The case sparked a number of Connecticut law enforcement reforms, including programs designed to protect witnesses in criminal cases.

The man served 25 years in the killings, then was serving a federal drug sentence when he was granted clemency by the Biden administration.

Adrian Peeler, the man convicted of conspiracy in the 1999 killings of a mother and her son in Bridgeport, has been released from prison.

Despite Adrian Peeler being the alleged shooter, a jury only convicted him of murder conspiracy and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison on the charge and five more years on other charges.

A man involved in a high-profile murder case in Bridgeport in 1999 was released from a federal prison in West Virginia on Wednesday after being granted clemency for a drug conviction, and questions ...

Bridgeport Mayor Joseph P. Ganim is among those expressing outrage about the release of Adrian Peeler from prison. Peeler was convicted in connection with the 1999 ...

Adrian Peeler walked out of a federal prison in West Virginia on Wednesday, to the disbelief of Mayor Joe Ganin, who said the details surrounding Peeler’s clemency and release haven’t been shared with ...

BRIDGEPORT — Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim on Thursday plans to discuss the release of Adrian Peeler, convicted in the deaths of a Bridgeport woman and her 8-year-old son, after he was granted ...

BRIDGEPORT — It's not that Mayor Joe Ganim believes rehabilitation is impossible for Adrian Peeler, he said Thursday in the park named for the 8-year-old boy Peeler was convicted of conspiring ...

It seems to me that someone dropped the ball here to let this person get released,” Senator Richard Blumenthal said. “This was a really vicious murder that changed our laws.