Thanks to DNA we now have an arrest in the 1984 murders of Buckels and McMahan. Seldon Wayne Colvin (58) was arrested for the murders of John Robert Buckels (38)and Janis Petkas McMahan (37). On Sept 28, 1984, the badly decomposed bodies of Buckels and McMahan, both of Houston (Texas), were found along Old Highway […]
Archives for 2010
Update Waldo Rapist/Bernard Jackson
Bernard Jackson was arraigned Wednesday June 2, 2010, on 18 felonies stemming from four Waldo-area sexual assaults in the 1980s. Assistant Public Defender Carie Allen entered not-guilty pleas on Jackson’s behalf during the brief appearance before Judge Brent Powell. His next court appearance was scheduled for June 22, 2010. Police are continuing to investigate the […]
Zeigler, Part X
By request, the DNA report that exonerates Zeigler. In Dec 1975, a quadruple murder took place in the Zeigler Furniture Store (Winter Garden, Florida). The victims were Charles Mays, Virginia and Perry Edwards, and their daughter Eunice Edwards-Zeigler. The fifth victim, William Thomas Zeigler, became the sole suspect because he survived. The case is riddled […]
Update Tamara Greene
Attorney Norman Yatooma is dropping most of the defendants in the Tamara Greene lawsuit. Yatooma is dropping Christine Beatty, Ella Bully-Cummings, Cara Best, Harold Cureton and Craig Schwartz from the suit. He says the lawsuit now only includes former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and the City of Detroit. According to Yatooma, he dropped the defendants to get […]
DNA upon conviction
New York Governor David Paterson announced that he is submitting DNA legislation that will require everyone convicted of a penal law crime to provide a sample. Currently, New York state only requires DNA collection after a judge convicts a suspect of any felony crime or 18 specified misdemeanors. Once the sample is collected, the information […]
Update Elizabeth Heath
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 […]
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 […]