Please welcome guest blogger Lisa Sedlak. She wrote this book review about ‘Bitter Blood‘ by Jerry Bledsoe. ** When I visit my sister, we always go to her favorite used bookstore. The last time I visited, I went straight to the true crime section – as always. Among the Ann Rule books and books on […]
Guest Bloggers
William Peter Cook: A Forensic Science Follow Up by Sue Carney
William Peter Cook (Dec 17, 1924 – Oct 20, 1950): A Forensic Science Follow Up by Sue Carney December 06, 2021 I love a forensic science chat on Twitter, and it’s been a while since I’ve had one, so when Alice wanted to chat last weekend about an upcoming post on DCC, I was totally up […]
Boy in the Box by Silvia Pettem
If ever there was a child crying out to be identified, the “Boy in the Box” is the one. Also called “America’s Unknown Child,” the little boy was found deceased in a cardboard box in a debris-filled empty lot in northeast Philadelphia on February 25, 1957. Ever since, police and others periodically have assembled at […]
Veronica, Cynthia, Linda, and Bobbie
Please welcome guest blogger Barney Doyle. He worked as a newspaper reporter before turning to law enforcement. Doyle blogged for PoliceOne and the now defunct blog Working Police before turning his attention to writing books. ‘Reckless Speculation About Murder’ is coming out in May 2020. It will be released by Genius Book Publishing. Before this book […]
M-Vac, a cold case murder, and a true crime show
Please welcome back to DCC, guest blogger Jared Bradley. As you know, Jared is the President and CEO of M-Vac Systems, Inc. What you may not know is that he served 14 years with the US Army and Army Reserves, achieving the rank of Captain. Since leading M-Vac Systems into the forensic market, Jared had […]
Melissa Millan (Oct 13, 1960 – Nov 20, 2014)
Melissa Millan by Elizabeth Bramon An arrest was finally made in the 2014 murder of Melissa Millan of Simsbury, CT. William Winters Leverett 27, of Windsor Locks, CT was arraigned in Enfield Superior Court on Monday, September 24, 2018 on the charges of murder in the first degree for the November 20, 2014 stabbing death […]