Leonora LaPeter Anton

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An American Journalist

Leonora LaPeter Anton is a freelance writer with a passion for narrative nonfiction and investigative journalism. For 36 years, she was a staff writer at five southeastern newspapers, including more than two decades at the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times). Her stories have explored themes around criminal justice, true crime, aging, divorce, poverty, drug addiction and mental health.

Leonora was part of a three-person team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a series about violent conditions inside Florida’s psychiatric hospitals.

She also is the reporter and host of an 11-part podcast called Blood and Truth, about a man on Florida’s death row for 48 years who has been trying for decades to conduct DNA testing of his evidence.

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For 48 years, Tommy Zeigler has lived on death row for a quadruple murder at his family’s furniture store in Winter Garden, Fl. that he says he did not commit. For more than two decades, Zeigler’s attorneys sought to use DNA testing on the evidence in his case, but prosecutors fought it and judges agreed. Then a new state attorney took office.

An 11-Part Narrative

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A five-year divorce: Judge Joseph Bulone sits in chambers at the Pinellas County Courthouse in October 2012. At left, attorney LeAnne Lake, representing Murielle Fournier. At right, Terry Power, his own counsel.

The divorce from hell

A five-year divorce: Four judges, six lawyers, $400,000 in attorney and expert fees and costs, a child yanked back and forth, all the petty arguing, for what?

Insane. Invisible. In Danger.

The first story in the Tampa Bay Times’/Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s winning entry for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting

Stay or Go?

With a lot on his mind, a St. Petersburg High School teacher visits students at the Museum of Motherhood.

  • Originally published

    October 3, 2010

    No Longer King, Queen of their Castle

    A mansion, lavishly built during heady times, now serves as a boardinghouse in lean ones.

    Read this story at Tampa Bay Times →
  • Originally published

    May 30, 2010

    The Pain Clinic Next Door

    For all the pain the so-called pill mills in Tampa claimed to cure, for many the biggest relief came when authorities shut them down.

    Read this story at Tampa Bay Times →
  • Originally published

    March 10, 2010

    TO DREAM IS TO FLY FAR, FAR FROM UNCERTAINTY BELOW

    Read this story at Tampa Bay Times →
  • Originally published

    November 22, 2009

    A Key Realization

    At the intersection of freedom and responsibility, there is a hard choice.

    Read this story at Tampa Bay Times →
  • Originally published

    July 31, 2009

    TRYING TO LOCK UP A LIFELINE

    A refugee who uses his bike to get around and collect cans seeks help getting a lock.

    Read this story at Tampa Bay Times →
  • Originally published

    June 14, 2009

    This much is certain: A boy’s heart has been broken

    Read this story at Tampa Bay Times →
  • Originally published

    June 7, 2009

    Dr. Stein, The Big Daddy of Vasectomies

    Altering mankind isn’t just a living for this specialist. It’s his Earth-friendly contribution.

    Read this story at Tampa Bay Times →
  • Originally published

    August 17, 2008

    A Neighborhood Mobilizes Against Goose Grabbers

    The Crescent Lake fowl snatchers didn’t count on the attachment residents had for Mama’s family.

    Read this story at Tampa Bay Times →
  • Originally published

    August 2, 2008

    Recovering, One Session at a Time

    Read this story at Tampa Bay Times →
  • Originally published

    September 23, 2007

    Pain and Parenthood 

    Tracy McHugh’s kids kept getting sick. They started getting better when their mother was diagnosed.

    Read this story at Tampa Bay Times →
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