Officer Jeffrey Cujdik, of the Philadelphia Police Department’s Narcotics Field Unit. He recruited Benny Martinez as Confidential Informant 103. (David Maialetti/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Daily News)
Raul Nieves’s lawyer Stephen Patrizio was the first person to suspect something was amiss. (Yong Kim/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Daily News)
The row house at 1939 East Pacific Street that Jeff Cujdik rented to Benny Martinez, below market rate, as part of their arrangement. (Courtesy of the authors)
Michael Days, editor of the Philadelphia Daily News. (Jessica Griffin/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Daily News)
The first article about Benny Martinez, featuring a silhouette photograph of him to conceal his identity, ran on the front page of the February 9, 2009, edition of the Philadelphia Daily News under a headline that would come to define the series. (Courtesy of Philadelphia Daily News)
Lady Gonzalez, the first woman to say that she was sexually assaulted by a Philadelphia Narcotics Field Unit officer during a raid. (Sarah J. Glover/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Daily News)
Brian Tierney (right), owner of the Philadelphia Daily News, after the first day of the 2009 bankruptcy hearing at Philadelphia’s Federal Courthouse. (Elizabeth Robertson/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Inquirer)
From left: Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey; Janice Fedarcyk, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia field office; and Mayor Michael Nutter at a joint press conference held on February 13, 2009, to address Wendy and Barbara’s story. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Daily News)
John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police, speaks out against the Philadelphia Daily News at a February 25, 2009, press conference. George Bochetto, Jeff Cujdik’s lawyer, is on the right. (David Maialetti/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Daily News)
Just some of the boxes of search warrants that Wendy and Barbara waded through for their stories. (Courtesy of the authors)
This frame of surveillance video from Jose Duran’s store shows Narcotics Field Unit officer Anthony Parrotti poised to cut the camera wires with a bread knife. The frame was run on the front page of the March 30, 2009, edition of the Philadelphia Daily News. (Courtesy of Jose Duran and Philadelphia Daily News)
Another still, which was published in the Philadelphia Daily News with faces blurred, shows Narcotics Field Unit officer Thomas Tolstoy (foreground) checking out the camera. Cujdik is directly behind him. Tolstoy was identified by at least three women as the officer who sexually assaulted them during raids. (Courtesy of Jose Duran)
The aftermath of the Philadelphia Narcotics Unit raid on Jose Duran’s store. (Courtesy of Jose Duran)
Angel Castro hugs his Thayer Street neighbor Dagma Rodriguez, another woman who said she was assaulted by Officer Tolstoy. (David Maialetti/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Daily News)
“Naomi,” the third of Officer Tolstoy’s alleged sexual assault victims to come forward, appears in silhouette on the cover of the June 17, 2009, edition of the Philadelphia Daily News. (David Maialetti/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Daily News, courtesy of Philadelphia Daily News)
The photograph of Wendy with her father that Wendy slipped under her pillow for luck the night before the 2010 Pulitzer Prize announcements. (Courtesy of Wendy Ruderman)
Before the Pulitzer announcement, Barbara drew strength by praying to her mother. This photo of Barbara’s mother sat on her desk. (Courtesy of Barbara Laker)
City editor Gar Joseph, Barbara (center), and Wendy react to the news of their Pulitzer Prize win on April 12, 2010. (Sarah J. Glover/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Daily News)
Brian Tierney, about to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a Phillies game, wears a shirt that captures the spirit of the Philadelphia Daily News. (Yong Kim/Staff Photographer/Philadelphia Daily News)