George Hale
"Buried" Host/ReporterGeorge Hale is a radio reporter for KETR and the host of its investigative podcast Buried.
Hale’s reporting focuses on law enforcement accountability in rural areas in northeast Texas. In 2017, Hale started a year-long investigation into a sheriff’s office’s mishandling of missing persons cases.
Prior to Buried, Hale’s reporting for KETR has focused on the environmental impact of development. In 2016, he produced a series of stories about a controversial reservoir’s approval.
Hale joined KETR in 2016 after spending nearly eight years reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has reported from Israel and the West Bank, Egypt and Jordan.
Hale has received three First Place awards for investigative reporting, environmental journalism and production work from the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters in the Radio II division.
Hale earned a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University in Washington, where he concentrated on Middle East security policy and Semitic languages. He also holds graduate certificate in Media Management from The New School in New York.
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Human remains found at Lake Tawakoni last fall have been matched to relatives of a northeast Texas woman who’s been missing since 1991. -
Divers at Lake Tawakoni say they have retrieved human remains during a search for a northeast Texas woman who’s been missing since 1991. -
Investigators in northeast Texas are convinced that a vehicle recovered from Lake Tawakoni last week belonged to Carey Mae Parker, who went missing in… -
The Trump administration has carried out its ninth federal execution of the year, putting to death a Texas street-gang member in the slayings of a religious couple from Iowa more than two decades ago.
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Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday that officials were working "aggressively" to respond to a shooting in Greenville, Texas, that left two people dead. "Texas… -
Buried creators George Hale and Jerrod Knight discuss a series of cadaver dog searches that began in January 2019. The Buried Lede is an opportunity to… -
In February 1991, a Quinlan police officer arrested Carey Mae Parker on a warrant for traffic offenses. Here's what happened next. Carey is arrested at 5… -
Highlights from the next episode of Buried, in which we hear from people working in the criminal justice system when Carey Mae Parker disappeared. Law… -
In the latest search for Carey Mae Parker, sheriff's deputies use ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs to scan properties in northeast Texas. -
Sheriffs deputies and volunteers searched a former residence of missing woman Carey Mae Parker's ex-boyfriend, a law enforcement official said…
