More details are now available in the missing person case of Amber Rose Nicklas, the little girl who was abducted from California when she was just one year old and who resurfaced in Phoenix, AZ. The family who raised her as their own are now fighting for legal custody. They claim that they had no idea that the baby […]
Archives for 2010
Medici Cold Case Solved
Scientists who exhumed the remains of several members of the Medici Family who dominated the Florentine Renaissance, have conclusively dismissed the theory of family murders, solving a more than 400-year-old cold case. Malaria, not poison as long rumored, killed Francesco I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his second wife, Bianca Cappello, according to research […]
Update Amber Nicklas Case
Amber Nicklas remains in protective custody in Los Angeles and it was not clear if she will be reunited with her foster parents. Authorities have not released any names or filed any charges but continue to investigate. “This girl was taken away from the only parents and family that she knows yesterday,” said Phoenix police […]
Michael VonAllmen: Cleared after 30 years
Cleared after 30 years in Louisville, KY: After 11 years in prison before being paroled in 1994 for being convicted of rape and other charges in 1982, Michael VonAllmen’s record is now clear. On July 15, 2010, a judge finally ruled to dismiss all charges with prejudice, which means the charges can never be brought back. […]
Five men now charged in connection with Mike Silcock’s death
Updates in the case of Mike Silcock: Thomas Joyce and Darren Hamilton have both been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. They are due before the Stockport Magistrates Court on Friday, July 23, 2010, along with Jake Hayes and Nathan Benson who were earlier charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. Stephen Benson of no fixed abode was earlier charged with causing […]
Update Kimberly Dunkin
Update in the Kimberly Dunkin murder: Brad Ballantyne, accused of killing Kim on New Year’s Day in 1993, will face a judge for the first time. Ballantyne was arrested in Vancouver, Wash. in mid-June. Dunkin was found shot to death in her car in the 4900 block NE Skidmore St. in Portland on Jan. 1, 1993. Ballantyne was arrested by […]
Amber Nicklas found after seven years
Amber Nicklas, a California girl missing for almost seven years was found last Wednesday by police in Phoenix, Arizona, authorities said. The girl had just turned a year old when she was abducted in September 2003. She had been in the care of foster parents in Norwalk, California, when she was snatched by three of […]
More information on Trey Noah
One suspect arrested this month in the slaying of Kendalia resident Trey Noah claimed his co-defendant shot Noah in the back on Nov. 30, 2009 following an argument, records released last Monday show. The body of Noah, 20, was found in April off Doebbler Road in eastern Gillespie County, Texas. An affidavit by Gillespie County Sheriff’s […]
False Confessions
Lisa Black and Steve Mills of the Chicago Tribune have written an excellent piece about false confessions. False confessions are not so uncommon as you would think. Why would a parent confess to raping their own three-year old or murdering their own grandmother? If you really are not guilty, nothing in the world could make you […]
Arrest for Keith Combs and Eugene Ellis
Finally justice for Keith Combs and Eugene Ellis: Authorities say DNA evidence led to an arrest in the 1993 killings of two enlisted sailors whose bodies were found in a field in San Diego County. Leopoldo Castro Chavez II was arrested last Wednesday on suspicion of gunning down the two men in an Otay Mesa […]