Liam Elder-Connors
Senior ReporterLiam is Vermont Public’s public safety reporter, focusing on law enforcement, courts and the prison system.
Liam has worked at Vermont Public since 2015 and has reported several special projects, including an investigation into one of the state's prominent landlords and a series of remembrances of Vermonters killed by COVID-19. In 2018, he reported and co-hosted JOLTED, a five-part podcast about an averted school shooting and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for his work on that project.
Leave Liam a voicemail at 802-552-8899 or send Liam an email.
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A 28-year old woman held at Chittenden County Regional Correction Facility died last month from complications caused by a MRSA infection, according to her death certificate. -
The owners of Burke Mountain are buying Smugglers' Notch ski resort for an undisclosed price, the companies announced Wednesday. The leaders of Bear Den Partners have promised to maintain the independence and culture of Smuggs. -
State police arrested 11 people and cited two others on trespassing charges Monday after the group declined to leave a Williston building that houses an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. -
A special docket aimed at reducing a backlog of low-level offenses in Chittenden County has cleared just over 700 cases. The governor is pushing to expand the initiative to other counties. -
A state oversight panel voted Wednesday to temporarily suspend Windsor County Sheriff Ryan Palmer’s law enforcement certification while the criminal case against him is pending. Gov. Phil Scott, meanwhile, said Palmer should resign. -
Following a Vermont Public story about a Burlington filmmaker who avoided criminal charges, lawmakers are seeking to extend the statute of limitations for voyeurism and the non-consensual disclosure of sexually explicit images. -
Titus Peters, 42, was found unresponsive in his cell at Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Mississippi, a private prison that holds 150 Vermonters. -
Windsor County Sheriff Ryan Palmer on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges that he paid three women to watch him masturbate, stalked two of them, and tried to cover up his actions.
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Vermont State Police arrested Windsor County Sheriff Ryan Palmer Tuesday on multiple charges, including solicitation of prostitution, stalking, and obstruction of justice. -
A federal judge on Tuesday appointed Nick Deml, the former head of Vermont’s prison system, to take over Rikers Island, the troubled New York City jail.
