A man raced to the top of a bridge over Tampa Bay. He pulled his five-year-old daughter out of the car and dropped her into the cold water below.
You couldn’t help but hear about the story, especially in the Tampa Bay area. Everyone knew what happened to Phoebe Jonchuck in January 2015, months before Tampa Bay Times reporter Lane DeGregory even considered reporting on her killing.
It was easy to find over 70 written stories and countless television news pieces about the murder in Florida alone. What would DeGregory have to add? She pushed back against her editor and the executive editor when they asked her to report on it. She didn’t want to spend the next six months thinking about an over-reported story, especially one that was devastatingly sad. It would be too hard. There was no hope.
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