The Investigation
 
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On Jan. 25, 2002, two days after my friend and Wall Street Journal colleague Danny Pearl left my home in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview from which he didn't return, I stood in front of a dining room wall I'd covered in blank paper, a thick black Sharpie pen in my hand. I wrote one name in the middle, "DANNY," and drew a box around it.
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Robert Manuel
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investigation overview

Since August 2007, faculty and students in the Pearl Project have investigated the murder of Danny Pearl. We hope to complete our investigation by the end of 2008 and publish our results soon afterwards.

We're pursuing leads in the following areas in the United States and Pakistan:

  • Law Enforcement
  • Intelligence
  • Media
  • Court documents
  • Freedom of Information Act requests
  • Families and friends of those involved