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Archives for January 2011

If I scream, will you help me?

January 17, 2011 By Alice

Statute of a grieving angel

I had every intention to blog today but after reading the papers, I couldn’t. I could not shake the image of the old lady out of my head. Scratching the car to try and pull herself up. She screamed, people heard but nobody bothered to go outside to check. Nobody even bothered to call 911 to let the cops […]

Filed Under: Vidocq Unscripted Tagged With: Canada, Toronto

Missing: Laura Henderson-Ibach

January 16, 2011 By Alice

leaning angel

Understanding the 1986 Laura Henderson-Ibach disappearance is not easy. This case is as mind-boggling as it gets. I call it a disappearance because Laura’s body has never been found. No forensic evidence points to a crime scene. Yet, two men are serving 99 years in prison. They have been convicted of kidnapping and first degree […]

Filed Under: Missing Persons, Unsolved Tagged With: Alaska, DNA, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Laura Henderson-Ibach, Miscarriage of Justice, Missing Person

Zeigler: The significance of the Jellison Tape

January 16, 2011 By Alice

William Thomas Zeigler/Grid AdS

Zeigler: The significance of the Jellison Tape (part XVIII) Is it evidence? Is it exonerating? Is it implicating? The tape’s conversation has been posted in full so I refer you to the previous post to read it. As you know, it was suppressed by the state for about twelve years. Why? Because of what Jon Jellison […]

Filed Under: Miscarriages of Justice, Zeigler Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Ballistics, Capital Punishment, Crime Scene, Death Row, DNA, Faulty Evidence, FBI, Finger Printing, Florida, Gun Fire, Jellison Tape, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, William Thomas Zeigler

Sum it up! #2

January 14, 2011 By Alice

sum it up #cclivechat

For this week’s Sum it Up:  several cold cases were in the news. Rockfort Police (IL) announced an arrest in the 1998 murder of Debbie Lynn Logsdon. “Richard L. Brown was served a warrant last Friday for first-degree murder. Deputy Police Chief Greg Lindmark would not say what new piece of evidence led police to Brown, but […]

Filed Under: Sum it up!, Zeigler Tagged With: Hawley Harvey Crippen, Joe Arridy, Lucely "Lily" Aramburi, Mental Retardation, Mitochondrial DNA, Sum it Up!, William Thomas Zeigler

Update Burchfield

January 12, 2011 By Alice

I received comments regarding the Burchfield case that I have not posted before but have decided to do so now with additional information I found: Q1: “In the picture, the officer wore his weapon at high-rise, cross-draw, on his left, making it available to either hand and away from his passengers. Do we know if […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Ballistics, Colorado, Finger Printing, Forensics, Gun Fire, Richard Burchfield, Unsolved Homicide

Arrest in 1981 murder of Joseph Azevedo

January 10, 2011 By Alice

Joseph Azevedo, courtesy LASD

Christopher David Winter was arrested for the 1981 murder of Joseph Azevedo (Nov 14, 1930 – May 2, 1981) from Lancaster, CA. Detectives believe that Winter was burglarizing Azevedo‘s mobile home and was startled by Joseph, an aircraft mechanic. Winter is described as a truck driver living in Indiana. Armando Azevedo was 17 when he and his […]

Filed Under: Forensics, Solved Tagged With: California, DNA, Finger Printing, Forensics, Gun Fire, Joseph Azevedo

Update: Keith Blakelock

January 8, 2011 By Alice

Keith Blakelock grid AdS

Fantastic news in the case of Keith Blakelock: “Police have launched a fresh investigation into the murder of a police constable who was killed in riots in north London more than 18 years ago, Scotland Yard said. Pc Keith Blakelock was hacked to death during the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham in October 1985. A fresh […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Autopsy, Broadwater Farm Riots, Cruelty, DNA, Forensics, Identification, Keith Blakelock, Pc Keith Blakelock, UK

Sum it up! #1

January 7, 2011 By Alice

sum it up #cclivechat

The biggest issue for me for this Sum it Up! are the Cameron Todd Willingham hearings. The 3rd Court of Appeals, an Austin based appellate court, ruled last Tuesday that state District Judge Charlie Baird abused his discretion in handling an inquiry into the case of Cameron Todd Willingham. The 3rd Court of Appeals found that […]

Filed Under: Sum it up! Tagged With: Cameron Todd Willingham, Crime, DNA, Sum it Up!

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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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