Angie Ricono
Investigative Reporter

Angie Ricono joined the KCTV5 News team as an investigative reporter in October 2015.
Before that, she worked worked in Philadelphia, PA and Lexington, KY.
Angie has won numerous awards for her reporting including a Regional Edward R. Murrow award for investigations. She was also name Associated Press’s Reporter of the Year in New Jersey for her coverage related to the September 11 attacks and the beltway sniper.
At KCTV5, Angie looks into closed cases, legal issues and policies and procedures that don’t make sense.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2023 at 10:48 AM CST
|By Angie Ricono and Gray News staff
A newly filed federal lawsuit claims a 15-year-old boy from Kansas City, Missouri, died from sepsis stemming from an ear infection.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2023 at 10:20 AM CST
|By Angie Ricono and Debra Worley
A homeowner in Kansas City has a portable toilet outside her suburban home because she’s having a hard time getting repairs.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2023 at 2:58 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Gray News staff
A Kansas City couple is now living out of an RV after working with a deceptive builder to build their dream "barndominium."
Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 10:26 AM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Gray News staff
Lawton said she was up in the middle of the night grabbing a bottle of milk for her infant son when she heard something in her driveway.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2023 at 5:13 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
Gabrielle Lawron is suing Hyundai after she was shot while trying to prevent two men from stealing her car.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2023 at 6:27 PM CDT
|By Heidi Schmidt, Gabe Swartz and Angie Ricono
An email revealing an interaction between former Overland Park Police Chief Frank Donchez and a grieving mother led to Donchez’s resignation Tuesday night.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2023 at 4:42 PM CDT
|By Cyndi Fahrlander and Angie Ricono
Her son believes the stress and anger she experienced were contributing factors to her death.
Updated: Jul. 25, 2023 at 6:15 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
A Kansas City student captured a road rage moment with her cell phone and now questions the lack of response from the Johnson County prosecutor.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2023 at 6:04 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
Casey Maschler is a single working mother. She contacted KCTV5 out of sheer frustration after a seven-month battle to get benefits for her son.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2023 at 6:25 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
The parents of a 6-year-old girl who drowned at Oceans of Fun last summer claim park staff made the young girl take off her life jacket when she first entered the waterpark.
Updated: Jun. 12, 2023 at 2:53 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
John and Brandi Scaletty describe a random attack by a group of men outside Arrowhead Stadium prior to Saturday’s Luke Combs concert that started with someone opening the hatch to their SUV.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 3:51 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
He tweeted that when his sister called 911 for their mother Wednesday, she waited on hold for five minutes.
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 5:40 AM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
Our Investigative team traveled to Frankfort, Kansas, in Marshall County to reveal the challenges communities face as trains get longer and longer.
Updated: May. 15, 2023 at 11:09 AM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
Chris Dunn was convicted in a 1990 Saint Louis murder of teenager Ricco Rogers.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2023 at 11:58 AM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) surveyed Children’s Lighthouse in March, following a complaint by a parent.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2023 at 5:55 PM CDT
|By Cyndi Fahrlander and Angie Ricono
Reid is currently in prison at Tipton Correctional Center serving a three-year sentence for the crash.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 6:54 AM CDT
|By Cyndi Fahrlander and Angie Ricono
A Kansas mother continues to fight the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Department for the death records of her son.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2023 at 7:00 PM CDT
|By Cyndi Fahrlander and Angie Ricono
Our investigative team went inside the Kansas City Police Department crime lab to get a first-hand look at what is being sold on the streets in the Kansas City metro area.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 9:34 AM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
His family tried to nurse the mini-Labradoodle back to health for a week following the initial emergency surgery.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 4:34 AM CDT
|By Cyndi Fahrlander, Angie Ricono and Gray News staff
An animal control report details a lack of cooperation from the boarding facility's staff while seeking information about the attack.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2023 at 3:15 PM CDT
|By Cyndi Fahrlander and Angie Ricono
KCTV5 continues to report on a dog attack inside an Olathe boarding facility that killed a 15-year-old Pomeranian mix named Bauer.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 7:48 AM CST
|By Angie Ricono and Melonne McBride
A woman thought her son was on a day trip in Missouri. She found her car at the airport and quickly realized her husband took her son and left the country.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 7:23 PM CST
|By Angie Ricono and Andrew McMunn
A man serving time for a 2002 murder conviction has died in prison Wednesday morning from cancer, his family said.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 3:11 PM CST
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
A Kansas state investigation found 188 clergy members suspected of crimes including aggravated criminal sodomy, rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aggravated sexual battery
