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Defrosting Cold Cases

Est. 2009

  • Cold Case Database: Index and Summaries
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      • Case Summaries A-G
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      • Case Summaries O-Z
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  • Case of the Month (2014 – 2024)
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New excavation: the Beaumont Children

January 22, 2018 By Alice

Gone for 50 years: The Beaumont Children

Update: authorities only found animal bones, no signs of human remains. The Australian papers just printed exciting news in the case of the three missing Beaumont Children. “Police have confirmed a new dig site in the search for the bodies of the missing Beaumont children.” Jane Nartare (9), Arnna Kathleen (7), and Grant Ellis (4), known […]

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Filed Under: Cold Case News, Missing Persons Tagged With: Australia, Beaumont Children, missing children

Who stole April Nicole Williams?

January 13, 2018 By Alice

April Nicole Williams/collage AdS

Last night, my friend JL alerted me to a post about April Nicole Williams who went missing in 1983. Of course, I shared the story. So far April has not been found. We have a baby picture and an age-progressed image of what she might look like now as an adult. The better guess for […]

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Filed Under: Missing Persons, Unsolved Tagged With: April Nicole Williams, DNA, Kidnapping, Missing Person, Washington DC

The 1976 cold case of Eunice Shrivers Lowe

January 1, 2018 By Alice

Eunice Shrivers Lowe/Find-a-Grave Prissy53

On Sept. 17, 1976, bus ticket clerk Eunice Shrivers Lowe (Nov 11, 1920 – Sep 17, 1976) was killed while at the work at the Continental Railways Station in Bay City, in the southwest part of Houston, Texas. Eunice, a white woman of 55, was beaten with a pickax, stabbed with a broken glass bottle, […]

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Filed Under: Case of the Month Tagged With: Case of the Month, DNA, Eunice Shrivers Lowe, Houston, Texas

Holiday Tragedies

December 22, 2017 By Alice

Holiday Tragedies AdS 2017

The last days of December are filled with joy and cheer for most of us but for some, they are the Holiday Tragedies. Celebrating several days together with loved ones isn’t an option for everyone. Some of us are alone and not always by choice. Some of us were robbed of loved ones. It stings […]

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Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Barbara Ann Blatnik, Betty Gene Hull, Brenda Lee Harvey Martinez, Charles Clark, Michelle Marie Martinko, Rhonda Annette Hinson, Sodder Children, Zeiger Family

Suzanne Bombardier: Bacom faces judge

December 16, 2017 By Alice

Suzanne Bombardier

Update in the Suzanne Bombardier case: Mitchell Lynn Bacom did not enter a plea and waived his right to a speedy trial. Public Defender Brooks Osborne argued his office needs more time to get attorneys assigned to the case and for them to review the evidence against Bacom. This will all take time. The East […]

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Filed Under: Case of the Month, Unsolved Tagged With: Antioch, California, DNA, Knife Attack, Suzanne Bombardier

Sum it Up! #55

December 15, 2017 By Alice

sum it up #cclivechat

Sum it Up! #55 covers a lot of ground. Here we go: Wrongful Convictions 1: Lamonte McIntyre After being wrongly imprisoned for a double-murder for the past 23 years, Lamonte McIntyre walked out of Wyandotte County Courthouse a free man! Lamonte McIntyre was wrongly convicted in 1994 of a double murder he never committed. His conviction […]

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Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Forensics, Police Misconduct, Sum it Up!, Wrongful Convictions

OPP still needs help in Karen Caughlin case

December 14, 2017 By Alice

Karen Caughlin

In the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) latest press conference they told the public that Karen Caughlin was most likely unintentionally killed by a motorist in 1974. The papers called it “shedding a new light on the case” but I disagree. We already knew she was struck by a car. The question is was it unintentional or not. […]

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Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Canada, hit-and-run, Karen Caughlin, M-Vac Systems, OPP, Sarnia

Charges in Suzanne Bombardier murder

December 12, 2017 By Alice

Suzanne Bombardier

Mitchell Lynn Bacom (63) will be charged with murdering Suzanne Bombardier, according to county prosecutors. He was arrested Friday at his Antioch home without incident, police said. Bacom, a longtime suspect in this case, is held on charges of murder, kidnapping, rape and oral copulation. Suzanne’s slaying was the oldest open homicide cold case on […]

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Filed Under: Case of the Month Tagged With: Antioch, California, DNA, Knife Attack, Suzanne Bombardier

New search options from NCMEC

December 8, 2017 By Alice

Pulaski Co Mo jane doe/NCMEC

The NCMEC (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) has a new search tool. They have launched an interactive map of unidentified human remains cases combined with a database. The interface has the map and the data on one screen making is super easy and eye-friendly. On the map (click here) you can search the […]

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Filed Under: Unidentified Tagged With: NCMEC, Unidentified

Theresa Corley: DNA found

December 3, 2017 By Alice

The cold case of Theresa M. Corley/Massachusetts Gov.

In April 2016, I wrote that Theresa M. Corley‘s case needed a review with modern technology. It has been done. In May 2017, the authorities exhumed Theresa’s body. They collected nine and a half fingernails. The goal of course, looking for DNA. Theresa was only 19 years old on Dec. 6, 1978 when she was […]

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Filed Under: Cold Case News, Unsolved Tagged With: DNA, Massachusetts, Theresa M. Corley

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Since 2009, I write about unsolved cases that need renewed media attention. I only do research and leave active investigations to the authorities.

My posts cover homicides, missing and unidentified people, wrongful convictions, and forensics as related to unsolved cases.

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