Jamie Grey
Director of Investigations

Jamie specializes in crime, political and data investigative reporting and producing. Prior to coming to InvestigateTV, she was an assistant professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and managing editor/chief investigator for the NBC affiliate in the Columbia/Jefferson City area. She has prior reporting experience in Iowa and Idaho and has won various state and regional awards for her investigative work. Jamie is a graduate of Mizzou, with degrees in journalism and higher education leadership and policy analysis.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM CST
|By Wade Smith, Jamie Grey and Emily Featherston
InvestigateTV examines how AI can not only be harnessed in positive ways, but also how it can be used by bad actors to trick people out of their money and play on emotions.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM CDT
|By Joce Sterman, Daniela Molina, Jill Riepenhoff, Jamie Grey and Scotty Smith
After assisting our reporting behind the scenes for months and supplying medical records, a military physician turned whistleblower goes on the record with InvestigateTV, opening up about his experience working in DHA facilities from coast to coast.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM CDT
|By Caresse Jackman and Jamie Grey
Patients often don’t realize that the same procedure at different locations (even with the same insurance) can have very different out-of-pocket costs.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM CDT
|By Heather Graf, Jamie Grey and Charlie Roth
Some designers & business owners say there’s a dark side to some low-price online deals, and they fear artificial intelligence is making it worse
Updated: Sep. 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM CDT
|By Kristin Crowley, Scotty Smith, Jamie Grey, Wade Smith and Emily Featherston
Could you tell if that viral image or video you see on your favorite social media platform is real or AI? Our investigators ask the experts for the answers you need to know.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM CDT
|By Chris Nakamoto, Jill Riepenhoff and Jamie Grey
NIL regulations vary by state for high school athletes. Our investigators take an in-depth look at the journey of Jada Williams and Richie Clementi as they navigate the business side of sports at a young age.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Jamie Grey and Joce Sterman
What should you look for when researching nursing facilities? How can you find what you need? Our investigators help you here.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Caresse Jackman and Jamie Grey
The independence of the federal agency to oversee consumer products and to create safety regulations now is at risk.
Updated: Jul. 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Jamie Grey and Caresse Jackman
A judge determined that the Trump administration's firing of three commissioners for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission was unlawful and ordered their immediate reinstatement.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM CDT
|By Jamie Grey, Emily Featherston, Lee Zurik, Jon Decker and Cory Johnson
Foreign entities have bought 13 million more U.S. farm acres in 10 years, but agriculture policy scholars say the total could be far more.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM CDT
|By Jamie Grey
According to the Federal Trade Commission, over 850,000 people filed claims over government imposter scams in 2023.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Caresse Jackman and Jamie Grey
A directive by the White House in May to fire the three Democrats on the 5-member U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has left an untold number of proposed safety rules in limbo.
Updated: May 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Jamie Grey and Caresse Jackman
The three Democrats who serve on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced they were fired by President Donald Trump but say he has no authority to do so.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM CDT
|By Emily Featherston, Joce Sterman, Scotty Smith and Jamie Grey
NTSB recommendations gleaned from accident investigations are not always adopted — even after additional deadly crashes.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM CDT
|By Joce Sterman, Scott Smith, Brandon Wissbaum and Jamie Grey
Idling trains are a huge problem in communities across the country - with emissions impacting the environment and the health of people who live nearby as trains sit for hours pumping out pollutants.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM CDT
|By Joce Sterman, Daniela Molina and Jamie Grey
InvestigateTV discovered this industry is operating in a medical gray area, with numerous questions being raised about treatments, sanitation and oversight.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM CST
|By Joce Sterman, Emily Featherston, Jamie Grey, Brandon Wissbaum and Scotty Smith
Following the deadly midair collision on Wednesday, our investigators found that dozens of close calls have been reported at Reagan National since 2010.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM CST
|By Jill Riepenhoff and Jamie Grey
When a new toy or baby invention hits the market, most parents assume those products have undergone rigorous safety testing. Our investigators found this isn't always the case.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM CST
|By Brendan Keefe, Jamie Grey and Emily Featherston
The sidewalks of the French Quarter are now protected by portable, 700-pound barriers that the City already had in its possession.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM CST
|By Brendan Keefe, Jamie Grey and Emily Featherston
Workers in New Orleans have added temporary barricades near Bourbon Street to stop possible, future attacks, but why were the existing barricades not used on New Year's Day?
