Police in Adelaide, South Australia, have announced that the 1983 case of Louise Bell has been re-opened. “The unthinkable had happened — a little girl was abducted from her bedroom in a quiet, friendly neighbourhood, never to be seen again.” Police have re-submitted evidence for DNA testing to see whether it can be linked to a […]
Archives for 2011
Recap #CCLiveChat October 7, 2011
A dazzling CCLiveChat in rapid pace but not without some tech glitches here and there. Our Evie feel off the charts no matter how hard Sue tried to prevent that. Joe opened the chat by pointing to the need for crime scene management in the Knox case for evidence collection and preservation and in the […]
Sum it Up #35
In this Sum it Up: in the past two weeks, I read a lot of news articles, book reviews, and watched via live feeds the trials of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in Perugia, Italy, and of course, the Dr. C. Murray trial in the death of Michael Jackson. If it hadn’t been for the […]
Do you recognize this unidentified child?
On Oct. 2, 1979 the remains of an unidentified boy were found in a shallow grave on the side of Glendora Mountain Road. He was either white or Latino, with straight dark brown hair, between 3-8 years old, 3 feet 8 inches tall, and between 35-45 pounds. Detectives suspect foul play. Craig Harvey, a spokesperson […]
Bernard Jackson sentenced today
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 […]
Adam has been identified
“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 […]
Guest post on Corruption
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 […]
About the Troy Davis Execution
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 […]
No more Zeigler posts?
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 […]
Recap #CCLiveChat Sept 16, 2011
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, […]