Yusuf Bey IV and Sgt. Derwin Longmire

September 4, 2009 – More communication between jailed Yusuf Bey IV and homicide detective Sgt. Derwin Longmire have been discovered. Among them:

Bey IV says Longmire “made sure the murder had nothing to do with me.”

Bey IV’s common-law wife, Alaia Bey, passes on a message that his sister, Jannah Bey, spoke with Longmire.

Bey IV tells Alaia Bey to call Longmire to help protect Your Black Muslim Bakery.

Bey IV calls Longmire from jail in February 2008.

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Bey IV tried to strong-arm follower

August 25, 2009 – In January 2008, five months after he was arrested, Yusuf Bey IV talks to Kahlil Raheem by telephone to try to convince him not to cooperate with the prosecutors’ investigation of a kidnapping and torture case.

Yusuf Bey IV talks with Kahil Raheem in January 2008 about Raheem’s cooperation with prosecutors.

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Path to Indictment

April 30, 2009 – An Alameda County criminal grand jury has indicted the former head of Your Black Muslim Bakery on three murder charges, including the August 2, 2007 killing of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. Reporter Bob Butler airs comments made by then-Senator Barack Obama about Bailey’s death and takes a look at all the facts uncovered by the Chauncey Bailey Project that finally led to the indictments.(read more)

Bey IV calls Sgt. Longmire from jail

March 7, 2009 – On June 28, 2008, and August 10, 2008, Yusuf Bey IV had his common law wife call Detective Sgt. Derwin Longmire and patch Bey IV through from the Santa Rita Jail. Longmire tells Bey IV he doesn’t “worry one ounce” that their relationship is under scrutiny. (read more)

Delayed raid may have cost Bailey his life

December 16, 2008 – The executive command staff of Oakland Police Department put off the 2007 raid on Your Black Muslim Bakery for 48 hours because two senior SWAT commanders were backpacking. Members of the command staff deny there was a delay and said the raid was always scheduled for Friday, August 3rd to give the SWAT teams time to prepare. But the Chauncey Bailey Project has talked to numerous officers who were at the bakery that day and other sources and they all say the raid was supposed to take place August 1st… and the delay likely cost Chauncey Bailey his life. (read more)

Chauncey Bailey Project on KGO Radio

July 9, 2008 – Executive Editor Robert J. Rosenthal, independent journalist Bob Butler and Oakland Tribune Editor Martin Reynolds discuss the latest news of the Chauncey Bailey Project on the Ronn Owens Program on KGO-AM 810. The three talk about the secret police video recently released by the project and about the project’s significance to journalism and to Oakland with Gill Gross, longtime news host standing in for the vacationing Owens. (read more)

Chauncey Bailey Project reporter Bob Butler reports on the investigation.

June 18, 2008 – A secretly recorded video raises questions about who is responsible for Chauncey Bailey’s murder. (read more)

Bob Butler reports on the 22-year-old murder case.

April 9, 2008 – The Chauncey Bailey Project uncovers a link between the murder of Peter August Kaufman in June 1986 and Yusuf Ali Bey, the late founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery, where Kaufman worked. (read more)

Police reopen 1968 slaying investigation

March 25, 2008 – An investigation by the Chauncey Bailey Project has prompted Police in Santa Barbara to reopen an investigation into the unsolved 1968 shooting deaths of a couple affiliated with a mosque that was the forerunner to Oakland’s Your Black Muslim Bakery. Detectives could arrive in the East Bay from Southern California as early as this week to talk to Abdul Raab Mohammad, who, at the time of the double murder, was known as Billy Stephens when he was minister of the mosque in Santa Barbara. Reporter Bob Butler takes a look at the case, then and now. (read more)

Police: Chauncey Bailey murder similar to 40-year-old slaying

March 25, 2008 – KQED Public Radio report Judy Campbell explores the discovery by the Chauncey Bailey Project of an unsolved murder that Santa Barbara police say is similar to the Aug. 2 slaying of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey.(read more)

Recording interrogations

Dec. 17, 2007 – In California, police can record their interrogations of
murder suspects, but there is no requirement to do so. That’s cause for
concern among some legal experts who say the recordings protect
suspects — and the public — against coerced confessions. Judy
Campbell reports.(read more)

A holiday without Chauncey

November 27, 2007 – Bay Area radio journalist Bob Butler interviews Chauncey Bailey’s family in Atlanta as they reflect on spending Thanksgiving 2007 without their slain brother. (read more)

New questions surrounding Chauncey Bailey’s murder investigation

October 11, 2007 – Audio from the KQED-produced newsmagazine
California Report with reporter Scott Shafer. UC Berkeley journalism
professor Neil Henry says Bailey’s death raises a lot of questions
journalists want to answer. (read more)

Experts question whether faster police action could have saved Bailey’s life

October 11, 2007 – KQED public broadcasting reporter Judy Campbell explores the police timing of their raid of Your Black Muslim Bakery, which came one day after the shotgun slaying of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. (read more)

Devaughndre Broussard pleads not guilty to
charges that he murdered editor Chauncey Bailey

January 24, 2008 – Devaughndre Broussard’s attorney, LeRue Grim, tells reporters that Yusuf Bey IV, CEO of Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, could have information that would exonerate his client. (read more)

Broker associated with bakery accused of deceit

November 11, 2007 – Bay Area radio journalist Bob Butler interviews Markus Machado and Gail Mateo about the real estate deal brokered by Esperanza Johnson, a leader at Your Black Muslim Bakery for 20 years, that may cost them their home. (read more)