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 10:14 AM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
Parents, consumer advocates, pediatricians and others are sounding alarms about a baby product named in death reports: weighted infant sleepwear.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2024 at 3:25 PM CDT
|By Jamie Grey, Jill Riepenhoff and Lee Zurik
Recalls of dangerous consumer products can sometimes take months if not years. But even after a recall, similar-looking products remain on the market. InvestigateTV examined toys that had been recalled and similar-looking products that weren't.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2024 at 1:48 PM CST
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
Thousands of children have been injured by ingesting water beads - tiny specks about the size of a cookie sprinkle that expand 100 times their size when exposed to water.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2023 at 2:48 PM CST
|By Emily Featherston, Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
Patients and doctors say the health insurance claims process is increasingly lacking humanity as one major insurance company is taken to court over its use of a computer program.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 at 4:25 PM CDT
|By Brendan Keefe, Olivia Oliver and Jamie Grey
School shooters are showing up with rifles, but school officers first on the scene are often armed only with a pistol.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 2:04 PM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Jamie Grey, Lee Zurik, Austin Hedgcoth and Conner Hendricks
Every year, the CPSC finds thousands of everyday household products for sale online or arriving at shipping ports that fail to meet federal safety standards. It is illegal to sell products in the U.S. that have been banned, recalled or failed to meet federal safety standards.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2023 at 2:09 PM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
An InvestigateTV analysis of Consumer Product Safety Commission data shows that since 2000, the agency has had to re-announce the recall of at least 46 products because the original alert did not reach the ears of consumers and, in many cases, continued to cause harm.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2023 at 12:02 PM CDT
|By Joce Sterman and Jamie Grey
President Joe Biden's administration is leading a push to get more electric vehicles on the road, but the lack of charging infrastructure, particularly in rural areas, poses a challenge for potential EV drivers.
Permission to Practice: Doctors, patients say insurance prior-authorizations put profits over people
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 2:53 PM CDT
|By Emily Featherston, Jamie Grey, Lee Zurik, Bailey Williams and Payton Romans
Insurance companies say these reviews lower costs and protect patients, but what requires advance permission varies plan to plan, and critics argue the policies get between a patient and their doctor.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 11:13 AM CST
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
When a company learns a product it sells could be defective and dangerous, it has 24 hours to let the federal government’s Consumer Product Safety Commission know about it. But it could take months or years for the public to find out about the company’s possible concerns, if they even come to light at all. InvestigateTV has been battling CPSC and companies to disclose information about the products companies have sounded the alarm on – an alarm that remains relatively silent.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 8:53 AM CDT
|By Madison McVan, Investigate Midwest, Emily Featherston and Jamie Grey
Experts say $23 billion USDA program set a precedent for spending without Congressional oversight and had a concerning mix of political influence and limited compliance monitoring.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 12:49 PM CDT
|By Joce Sterman, Jamie Grey and Daniela Molina
Electric vehicle fires can start when cars are parked or charging, which car safety experts say make them different and more shocking than other car fires. Companies are working on implementing a fix for defective batteries, but it's taking longer than owners would like.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 4:45 PM CDT
|By Joce Sterman, Daniela Molina, Jon Decker, Jamie Grey, Justine Arens, Yelta Reyna, Hannah Lorenzo, Samantha Latson, Lizzie Wright and Lauren Truex
The law allows states to create their own special education policies based on the federal IDEA framework. As a result, there are varying policies and parents are left trying to navigate complicated systems.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 4:19 PM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
After the deaths of 13 children over the last 12 years, this summer, Fisher-Price and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned parents not to let their children sleep in certain rockers the company has made since the 1990s. Now, InvestigateTV has discovered that during a 2021 Congressional hearing, the company dodged questions about whether it currently had products on the market linked to children’s deaths.
