way out to the corner of Hancock and Ali, just off hospital property, dumped the woman out of the wheelchair on the sidewalk and left. 

Gary Thompson doesn’t like talking to me anymore. To understand why, we have to go back to 2014. “I appreciate you guys busting me,” Thompson said. “Y’all really good at it. I average about $100,000 a year doing this.” While Lexington police held a press conference to warn people about a guy faking a mental disability act to rake in big bucks, that guy was demonstrating it right outside. “Mm... mm...

“When I walked in that jail, it was chills that shot all through my body,” Ta’Neasha Chappell’s mother, Lavita McClain, told WAVE 3 News. Chappell’s family said Ta’Neasha warned them something was going to happen to her in there when she would call from the jail. “You’re supposed to be safe and come out alive,” Chappell’s sister, Ronesha Murrell, said. Jackson County’s population is 44,000, accord...

When WAVE Troubleshooter John Boel walked up to a home at South 26th Street and West Madison Street, people were jumping fences or dashing to their cars to get away from him. “I’m John Boel with WAVE,” Boel said. Hey, don’t jump over the fence. Hold on, I came here to ask you guys a couple questions. Sir, what is everybody coming here to buy?” The answer began with emails from two different neighb...

Keyshaun Stewart was on probation when he was charged with killing a highway maintenance worker, Fred O’Bannon, and shooting LMPD sergeant Chris Lane on November 19. An exclusive WAVE News Troubleshooter Investigation uncovered that shortly after being charged in Jefferson County, Stewart racked up a new felony in Tennessee. Natalia take you Behind the Investigation

Roger Burdette, the driver of the MSD truck who slammed into LMPD detective Deidre Mengedoht’s vehicle, was found guilty on all counts in a unanimous decision by the jury, and Troubleshooter Natalia Martinez was there with complete coverage. Burdette was found guilty of murder, four counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence, and failure...

A music manager of the famous Louisville rapper EST G, or George Stone, has been arrested by the FBI, WAVE 3 News Troubleshooters have learned. Eric Mosley was taken into custody Thursday afternoon. He is charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person af...

A mourning mother insisted that the people who sold her son a  fatal heroin dose were still dealing drugs at a house on 27th Street and Slevin Street in Louisville’s Portland neighborhood. She said she couldn’t get the police to do anything about it, so she called WAVE 3 Troubleshooter John Boel. He takes you Behind the Investigation, where he picked up his camera, and confronted the dealers. Watc...