From the moment I held the book ‘Four Shots in Oskie’ by Justin Wingerter in my hands, the word unassuming started to flutter around in my brain. Like the sound of rustling leaves on a windy fall day, the sound popped up in various degrees of loudness, often just a whisper, to never really leave. […]
Zeigler, at long last: DNA testing
A motion was filed today by the William Thomas Zeigler defense team with the approval of the Orange County State Attorney’s office for DNA testing. It still needs a judge’s approval however, these joint motions are seldom denied. But, as we have been asking for DNA testing since 1994, I will not be able to […]
Sophie Sergie: cyber attacks
The pretrial evidence hearings in the 1993 murder of Sophie Sergie are delayed till further notice. Why? The Alaska court system’s cybersecurity has been breached. Nobody is safe from cyber attacks. About two weeks ago, the Alaska court system was forced offline. Without internet connection, no Zoom. Steven H. Downs, charged with Sophie Sergie’s murder, […]
Feedburner
If you get an alert about my latest posts by email, then you may be using Feedburner from Google. In April of this year, Google announced a new infrastructure for Feedburner. As a consequence, they are dropping the email subscriptions after July 2021. Currently, there are several hundreds of email addresses subscribed. So, I checked […]
Wrongful Convictions
In January 2021 the ABA Journal published an article called ‘Reckoning with Wrongful Convictions: Lessons Learned from an Examination of 25 Wrongful Convictions in Brooklyn, New York‘ written by Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. In the above-mentioned article, DA Gonzalez summarizes the report “426 Years: An Examination of 25 Wrongful Convictions in Brooklyn, New York.” That […]
Update Thomas Chan
The Case of the Month that closed the year 2016, was dedicated to Thomas Chan. I wrote I wished that I could post a headshot from Thomas, instead of one of my generic grieving angels. Now I can, thanks to Molly Ann. She was Tommy’s fiancé. Molly Ann generously shared case information, personal details, and […]
Missing: Joanna Lopez
I keep saying it, my readers are the best. In my inbox this morning, was a puzzle that has occupied me for the better part of the day. A reader told me that after watching old television send-offs, they saw two clips from WMAQ in Chicago, Illinois. Clip 1 is from 1989 and on YouTube […]
Petronella M. Runkaitis Petreikis
On Nov 8, 1952 around 150pm, Petronella M. Runkaitis Petreikis (1882 – 1952) finished working in the corn fields, in the Peotone Township of Will County, Illinois. She was sixty-six years old. She needed to get back to her bed-ridden (diabetic) husband Kazimir Petreikis, and only had to cross US Highway 54 (now 45) to […]
Sophie Sergie: Hearing Day 8
On Tuesday, April 13, the pre-trial hearings continued in the 1993 rape-murder of Sophie Sergie. Both the Sun Journal and the Union Leader reported about a crucial piece of information: the bullet that caused her death. Again, the hearing was by video conference. Sophie Sergie was killed with a single bullet to the back of […]
Sophie Sergie: Hearing Day 7
On Monday, April 12, the hearings in the 1993 murder of Sophie Sergie continued by video conference. This time, the possibilities of alternative suspects were discussed, that is, suspects other than Steven H. Downs. I hinted in other posts that I wondered about phenotyping in this case, if it was done, and if Downs resembles […]