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Remains Ryan Eugene Guitron found

April 20, 2010 By Alice

Ryan Eugene Guitron

The skeletal remains of Ryan Eugene Guitron from Fort Collins, missing for six years, have been found in rural Kimball County, Neb., and a multi-jurisdictional investigation is under way since last Monday. According to investigators, the remains of 30-year-old Ryan Eugene Guitron were found in a woodpile on an abandoned farmstead. A former roommate of […]

Filed Under: Missing Persons Tagged With: Autopsy, Ballistics, Colorado, FBI, Forensics, Missing Person, Ryan Eugene Guitron

Update Hank Skinner Case

April 20, 2010 By Alice

The United States Supreme Court Justices put off a decision in the Hank Skinner case. It is from Texas, a state that executes more prisoners per year than any other state. Hank Skinner made an actual innocence claim, demanding DNA testing on other evidence gathered at the crime scene. The justices had issued a stay just before […]

Filed Under: Forensics, Miscarriages of Justice Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Capital Punishment, DNA, Forensics, Henry Skinner, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Texas

Update 1984 Cold Case of Elizabeth Heath

April 18, 2010 By Alice

NaMus poster of Elizabeth Heath missing since 1984

Elizabeth Heath, the 30-year-old mother whose skeletal remains were found last Wednesday in a chamber beneath the sub-flooring in a barn, was the victim of a homicide, the state medical examiner announced on Friday. The medical examiner’s office did not release the cause of Heath’s death at the request of prosecutors, who did not want […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News, Forensics, Unsolved Tagged With: Autopsy, Connecticut, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Elizabeth Heath, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Missing Person, Police, Victim

Missing Woman’s Remains Found 26 Years

April 16, 2010 By Alice

NaMus poster of Elizabeth Heath missing since 1984

The discovery of a femur bone during renovation at a Newtown property led police to a full human skeleton that was positively identified as missing woman Elizabeth Heath on Thursday evening. Dental records on file since Elizabeth Heath went missing in 1984 while she was divorcing her husband John, matched teeth found in a skull […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News, Forensics, Missing Persons Tagged With: Autopsy, Connecticut, Dental Records, Elizabeth Heath, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Missing Person

Zeigler, Part VII: The Thompson Report

April 16, 2010 By Alice

William Th. Zeigler with his wife Eunice Edwards-Zeigler

Vicki Harley Holland has a website about Tommy Zeigler. It is called “Prayers for Tommy.” She commented on my previous posting “This post will be written by you.” In it, she refers to “Fatal Flaw” by Phillip Finch, the book I also recommend. In the middle of her website, near the top, you see “Letters […]

Filed Under: Zeigler Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Capital Punishment, DNA, Faulty Evidence, Florida, Forensics, Gun Fire, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Unsolved Homicide, William Thomas Zeigler, Wrongful Convictions

Missing: Alex Spence

April 15, 2010 By Alice

alex spence

Alex Spence is missing since Saturday April 10, 2010 at 10.30pm when he left Princes Avenue, Hull (UK) to walk home on Beverley Road, Hull (UK). His family is desperate to know whether he is okay. Alexander Spence, 30, had been drinking with his sister’s husband Alan Bentley and friend Giles Shaw in Princes Avenue. The three men visited the Linnet and Lark, […]

Filed Under: Missing Persons Tagged With: Alex Spence, Missing Person, Police, UK

Gummy Fingers, on sale now!

April 12, 2010 By Alice

Gummy Fingers

LAHORE, PAKISTAN: Fingerprint identification, which was supposed to be the last barrier to stop forgery in NADRA (National Database & Registration Authority) and the Passport Department, is now being rendered useless by the use of ‘gummy fingers’ (artificial fingerprints) with the cooperation of officials. People claim that by paying Rs 300,000 to Rs 500,000, anyone could get […]

Filed Under: Forensics Tagged With: Evidence, Faulty Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Pakistan, Police

Adam

April 10, 2010 By Alice

Torso "Adam" BBC

In 2002, a woman of West African origin was arrested in Glasgow in connection with the murder of a young boy whose torso was found in the Thames in London. The child’s torso, clad only in a pair of orange shorts, was spotted floating in the Thames near Tower Bridge on 21 September, 2001. It had […]

Filed Under: Forensics, Unidentified Tagged With: Adam, Autopsy, Crime Labs, Cruelty, Evidence, Forensics, London, Ritual Killings, UK, Unidentified

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William Thomas Zeigler

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On March 31, 2016, an evidentiary hearing was held to request touch DNA testing. On July 18, 2016, Judge Whitehead denied that request.

On November 23, 2016, an appeal was filed with the Florida Supreme Court. On April 21, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court denied the request for touch DNA analysis.

On May 8, 2017 a motion for a rehearing with the US Supreme Court was filed. It was denied November 13, 2017.

In the summer of 2019, the appeal for DNA testing to the Florida Conviction Integrity Unit was denied.

Richard Lapointe

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In March 2015, the Connecticut State Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Richard lapointe. On Oct 2, 2015, International Wrongful Conviction Day, Richard was set free. The judge ruled that he cannot be retried for the 1987 rape-murder of Mrs. Bernice Martin. Richard Lapointe died on Aug 4, 2020 of Covid19 complications.

In 1987, someone killed Bernice Martin. I hope that she will not become a forgotten file.
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