Faith Karimi - Senior writer, CNN Digital
Faith Karimi
Senior writer, CNN Digital
Faith works with CNN teams to report, write and edit stories for CNN.com. Follow her on Twitter at @faithmkarimi or like her on Facebook at Faith M Karimi.
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A couple was shot to death while trying to buy a vintage car in 2015. Their IDs and cell phone just turned up in a creek
Nov 19, 2024
In 2015 Elrey “Bud” Runion and his wife June were found dead in south Georgia, where they had traveled to meet a man about buying a vintage Ford Mustang. This month someone found their IDs and credit cards in a nearby creek.
Alabama lawmen killed a Black woman during a search for whiskey. Her granddaughter is finally getting answers
Nov 11, 2024
Mary DeBardelaben made a promise she’d find out how her grandmother died at the hands of lawmen who raided her rural Alabama home in 1945. Now she’s finally learning the whole truth.
For these twin sisters, justice means finally learning the truth about what happened to their dad
Oct 25, 2024
On October 13, 1989, Jimmie Wade Martin went for a drink at his neighborhood bar in Bonne Terre, Missouri. His bloodied body was later found nearby, but no assailant was ever convicted. So years later, his twin daughters began investigating the case themselves.
He lost his son to fentanyl poisoning. He’s developed a video game he hopes will save others
Oct 25, 2024
Kamal Bherwani’s final text messages to his 22-year-old son still haunt him three years later. The suburban New York dad has dedicated his life – and developed a video game – to help save other young people from fentanyl overdoses.
A Massachusetts man is accused of using rubber ducks to intimidate witnesses in the Karen Read trial
Oct 23, 2024
A man accused of peppering homes and business with rubber ducks and fake $100 bills bearing messages supporting Karen Read now faces criminal charges — the latest twist in a high-profile case that has deeply divided a Boston suburb.
A 911 caller found his friend’s body and thought he was the victim of a bear attack. Police now say it was a homicide
Oct 18, 2024
Dustin Kjersem’s battered body was discovered October 12 in a tent near Big Sky, Montana. A 911 caller said it looked like a bear attack. But police now suspect Kjersem was murdered.
A New York man served 22 years for two murders he didn’t commit. He says prison saved his life
Oct 6, 2024
Calvin Buari was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1995 for two murders he didn’t commit. A former drug dealer, Buari was exonerated and released in 2017 after another man confessed to the killings. But he feels like his redemption story is just beginning.
An Olympic athlete was set ablaze by her partner, police say. It’s the latest killing of an elite female runner in Kenya
Sep 6, 2024
Rebecca Cheptegei’s boyfriend doused her with gasoline and set her ablaze this week during a dispute over land, police and her family said. She died Thursday in the latest horrific attack on a female Olympian in Kenya.
A woman allegedly killed her friend’s newborn twin and abused the other. Prosecutors will seek the death penalty
Aug 28, 2024
For Ethan Katz and Savannah Roberts, the evening of June 15 was already stressful. They had gone to a Pittsburgh hospital seeking treatment for Ari, one of their six-week-old twin sons, who had a mysterious injury. Then they got an emergency call that turned their world upside down.
A New York man died while on a solo trip to Colombia. It took his grieving mother 5 months to learn what happened
Aug 26, 2024
Omar Watson took a vacation to Colombia in February and called his mom to say he was ok. Two days later, he was found dead in his Airbnb. His mother has spent five months trying to find out what happened.
This sport is making its Olympics debut in Paris. Just don’t call it breakdancing
Aug 6, 2024
Breakdancing began on the streets of New York in the 1970s. Now the artform and sport, known competitively as breaking, is in the Olympics — and its athletes are ready to show off their moves.
As a young hitchhiker, he survived a ride with a serial killer. Now he’s telling his story
Jul 7, 2024
Steve Fishman was hitchhiking in Connecticut in 1975 when he accepted a ride from a chatty lone man in a Buick. Fishman was stunned a few months later to see the man’s face in news reports saying he’d confessed to a series of rapes and murders.
Mistrial declared for Karen Read, accused of killing her police officer boyfriend – and an investigator is relieved of duty
Jul 2, 2024
A judge declared a mistrial in the murder trial of Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of drunkenly driving into her police officer boyfriend.
Judge orders jury to keep deliberating after it fails to reach unanimous verdict in murder trial of Karen Read
Jul 1, 2024
The Massachusetts judge presiding over the Karen Read murder trial ordered the jury to continue deliberations after the jurors sent a note Friday saying they could not reach a unanimous verdict.
At Karen Read’s murder trial, prosecutors accuse her of drunken crash while defense alleges a vast police cover-up
Jun 25, 2024
Is Karen Read a rage-filled cop killer, or the convenient patsy of a vast police cover-up? That’s the question put to a Massachusetts jury on Tuesday in closing arguments of her murder trial in a case that has riveted the Bay State.
He spent months visiting death row inmates and witnessed three executions. Here’s what he’s learned
Jun 7, 2024
Journalist Steven Hale spent several years meeting with condemned prisoners at a maximum security prison in Tennessee and interviewing the people who visit and befriend them. Hale talks to CNN about his encounters with convicted murderers and what brings their visitors to death row.
About
Faith is a senior writer for CNN Digital who focuses on the most important cultural moments and trends across a wide range of topics. Before that, she worked as a news editor and weekend assigning editor for CNN Digital, a role that included coaching overnight writers and supervising national assignments. Off work, she loves traveling and writing, and has been to 42 states in the US and four continents. She’s also written a children’s book, “Bernie and the Lonely Rhino,” about a little boy who goes to Kenya and is captivated by a northern white rhino – a nearly extinct subspecies. Before coming to CNN, Faith worked as a copy editor at The Press-Enterprise in California and The Baltimore Sun in Maryland, where she helped cover President Obama’s first run for the White House. Follow her on Twitter at @faithmkarimi or like her on Facebook at Faith M Karimi.
