William Ray Hagy Jr. on Tuesday denied killing a Roanoke woman in 1984, speaking not from the witness stand in his murder trial but in a 2-year-old recorded interview played by prosecutors. “I have a feeling you’re going to charge me with this,” Hagy said in the conversation with the Roanoke police detective who reopened […]
Uncovering The Mystery Of The ‘Clinton Avenue Five’
Uncovering The Mystery Of The ‘Clinton Avenue Five’ is not an easy task. Police have cracked a major cold case that’s gone unsolved for more than 30 years. Five teenagers vanished on a summer day in 1978. But now, the family members of those missing have new reason for hope. For justice, because the boys are […]
Update Cynthia Denise McCray
Willam Hagy Jr. just pleaded not guilty in the cold case murder of Cynthia Denise McCray from 1984, see my post “Hagy goes on trial today in 1984 slaying.” Hagy’s defense attorney argued for and won a bench trial, meaning there will not be a jury to decide Hagy’s guilty or innocence. The judge delayed a […]
Hagy on trial today in 1984 slaying
Two Roanoke women killed less than six months apart. Their unclothed bodies left about a mile from each other. Both strangled during or after sex. For almost a quarter-century, any connection between the slayings of Cynthia Denise McCray, a 21-year-old black woman dumped under an Interstate 581 overpass, and Audrey Anne West, a 33-year-old white […]
Remains WWII bomber George Hadden found
It was summer 1943 and RAF volunteer George Hadden had set out on another dangerous bombing mission to Germany with his crew. The 20-year-old flight engineer, from Kings Heath, Birmingham, had signed up soon after the Second World War broke out. George had successfully completed other missions to the war-ravaged continent with his Stirling bomber […]
Tommy Zeigler, Part II
Tommy Zeigler is a quiet man, in control of his emotions, not wearing his heart on his sleeve and to most, he comes across as reserved. Very reserved. He used to be politically active behind the scenes in his hometown of Winter Garden, Florida. He had once led a successful drive to unseat a longtime […]
DNA lab offers help in Hank Skinner case
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals may be indifferent to the truth in the Hank Skinner case (focusing only on procedural questions), but Chromosomal Laboratories in Phoenix, Arizona, isn’t. In response to a plea by the Innocence Project, Chromosomal Laboratories in Phoenix, Arizona has offered its accredited DNA testing services to help pursue justice. The […]
Zeigler, Part I
Zeigler, Part I: there is a man on death row in the United States of America, in Florida to be precise. On July 24th, he will be celebrating his 65th birthday. It will be a sober one. Death row does not throw great parties. He knows. He has been there since 1976. His full name […]
William Thomas Zeigler
As mentioned before on DCC and on Twitter, I am currently taking another look into the case of Mr. William Thomas Zeigler, on death row in Florida, USA. His case has such a complexity that it is absolutely impossible to cover the entire case in one average-sized post. The other option is to write a […]
UK Detectives solved murder case using dog DNA
No murder weapons were ever found in the case of Oluwaseyi Ogunyemi. However, scientists used DNA profiling to prove that samples collected during the investigation were a billion times more likely to come from two specific dogs than any other animals. The results conclusively linked them to Oluwaseyi Ogunyemi’s death. The dogs used in the […]