Investigative Producer Alice McQuillan is an award-winning reporter, writer, true-crime author and editor with more than 20 years experience as a journalist.

At WNBC-TV, she specializes in criminal justice exclusives and investigative pieces about political corruption and social injustice. She also contributes to the station's coverage of breaking news stories.

Working with reporter Jonathan Dienst and investigative producer Joseph Valiquette, Ms. McQuillan has helped produce special reports and exclusives, including:

-- Exoneration of murder suspect Lourdes Torres, who says she had falsely confessed to murder.

-- "Tapping the Mob," a three-part series giving a rare inside look at the Gambino crime family by featuring the conversations of reputed mobsters. The New York Press Club gave this series its Crime News Award in 2006.

-- Criminal investigations of Bernard Kerik, former New York City Police Commissioner, Jeanine Pirro, former Westchester County District Attorney and Republican candidate for New York State Attorney General, State Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin and Lindley DeVecchio, a retired FBI agent.

-- "Murder on Madison Avenue," profiles of two survivors of domestic violence: a son orphaned by a murder-suicide and a fiancée critically wounded in the tragedy.

-- "Heroin's New Face," a two-part series on the epidemic of teen heroin addiction in New Jersey.

-- Subway terror threat in New York City, awarded Best in Continuing Coverage by the New York Press Club in 2006, and the train attacks in London and Madrid.

-- Suspected financial links between overseas terrorists and domestic cigarette counterfeiters.

The daughter of a retired sergeant who served 36 years with the New York City Police Department, Ms. McQuillan spent a decade covering the NYPD from One Police Plaza for the New York Daily News.

She wrote "They Call Them Grifters," (2000 Penguin Putnam), about serial killers Sante and Kenneth Kimes. USA Films optioned the book, which developed from Ms. McQuillan's stories on the Kimes' last victim, East Sider Irene Silverman.

Ms. McQuillan's exclusives on the unraveling of the Central Park jogger verdicts contributed to the 2003 Excellence in Journalism News Analysis Award given to the paper by the Society of the Silurians. In 1998 and 1995, she shared in the Associated Press' first place prizes for team reporting for "Terror at Empire State," and the "LIRR Massacre."

At the Boston Herald, she covered the Panama invasion and investigated unsolved serial killings in New Bedford and the murder of a feminist law professor in Cambridge before being promoted to city editor.

As a reporter for the Staten Island Advance, Ms. McQuillan proposed a well-received feature series on immigrants and a news series on the crack epidemic, which won the 1986 public service reporting award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Upon graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she worked as a reporter and editor for the Daily Yomiuri, an English language paper in Tokyo.

She graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College.