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Lisa Riordan Seville

Lisa Riordan Seville is a freelance contributor to The Crime Report based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Bleak housing options for parolees and recovering addicts

Lisa Riordan Seville, Graham Kates
(NYPD)

The sex crimes that shocked Brooklyn

Lisa Riordan Seville
Ziad Tayeh was acquitted after claiming self-defense in a 2006 stabbing in New York.

Making it OK to murder

Lisa Riordan Seville