Nearly three weeks since Elizabeth Heath‘s remains were found, the medical examiner still has not identified the cause of death, police said. “They’re still doing forensic testing,” Police Chief Michael Kehoe said of staff at the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Kehoe said the medical examiner’s office has more work to do before […]
Archives for May 2010
Riley Fox case solved
An imprisoned sex offender will be charged with the 2004 murder of 3-year-old Riley Fox, a crime that Riley’s father originally confessed to committing. It’s been a terrible ordeal for the family because even with DNA clearing Kevin in 2005, many people persisted in the belief that he was guilty,” Kathleen Zellner, the Fox family’s […]
Update Quang Lu
Police believed millionaire loan shark Quang Lu was murdered shortly after he disappeared in October 2007. The discovery of a body in a barrel last week on Sunday proved the prediction by police specializing in Asian organized crime was correct. Homicide detectives said Tuesday the well-preserved body of Quang Lu known on the streets as […]
Update Toronto’s Quang Lu
Police have identified the body found encrusted in cement, inside a barrel that was pulled from Lake Ontario, as that of Quang Lu. The 47-year-old man went missing from Markham in October 2007 after returning from a trip to China. Police told 680News Lu was known to them and had ties to Asian organized crime. The barrel […]
Michael Leo Resk
On December 9, 1955, around 2am in the morning, police received a call from a taxi driver. He had seen a delivery van parked on Acadia Street, at the corner with Roome, in an unusual way. Police found the body of Michael Leo Resk inside the Chevrolet delivery truck. This is the oldest case on HRP’s Unsolved Major Crimes […]
Halifax Unsolved Crimes
The Halifax Regional Police has a website with links dedicated to their unsolved crimes and they are asking for your help. You see the names of the victims involved, incident date, and file number (or incident number). Click on any of the names and a small file pops up with dates, facts and pictures. Please […]
Update Toronto’s grisly discoveries
Human remains found in two separate locations in cottage country almost a two-hour drive apart – belong to the same man, the OPP said Monday. Post-mortem conducted on the remains found north of Barrie and near Huntsville Saturday revealed they belonged to the same person, a still unknown male victim, police said. “We have confirmed, […]
Murdered: Moira “Holly” Branagan
Moira “Holly” Branagan (Dec 8, 1962 – March 28, 1979) was a senior at Freedom High School. She had a part-time job at a local deli. Her father worked as a sales executive for Lone Star. He was away on a business trip the night she died. Her mother, who’d suffered from leukemia, had passed […]
Cert Granted in the Skinner Case
The USSC granted the writ of Certiorari in the case of Hank Skinner. Today’s order list included the decision Skinner has been waiting for. Now what does this mean? Read here what the Skeptical Juror writes: “First and foremost, Texas will not be able to execute Hank Skinner until the Supremes have ruled on his petition. That […]
Toronto’s grisly discoveries
Ontario Provincial Police are investigating grisly finds of human remains in three locations this weekend: near Barrie, Huntsville and in Toronto harbour. In the first case, human remains were found by a resident on a street that is under development in Oro-Medonte Township, northeast of Barrie. “This area where the body was located is in a subdivision […]
Robert Henderson Case: arrest
A Honolulu grand jury last Thursday indicted Jason Lee McCormick, 36, on charges he murdered a visiting linguistics professor in 1996. Robert Henderson, 51, was found dead in his Waikiki hotel room in July 1996, with a handwritten note on his body accusing him of molesting young boys. Robert Henderson was a respected Professor at […]
Can a judge speak his mind?
Can a judge speak his mind? Do magistrates have the right to express themselves freely, must they be politically correct at all times, or is a more plain worded description allowed from time to time? My good friend on Twitter, @dcd_barrister, alerted me to this article. Magistrate Austin Malloy is in trouble for speaking his […]
Update Hank Skinner
From the Sceptical Juror comes an update about the Skinner case: “The Supreme Court has handed down its rulings for May 17, 2010. There is no mention of Hank’s petition for a writ of certiorari. The next time the court will announce its rulings is next Monday, 24 May.” Mr. Skinner has asked for DNA testing of seven items: […]
Zeigler, Part IX
Zeigler, Part IX: Let’s talk blood. Pictured here on the website you see the t-shirt Tommy wore underneath a red dress shirt, the night he was shot and, was supposed to die. On the front of the t-shirt you see a big blood stain underneath the left armpit, right? And on the back of the […]
A Chinese Wrongful Conviction
Reuters reports about a Chinese case where a man who was supposedly hacked to death in a fight has reappeared in his hometown after 10 years, raising questions about police torture to extract a confession from the alleged killer. Zhao Zuohai, the supposed killer, was acquitted of the crime and released by a Henan court May 8, […]
Alaska Enacts DNA Access Law
Alaska is the 48th U.S. state to enact a law granting post-conviction DNA access to prisoners seeking to overturn wrongful convictions. After passing the state’s House and Senate with unanimous support, the measure was signed into law by Gov. Sean Parnell on May 14, 2010. Only Massachusetts and Oklahoma now lack DNA access laws in […]
Killed in the line of duty
President Barack Obama paid tribute Saturday for a grateful nation to law enforcement officers who made the ultimate sacrifice while safeguarding their communities. Americans “rely on a certain order in our lives, a certain sense of security that lets us sleep safely in our beds and walk around our neighborhoods free from fear and go […]
Bernard Jackson in court (Waldo case)
KANSAS CITY, MO. – Bernard Jackson, the man who is considered a person of interest in the Waldo rape cases appeared in court on other rape charges yesterday. Bernard Jackson now faces 15 counts of robbery, rape and sodomy. There was a very strong police presence on Monday when Jackson went before a Jackson County […]
Zeigler, Part VIII
To completely understand the dynamics in the Zeigler case, I think we should make it more visual, to clarify what we are talking about. If you look into the right margin you will see that under “Last Modified Post” some of the older Zeigler posts show up again. I have added photographs for clarity. These […]
Lapointe hearing May 7, 2010
The defense lawyers trying to clear Richard Lapointe of the horrendous 1987 murder of Mrs. Bernice Martin began an attack in court last Friday on a detective who they said secured the mentally disabled man’s questionable confession after a series of suggestive and, at times, threatening interrogations. Much of the testimony Friday focused on a […]