“I used pseudonyms in the book in order to protect my family. He was never charged despite the police knowing about his activity. The police investigations were case files and are not available to the public. People outside Australia would not be aware that many of the missing person files in NSW in the 1960s […]
Archives for 2016
Adam Gray denied new trial
From the Chicago Tribune: “Judge Angela Petrone remained unconvinced that lawyers for Adam Gray had produced enough evidence for a jury to acquit him at a new trial.” Adam Gray’s file was examined by arson experts John Lentini and Gerald Hurst. “At trial, prosecutors focused on two elements — the evidence that the fire had […]
Remembering Larry Anstett
Imagine it is 1974. A young Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper delivery boy is on his rounds through the neighborhoods of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His name is Larry Anstett and he is in grade nine at Wilbur Wright Junior High School. He is 15 years old, and far too young to die. But he did on November 5th. […]
What happened to Amos Mortier?
“How thoroughly did Fitchburg police investigate an allegation that a Madison man confessed to stabbing Amos Mortier and feeding his body to pigs?” That’s quite an opening for a newspaper article. Your thoughts immediately bring up images of a conspiracy, people disappearing, smaller fish taking the heat for the impossible to catch bigger fish, possible […]
Brittney Nicole Wood
If you only Google the name “Brittney Nicole Wood” you will find a story that is too hard to believe. It involves multiple family members, some mature adults and some juveniles, engaged in consensual and non-consensual group sex with or without drugs involved. It involves rape, sodomy, and other forms of sexually deprived behaviour that […]
A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
“A Field of Darkness” by Cornelia Read is a book review by guest blogger Christa Miller. ** It is 2006: the year of the Turin Winter Olympics, creation of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) in Great Britain, beginning of the construction of the Freedom Tower in New York City, and a devastating terrorist attack in […]
Remembering Timmy Wiltsey
Remembering Timothy “Timmy” William Wiltsey (August 6, 1985 – May 25, 1991) “While the credibility and the weight of the evidence will ultimately be up to the jury, a case under circumstantial evidence has been established, and the defense has not met its burden to dismiss the indictment.” ** One of my readers alerted me […]
Remembering Marion Miley (1914 – 1941)
Golf champion Marion Miley (27) and her mother Elsie Miley were killed during a robbery at the Lexington Country Club (Kentucky) on Sunday, September 28, 1941. Marion had helped set up a club dance. Around 2am, she heard her mother Elsie scream. Running down the stairs armed with a golf club, she faced three masked […]