Title:Senior Crime Writer
Emily Palmer has a decade of experience as a reporter, covering courts and crime.She joined PEOPLE in 2023 as a Senior Crime Writer.Emily’s work has frequently appeared in The New York Times. She has also been published in The Boston Globe, ProPublica, Cosmopolitan and Elle.
Emily Palmer has reported on courts and crime for a decade. She joined PEOPLE as a Senior Crime Writer in 2023.
Emily is a storyteller with a passion for narratives that dissect what it means to be human. Her works center on life at the edges, exploring criminal justice issues through evocative on-the-ground investigative reporting, which has taken her from ajail cellat Rikers Island to the courtroom for the cases ofEl Chapo,Diddy,R. KellyandAnna Delvey, across the U.S.inspecting child welfare laws, and inside the Sinaloa Cartel to write anintimate portraitof El Chapo’s wife. An authoritative voice on capos and con artists, she has been featured on20/20,Nightline,People Magazine Investigates,PBS NewsHour, theBBC, and (speaking in Spanish) onTelemundo.
In a nod to her work, she got ashout-outfrom actor Andre Braugher in his role as Captain Holt onBrooklyn Nine-Nine(Season 4, Episode 9).
Emily’s Highlighted Work:
Sean Combs:Diddy’s Indictment and Ongoing Legal Trouble, with reporting frominsideManhattan federal court
The Menendez Brothers:After Decades Behind Bars, New Evidence Might Rewrite their Fate(Plus:answersto your most-burning questions.)
Kouri Richins:She Wrote a Book on Grief After Her Husband Died. Did She Kill Him?
Noah Presgrove:An Oklahoma Teen’s Mysterious Death: ‘We Need to Find Out What Happened’
Natalee Holloway:Afterbreaking the detailsofthe murderof the Alabama teenager who went missing in Aruba in 2005, Emilycaught up with Natalee’s motherto discuss her 18-year journey to finding answers.
source: people.com
