Christine Pelisek

Title: Senior Crime Writer
Location: Los Angeles, California

Christine Pelisek has 20 years of experience as a reporter, covering crime and courts. 

She joined the PEOPLE crime team in 2014.

She is the author of the Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central.


Experience

Christine Pelisek has worked as a reporter covering crime and courts for 20 years. She joined the PEOPLE crime team in 2014. She is the author of the Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central.

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Latest from Christine Pelisek

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Corey Comperatore
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Phil Spector listens on the last day of the prosecution's final rebuttal during closing arguments in his retrial on murder charges;Lana Clarkson at the Radisson Hotel at LAX
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Cooper Roberts
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File photo of Lucy Letby who carried out the killings between June 2015 and June 2016 on the unit where she worked in the Countess of Chester hospital.
Lucy Letby Found Guilty at Retrial of Attempting to Murder Baby Girl: 'Cold-Blooded, Calculated Killer'
Bryson Muir, Daniel Muir
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Joselyn Toaquiza
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Matthew Perry
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Elizabeth Smart attends Touchdowns on the Green, the Inaugural Inaugural Tim & Sherice Brown Celebrity Golf Invitational to Blitz Human Trafficking before Super Bowl LVIII at Topgolf Las Vegas on February 8, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Regla "Su" Becquer
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Shailyn Diaz
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Horseback-Riding Couple Struck By Truck While Searching for Missing Boy
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Gabby Petito
Gabby Petito's Stepdad, a Firefighter, Aims to Help First Responders Recognize Domestic Violence (Exclusive)
Danielle Cherakiyah Johnson eclipse murder
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Kimberly Langwell
Texas Woman Vanished 25 Years Ago. Was Her Body Just Found on Her Ex-Boyfriend's Property?
Jim Jones in his office in San Francisco, California on July 3, 1976.
Survivor Jackie Speier Had a Premonition About Jonestown. Then a Real-Life Nightmare Unfolded (Exclusive)
Shannan Gilbert, Long Island serial killer victim
Her Disappearance Led Authorities to the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer. So Why Isn’t Shannan Gilbert's Death Considered a Murder?
Timmeka Eggleton DOB 11/9/1992.
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Davis Martinez
A Parole Agent Went to Check on a Sex Offender. He Wound Up Dead and Stuffed into Plastic Bag
Pamela Smart, 23, takes the oath before sitting in the witness stand in Rockingham County Superior Court in Exeter, N.H., in this file photo taken Monday, March 18, 1991.
Pamela Smart, Who Encouraged Teen Boy to Kill Her Husband, Accepts Responsibility for Crime
File photo of Lucy Letby who carried out the killings between June 2015 and June 2016 on the unit where she worked in the Countess of Chester hospital.
Why Will Killer Nurse Lucy Letby Go Back to Court Tomorrow for Another Trial? 
Madeleine McCann, Christian Brueckner
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