Cody Lillich
Senior Investigative Producer
Arizona's Family

Cody Lillich joined Arizona's Family Investigates in January 2022. Prior to Arizona, Cody was an investigative producer for WVUE-TV in New Orleans where he worked alongside the station's chief investigative reporter Lee Zurik. During his time in New Orleans, Cody was part of an investigative team honored with multiple regional Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Awards. The team's 'Inspecting the Inspectors' investigation looked into the missteps by city inspectors before the 2019 deadly collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel. The reports exposed that three city inspectors signed off on building inspections, while GPS coordinates on their city vehicles show they were never at the site on the dates in question.
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Updated: Aug. 26, 2023 at 4:46 PM CDT
|By Morgan Loew, Cody Lillich and Jordan Gartner
A car buyer in Arizona says everything appeared legitimate when he was making a recent purchase.
Updated: May. 24, 2022 at 2:12 PM CDT
|By Morgan Loew, Cody Lillich, Gilbert Zermeño and Gray News staff
Wolnik says one study from a title company estimated that 90 percent of deed fraud is carried out by family members or friends of the victim. The remaining 10 percent of cases involve criminals who target the victims.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2021 at 10:29 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Cody Lillich
Nine months after an explosion of a tank battery in Southwest Louisiana that claimed the life of a fourteen-year-old girl, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources announced a new rule is now in effect that could prevent another tragedy.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2021 at 10:00 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Cody Lillich
As lawmakers vow to push changes following the evacuation of more than 850 nursing home residents to a warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida, one former lawmaker cautions that change is not easy in the industry.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2021 at 10:00 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Cody Lillich
Eight months after an explosion of an oil tank in Southwest Louisiana killed a teenage girl, a state agency hopes to have a new rule in place soon that could prevent another child from being injured or killed.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2021 at 4:31 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Cody Lillich
Bob Dean, the owner of seven nursing homes that evacuated more than 800 residents to a warehouse ahead of Hurricane Ida, plans to appeal the state’s decision to revoke the licenses for the facilities, his attorney said Friday.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 10:25 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Cody Lillich
Evacuation plans from the seven nursing homes that had licenses revoked showed they claimed to be prepared for a large evacuation with plans for supplies and food, but the Louisiana Department of Health and families of those evacuated ahead of Hurricane Ida disagree.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 3:34 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Cody Lillich
Officials have revoked the licenses of seven nursing homes involved in an evacuation that crammed elderly and vulnerable residents into a warehouse.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2021 at 10:00 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Cody Lillich
Nursing home residents who were crammed inside of a warehouse shelter in Tangipahoa Parish where seven people died describe conditions inside as a ‘nightmare.’ The residents were among hundreds evacuated from seven nursing home facilities on the Southshore to the warehouse facility in Independence, La. ahead of Hurricane Ida.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2021 at 10:00 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Cody Lillich
Thousands of so-called ‘Shut-In Future Utility’ wells litter the Louisiana landscape with little enforcement to permanently plug them. One of those wells claimed the life of a Louisiana teenager, whose family says there was no warning of the site being dangerous.
Updated: May. 25, 2021 at 10:00 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Cody Lillich
A major oil company’s offer to plug so-called orphaned wells, left for dead in Terrebonne Parish was passed up by the state Department of Natural Resources and now the state could end up paying millions to do the work themselves.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 3:25 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik, Jamie Grey, Cody Lillich, Jill Riepenhoff and Megan Luther
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