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 […]
Archives for 2010
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, […]