Updated: May 23, 2022 at 5:34 PM CDT
|By Jamie Grey, Lee Zurik and Payton Romans
Sometimes a surgeon is the salesman. Across the country, there are physician-owned distributorships where doctors own part of a medical device company and then buy (or have their hospital buy) that hardware to use in their own surgeries.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2022 at 12:24 PM CDT
|By Emily Featherston, Jon Decker and Jamie Grey
The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act requires research into the gender gap in vehicle crash testing, but lawmakers want Secretary Pete Buttigieg to take action now to close the Collision Division.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 5:18 PM CST
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Lee Zurik and Jamie Grey
It takes years for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to remove dangerous products from the market because of its cumbersome rule-making process and ineffective recalls that don’t incentivize consumers to return or destroy dangerous items.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2022 at 5:08 PM CST
|By Emily Featherston, Lee Zurik and Jamie Grey
Programs bridging public schools and homeschooling are growing fast, but critics worry about what that means for the future of education.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2021 at 2:05 PM CDT
|By Emily Featherston, Lee Zurik, Jon Decker and Jamie Grey
As lawmakers debate including female drivers in more crash test standards, the agency in charge is staying quiet.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2021 at 1:47 PM CDT
|By Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
Updated daily, this COVID-19 hotspot map illustrates where the largest number of new cases (relative to population) have been reported in the last seven days.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2021 at 4:56 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik, Jamie Grey, Jill Riepenhoff, Daniela Molina and Owen Hornstein
Bridging the Great Health Divide explores issues in rural America through the lens of residents, doctors and other health care providers.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2021 at 12:17 PM CDT
|By Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
Gray Television stations will air a documentary about disparities in rural health care and the people working to bridge the great health divide.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2021 at 5:24 PM CDT
|By Jamie Grey, Lee Zurik and Daniela Molina
The purpose of the food stamp program is to help low-income families access healthy foods, but in rural America, that can be difficult.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2021 at 12:28 PM CDT
|By Emily Featherston, Jon Decker, Lee Zurik and Jamie Grey
Bills in both the U.S. House and Senate look to update crash test dummies and testing procedures to make sure drivers are equally protected.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2021 at 4:05 PM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Daniela Molina, Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
Before last year food insecurity impacted about 10% of all U.S. residents. Experts estimate that number has at least doubled since the pandemic.
Updated: May 17, 2021 at 3:01 PM CDT
|By Emily Featherston, Lee Zurik, Jackson Hicks and Jamie Grey
The federal government gives out subsidies to help farms through tough times, but much of the information about these taxpayer-funded payments is kept secret.
Updated: May 10, 2021 at 1:47 PM CDT
|By Emily Featherston, Lee Zurik, Jon Decker and Jamie Grey
Experts say one of the most advertised safety standards largely doesn't account for more than half of all licensed drivers.
Updated: May 3, 2021 at 3:13 PM CDT
|By Aneri Pattani, Hannah Recht and Jamie Grey
Across the nation, nearly 800,000 people suffer strokes each year. When someone has a stroke, minutes matter, but hospital closures and other access issues mean millions of people find it difficult to get specialty stroke care quickly.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 11:46 AM CDT
|By Jamie Grey and Sandra Jones
The federal government is cracking down on people it says fraudulently applied for and, in some cases, received money through pandemic relief funding programs.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2021 at 9:03 PM CDT
|By Jill Riepenhoff, Daniela Molina, Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
In 207 counties in 2018, there wasn’t a family, general or internal medicine doctor – the primary care doctors mainly for adults, according to an InvestigateTV analysis of federal data.




























































