John Ellement is a Metro reporter for The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...

 and has been for more than 20 years. He graduated from Northeastern University in 1981 and grew up in South Buffalo, New York. He has covered courts and crimes in the Greater Boston Area since 1988. Some of the well-known cases he has extensively covered include the so-called Craigslist Killer

Craigslist Killer

Craigslist Killer is a name given by the media to individuals who were accused of murdering their victims after meeting the victims through Craigslist, a popular classified advertising website...

'http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/08/24/im_not_quite_sure_what_im_supposed_to_remember_i_dont_lose_much_thought_over_it/, New England Patriot Nick Kaczur

Nick Kaczur

Nicholas Jesse Kaczur is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft...

's drug use http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/06/by_shelley_murp_1.html, abortion clinic killer John Salvi

John Salvi

John C. Salvi III was an abortion opponent who carried out fatal terrorist attacks on two Planned Parenthood reproductive health clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts, on December 30, 1994. These were the subject of intense media coverage...

, Clark Rockefeller

Clark Rockefeller

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter is a German man who moved to the United States as a teenager to study, and thereafter assumed many aliases. Using the false name Clark Rockefeller, he married a Harvard Business School graduate student named Sandra Boss...

, the kidnapping and murder of Melissa Gosule and what became the national story of Arrest of Henry Louis Gates.

He now lives on Boston's South Shore.