Professional Experience:

June 2018 to present: Anchor for WINK News This Morning. Previously worked at KMIZ in Columbia, Missouri as a weekend anchor and reporter.

Awards and Recognition:

Suncoast Regional Emmy Award nomination for reporting on a "Bomb Squad Search at a Home in Cape Coral."; Two Heart of America Gold Awards from the Kansas City Press Club for a special report on "Surviving a Mass Shooting" and for several reports on human and sex trafficking in mid-Missouri.

News Philosophy: 

Be a voice for the voiceless.

Hobbies and Interests & Community Involvement

Relaxing at the beach or by the pool, working out, reading a good murder-mystery book and watching true crime documentaries. Volunteer at Gulf Coast Humane Society.

Education

Ohio University, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism

Likes best about Southwest Florida:

The heat, humidity and beaches.

Hometown

Canonsburg, PA

Lee County Electric Cooperative. (Credit: WINK News)

Scammers target Lee County Electric Cooperative clients in Lehigh Acres

Multiple unsettling phone calls, threatening to turn off the power or else! Over the weekend, Linda Manning found several messages on her home telephone that worried her. “There was someone coming to shut off the electricity,” Manning said. “I needed to go make a deposit payment to stop that.” Manning called the number. The man […]

Search and rescue technology. (Credit: LCSO)

Reunite Program finds the missing with advanced search and rescue tech

There is a new program that is aimed at getting people home safe, whether that be on the ground or in the air. The Lee County Sheriff’s Dept. plans to go high tech when searching for lost loved ones. Scroll through the Lee County Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Page on Facebook and you will find […]

Crime Stoppers advertises cold cases on Lee County billboards, buses

Crime Stoppers is hoping people will step up, helping to solve cold cases and track down bad guys. It has started to place logos, with phone numbers on billboards and buses. For one mother whose son’s killer has not been caught, she understands why these advertisements are crucial. One of Angela McClary’s constant reminders of […]

Cape Coral’s proposed FY 2020 budget would lower property tax rate

Cape Coral City Manager John Szerlag has released his fiscal year 2020 Proposed Budget, which includes a recommendation to lower the property tax rate to 6.55 mils. This would be the fourth reduction to the property tax rate since FY2014 with the current property tax rate at 6.75 mils. “We continue to meet the increased […]

Jury finds Ryan Doyon guilty of manslaughter in the 2017 death of Roy Pike

A jury found Ryan Doyon guilty of manslaughter Friday for the 2017 death of Roy A. Pike III. The jury also found Doyon guilty on four counts of discharging a firearm in public, both lesser charges. At 8:30 a.m. Friday court reconvened for day four of the trial. This is the second trial for Doyon […]

Trial of Ryan Doyon, suspect in Cape Coral 2017 killing, nears verdict

UPDATE: Closing arguments have wrapped up in a Lee County murder trial and will go back to court 8:30 a.m. Friday when jury deliberations are set to begin. The second trial for accused killer Ryan Doyon, 27, was nearing a verdict Thursday. Doyon faces a Second-Degree Murder charge after firing on a victim who later died […]

Day 3 of second trial underway for accused killer Ryan Doyon

The second trial for an accused killer in Lee County is now underway. It is “take two” for a second-degree murder trial in Lee County with two very different storylines. “This wasn’t an accident, this wasn’t self-defense,” said Sara Miller, State Attorney’s Office. “This was second-degree murder.” “This was a targeted home invasion robbery,” said […]

Men on the run after Lehigh Acres armed home invasion

A group of men are on the run after they posed as police and held up a couple at gunpoint in their home and demanded money On Thursday, Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of an armed home invasion in Lehigh Acres. According the LCSO report, a deputy was dispatched to a home […]

LCSO Deputy DUI

LCSO slashes jobs; 28-year employee among those out-of-work

“Unnecessary, redundant or easily absorbed elsewhere.” Those are the words WINK News found in a memo from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office outlining which positions it is cutting. One of the people cut dedicated 28-years of her life to LCSO. For nearly 30-years, Terri Taylor worked at LCSO. She started her career there as a […]

Mugshot of Devery Thomas Moses Jr., 27. (Credit: LCSO)

Kids are facing a rise of ‘sextortion’ crimes on Snapchat

There is a crime trend that parents and their kids need to talk about: ‘sextortion.’ Sitting in the Lee County Jail Tuesday night is Devery Thomas Moses, 27. Fort Myers police arrested the suspect on a warrant out of Wisconsin. According to a newspaper in Wisconsin, Moses was wanted for getting teenage girls to send […]