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 almost 50 years, who has been trying for decades to conduct DNA testing of his evidence.
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.
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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?
The first story in the Tampa Bay Times’/Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s winning entry for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting
With a lot on his mind, a St. Petersburg High School teacher visits students at the Museum of Motherhood.
It’s no game to her.
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