5 moms whose sons were killed after they called 911 for help now live with the consequences of a failed mental health system that uses cops as a crutch

By Haven Orecchio-Egresitz

2021-01-27T17:21:47.000Z

Haven Orecchio-Egresitz was the senior editor overseeing Business Insider's legal affairs team. The team, which consists of several of the most senior reporters in BI's global newsroom, led the charge in covering Donald Trump's many legal issues, including his four criminal cases. As a senior criminal justice reporter at Insider's New York office, Haven wrote an award-winning six-part series on the US mental health system failures that led to police shootings of people in crisis; uncovered how a yoga guru to Hollywood elite operated an abusive international cult; reported from the NY federal court where R. Kelly was found guilty of sex crimes; and covered the Minneapolis trial of ex-officer Derek Chauvin. "Deaths in the Family," a year-long project she worked on with the Investigations Team, is the most comprehensive look at rising homicidal violence against transgender people in the US. Haven also covered Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine and the plight of refugees from the Ukrainian border in Beregsurany and Budapest. Haven previously worked on the crime, legal affairs, and investigations beats at several newspapers in Massachusetts. While working at the Cape Cod Times, and later The Berkshire Eagle, her reporting won awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association.Before that, Haven worked as a metro correspondent at The Boston Globe and contributed to the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning Marathon Bombing coverage.Haven is passionate about public records, government transparency, and bagels. ExpertiseTrauma reporting, legal affairs, criminal justice, policing, courts, extremism, cults, and breaking news. Popular articles 'Love us in private and kill us in public': How transphobia turns young men into killers5 moms whose sons were killed after they called 911 for help now live with the consequences of a failed mental health system that uses police as a crutchThe Proud Boys chairman says members of the extremist organization are running for office — and you might not know if you're voting for oneSome police chiefs genuinely want to fire their bad apples. Their department's history can make that almost impossible.Before the sudden death of its leader, Ra Ma Yoga Institute was accused by some former members of being a cult. What happens now?For 48 hours a Ukrainian family walked through rubble and scorched earth to a new life