Murdock News

Nigel the chinchilla was on a roll. In a supersized hamster ball, the dark-gray rodent tooled around the hardwood floor of the conference room, occasionally banging into a wall in his exuberance.

Tragedy has again struck the community of Murdock, Nebraska. Three members of a family from Murdock died as the result of a head-on collision west of Broken Bow Saturday afternoon.

Douglas County Crime Scene investigator David Kofoed was arraigned in Cass County on one count of evidence tampering Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Kofoed is accused of mishandling blood evidence in the 2006 double murder of Wayne and Sharmon Stock at their farmhouse in Murdock.

Seven years ago next week, Douglas County CSI director David Kofoed found a greasy impression of a car's oil pan on the pants of murder victim Mindy Schrieber near the Ruby Tuesday parking lot.

A Douglas County crime scene investigator makes his first court appearance on Wednesday.

Omaha, NE- Douglas County's head CSI goes on the defensive. The lead investigator who helps put criminals behind bars finds himself on the other side of the law.

He confessed to killing his own son and pleaded guilty to the crime, but now Ivan Henk wants his conviction thrown out.

Less than a week after being indicted for allegedly tampering with evidence in a homicide investigation, Douglas County's CSI commander is being sued in federal court by one of the men who was wrongfully charged in the double-murder case.

David Kofoed and his team of Douglas County sheriff's crime-scene investigators have handled several high-profile cases in the past decade.

The commander of the Douglas County crime scene investigations unit has been charged with evidence tampering in a double-murder case.

The Douglas County CSI director, who has processed evidence in numerous high-profile murder cases, faces criminal charges for his handling of evidence in a Murdock, Neb., double homicide.

A federal grand jury in Omaha is deliberating whether Nebraska law enforcement authorities committed crimes in the handling of evidence surrounding the 2006 slayings of a couple in their farmhouse outside Murdock, Neb.

A controversial bike trail has residents looking for roadblocks. A 10-mile section, a limestone sidewalk, would cut through the countryside southeast of Murdock, Nebraska connecting existing trails between Omaha and Lincoln.

At 5:02 National Weather Service radar was tracking a confirmed tornado near Murdock, about 20 miles east of Lincoln.

Elmwood-Murdock advances to the finals of the East Central Nebraska Conference tournament with a 52-37 win over Johnson County Central on Friday.

As Frank Sinatra would say, start spreadin' the news, the Elmwood-Murdock choir is going to New York City.

The Elmwood-Murdock High School choir director considered canceling an invitation to perform in New York City after three of her students died in a car crash.

Students at Elmwood-Murdock Junior-Senior High School had to do some shopping over the weekend, but not for Christmas presents.

New rules will be in effect for the Elmwood-Murdock Public Schools on Monday after a bomb threat at the high school.