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Bernard Jackson sentenced today

September 30, 2011 By Alice

Bernard Jackson

Bernard Jackson was sentenced today. He received 18 consecutive life sentences for rapes committed in the Waldo and Armour Hills neighborhoods almost 30 years ago. No trial date has yet been set for Jackson’s other unresolved criminal cases. Prosecutors accused him of two more recent sexual assaults in the Waldo area. The Case Jackson is […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News, Forensics Tagged With: Crime Labs, Crime Scene, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missouri, Police, Rape kits, Victim, Waldo Rapist

Adam has been identified

September 27, 2011 By Alice

Torso "Adam" BBC

“The five-year-old’s identity has remained a mystery after he was smuggled into Britain and murdered in a voodoo-style ritual killing. He was drugged with a ‘black-magic’ potion and sacrificed before being thrown into the Thames, where his torso washed up next to the Globe Theatre in September 2001.  Detailed analysis of a substance in the boy’s […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News, Forensics, Solved Tagged With: Adam, Autopsy, Child Abuse, Crime Scene, Cruelty, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, Victim

Guest post on Corruption

September 23, 2011 By Alice

Dina Fort/Cold Case Database

This guest post on Corruption is from David Russell. David is a corrections officer for a state correctional facility. He has worked for the state for many years. You can follow David on Twitter. ** “The purpose of this post is to give an idea of what prison life is like on a day-to-day basis. I intend […]

Filed Under: Guest Bloggers Tagged With: Prisons

About the Troy Davis Execution

September 22, 2011 By Alice

Lady Justice: Petition for a Writ of Certiorari denied for Zeigler on May 19, 2014.

Last night, I too was watching the news to see if Troy Davis would get executed or not. The case is discussed online on various places and blogs. So why this post? Because something irritated me. People forgot that we have a separation of powers. People asked some to do what they could not because they […]

Filed Under: Vidocq Unscripted Tagged With: Capital Punishment, Troy Davis

No more Zeigler posts?

September 20, 2011 By Alice

Eunice and Tommy Zeigler on their wedding day

Some of you have emailed me asking why I have stopped posting about the William Thomas Zeigler case. Am I now convinced that he is guilty? Am I bored with the case? Am I in a clinch with the defense team? No to all the above. I have tried to show why I believe that Zeigler never had […]

Filed Under: Zeigler Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Capital Punishment, Faulty Evidence, Prosecutorial Misconduct, William Thomas Zeigler, Wrongful Convictions

Recap #CCLiveChat Sept 16, 2011

September 16, 2011 By Alice

sum it up #cclivechat

A fascinating CCLiveChat with Detective Ken Lang. No matter what technical difficulty presented itself, the chatters have proven to be one heck of a team! We made sure all our tweets could be read on Twitter, TweetChat, TweetDeck and beyond even if those programs did not cooperate with us! So let me thank here: Miriam Said, […]

Filed Under: #CCLiveChat Tagged With: cclivechat, Ken Lang

Update Keith Combs & Eugene Ellis

September 16, 2011 By Alice

From the Patch in the case of Keith Combs & Eugene Ellis: “A preliminary hearing was held Wednesday for two men accused in the shooting deaths of two San Diego-based sailors in Otay Mesa 18 years ago.”  The hearing for Edward Jesus Elias and Leopoldo Castro Chavez II, both 35, was to have started Tuesday morning but was […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News, Forensics Tagged With: Autopsy, Ballistics, California, Crime Scene, DNA, Eugene Ellis, Forensics, Keith Combs, Keith Combs and Eugene Ellis, Unsolved Homicide

Prep for #CCLiveChat Sept 16, 2011

September 15, 2011 By Alice

sum it up #cclivechat

Our #CCLiveChat on September 16 will be a very special one since we will be joined by Detective Ken Lang. Ken will explain post-mortem drawings and 3D skull reconstructions to us. As preparation, watch the clip below. About Ken Lang: Ken is a 24-year Maryland law enforcement veteran and now an accomplished author. He served the last 15 years […]

Filed Under: #CCLiveChat, Forensics Tagged With: cclivechat

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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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