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Archives for April 2014

Turning comments off

April 30, 2014 By Alice

red button "blog"

Turning comments off  means change and it is coming to Defrosting Cold Cases. As you can see on my blog, I have disabled comments. All comments that were made before today are not deleted. They are just not visible anymore but would pop back up if I enabled commenting again. There are many reasons for […]

Filed Under: Unsolved

Powers Not Delegated by Rodney Page

April 24, 2014 By Alice

book cover "powers not delegated"

Powers Not Delegated by Rodney Page is a book that will leave you with a headache of the good kind. This book describes every feeling of helplessness a citizen gets when big government tries to take over. It voices the frustration of Governors whose hands are more tied than ever. It shows you what happens when […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Book Reviews, Rodney Page

Book Alert: the Skeleton Crew

April 22, 2014 By Alice

book cover the skeleton crew by Deborah Halber

Book Alert: the Skeleton Crew by author Deborah Halber will be released in June 2014 and it is a must read if you love solving crimes and mysteries. The book tells the stories of ordinary citizens who take on the grim task largely abandoned by law enforcement: helping identify the estimated 40,000 unidentified human remains languishing […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: book alert, Deborah Halber

Help the Cedar Rapids Police

April 10, 2014 By Alice

Michelle Martinko

Help the Cedar Rapids Police to get in touch with an anonymous person who contacted the Linn County Crime Stoppers about Michelle Martinko‘s cold case. The Public Safety Communications Coordinator Greg M. Buelow contacted me with the following message: “The Cedar Rapids Police Department is requesting additional assistance from a Linn County Crime Stoppers tipster who provided investigators […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Case of the Month, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Michelle Martinko

Jacobs not guilty of Blakelock murder

April 9, 2014 By Alice

Keith Blakelock grid AdS

Nicholas Jacobs was found not guilty of the Blakelock murder during the 1985 Broadwater Farm Riots. From the Huffington Post: “Nicky Jacobs, who was 16 at the time, went on trial at the Old Bailey accused of being one of the rioters who together stabbed the officer more than 40 times and tried to decapitate him. There […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News Tagged With: Autopsy, Broadwater Farm Riots, Forensics, Knife Attack, machette, Nicholas Jacobs, Pc Keith Blakelock, UK, Unsolved Homicide

Petition for Cert filed for Zeigler

April 4, 2014 By Alice

US Supreme Court

Petition for Cert filed for Zeigler with the United States Supreme Court by the New York defense team! The State of Florida has to respond this month. Dennis H. Tracey, III and John Houston Pope have filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the United States Supreme Court. In plain English: the New York defense team […]

Filed Under: Miscarriages of Justice, Zeigler Tagged With: Brady v. Maryland, death penalty, Florida, Giglio v. United States, Kyles v. Whiley, William Thomas Zeigler, Wrongful Convictions

Murder in Suburbia

April 3, 2014 By Alice

Cover: Murder in Suburbia

Murder in Suburbia by Emily Webb is as the subtitle suggests really disturbing. We all feel safe in our neck of the woods. Webb shows us some cases from Australia’s dark heart. Be prepared to see your burb differently after you are done reading. Webb discusses 28 chilling cases. Two highlights here below: If only […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Australia, Book Reviews, Emily Webb, Nanette Ellis, Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia-Shu

The Grahlman murders

April 1, 2014 By Alice

Grave Jay & Jaymie Grahlman

The Case of the Month for April 2014: the Grahlman murders from April 5, 2003. I read about the Grahlman arson/double homicide case on Jody Ewing’s Iowa Cold Cases. Please read the circumstances of the crime there. No need to repeat Jody here. After I read the overview, many questions popped up in my mind and […]

Filed Under: Case of the Month Tagged With: Arson Detection, Autopsy, Case of the Month, Cedar Rapids, Cruelty, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Iowa, Jay and Jaymie Grahlman

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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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