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 8:31 AM CST
|By Angie Ricono
Jackman is one of at least three men who are convicted of raping women in the Westport area in the 1980s.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 3:31 PM CST
|By Greg Dailey and Angie Ricono
Victims alleged multiple accounts of rape and sexual abuse, along with kidnapping and threatening of teen girls at the Delevan Townhomes Apartments.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 2:28 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
Felicia Miller said Britt Reid does not deserve any deal and he should face the maximum sentence for what happened to her daughter Ariel.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2022 at 8:46 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
It’s a big day for Rich Martinez—one he’s waited six years for. He finally got his dream car back.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 4:08 PM CDT
|By Greg Dailey, Angie Ricono and Emily Rittman
Britt Reid pleaded guilty to DWI - causing serious physical injury on Sept. 12. More than six weeks later, he will be sentenced.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 9:18 AM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
Felicia Miller said her daughter didn’t recognize her own mother when she woke from her coma following the crash involving Britt Reid.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 12:33 PM CDT
|By Greg Dailey and Angie Ricono
He had been charged in connection with the DWI-related crash that left 5-year-old Ariel Young with traumatic brain injuries.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 2:57 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
Britt Reid will enter his guilty plea on Monday, Sept. 12, at 10 a.m.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 12:55 PM CDT
|By Cyndi Fahrlander, Angie Ricono and The Associated Press
If it passes, Missouri would join 18 other states which have completely legalized marijuana for recreational use.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 10:17 AM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
It’s a big task: Placing thousands of beagles removed from a breeding and testing facility in Virginia. That facility also bred the dogs to supply other labs that test on animals.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 5:30 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
An attorney who served as a federal prosecutor and judge says the search warrant served in the Unified Government is likely connected to a criminal investigation.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 1:04 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
The unknown person who sent a confusing text message encouraging voters to vote “Yes” has been suspended from the social media platform Twilio.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 4:30 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
Planned Parenthood of Great Plains explained some patients are scheduling appointments for abortion services three weeks out.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 3:25 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
A “yes” vote would remove constitutional protections and allow lawmakers to restrict and possibly ban abortion.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 6:51 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
The Johnson County Sheriff is now accusing the county attorney of breaking the law and providing a public document to reporters.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2022 at 12:54 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
Nearly three weeks after Missouri’s “trigger law” prohibiting abortion went into effect, the state is trying to clarify its position on some points of the law.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2022 at 2:59 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
What started as an unfortunate incident for a Kansas couple turned into a daylong nightmare, and it could have been worse.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2022 at 6:24 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
It happens every day. Someone drops a check into a mailbox and trusts that it will reach its destination. Many of us rely on the post office for sending important documents and payments. Most of the time, the documents and payments are safely delivered. But, not always.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 10:14 AM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
The KCK Police Department is opening up about a suspected fentanyl overdose and how fast a response might have made all the difference.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 2:30 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
Tyrone Pouncil suffers from a rare genetic disorder that caused blindness as a child.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2022 at 4:00 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono, Cyndi Fahrlander and Andrew McMunn
Millions of people take it every day without a thought. It can help cure a headache, relieve other aches and pains, and reduce a fever. But it can also poison you.
Updated: May. 30, 2022 at 4:32 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
A police investigation which led to a shooting Friday night is now the subject of social media video. An eyewitness claims the woman shot by KCPD was unarmed.
Updated: May. 26, 2022 at 10:58 AM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
Shawn Parcells admitted in court he was guilty of wire fraud, acknowledging a scheme to transfer money between states.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 4:04 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
The Show Me State has 26 locations and has been atop the list for a decade.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2022 at 1:20 PM CDT
|By Cyndi Fahrlander and Angie Ricono
Katherine Konon had been accused of hitting a six-month-old boy that was in her care in 2019, causing a brain bleed.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2022 at 4:17 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
Michael Politte was 14 years old when his mother died.