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Remembering Gwen Vivian Miller

June 18, 2019 By Alice

Gwen Vivian Miller/RCPD

Gwen Vivian Miller (Nov 4, 1907 – Feb 29, 1968) was murdered inside her home in Rapid City, South Dakota. She was 60 years old. She never married and had no children. Gwen worked as a hospital pharmacist at the Bennett-Clarkson Memorial Hospital (now Rapid City Regional) in Rapid City. Her colleagues went to her […]

Filed Under: Forensics, Solved Tagged With: DNA, Gwen Vivian Miller, Rapid City, South Dakota

Melissa Millan (Oct 13, 1960 – Nov 20, 2014)

October 8, 2018 By Alice

Melissa Millan

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 […]

Filed Under: Guest Bloggers, Solved Tagged With: Connecticut, Knife Attack, Melissa Millan, stabbing death

Keith Combs and Eugene Ellis

September 21, 2018 By Alice

Keith Combs and Eugene Ellis

WARNING: this post has crime scene and autopsy photography from both Keith Combs and Eugene Ellis. Introduction On the morning of Sept. 25, 1993, people riding off-the-road motorcycles found the bodies of Keith Edmond Combs (Aug 20, 1970 – Sept 25, 1993) and Eugene Clifford “Cliff” Ellis (June 21, 1973 – Sept 25, 1993). They […]

Filed Under: Forensics, Solved Tagged With: Autopsy, Ballistics, California, Crime Scene, DNA, Eugene Ellis, Forensics, Keith Combs, Keith Combs and Eugene Ellis, Unsolved Homicide

Arrested: Joseph James DeAngelo, Jr

April 26, 2018 By Alice

Joseph James DeAngelo, Jr was arrested yesterday (April 25, 2018) in the early morning hours. It was a fitting ending to his reign of terror to be arrested on National DNA Day. DeAngelo, Jr was brought down by a tip from the public and by DNA. Joseph James DeAngelo, Jr is known as the Golden […]

Filed Under: Solved Tagged With: California, East Area Rapist (EAR), Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, Jr.

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 […]

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

Orange County Jane Doe

December 8, 2016 By Alice

Orange county jane doe 1968

Warning: there are two graphic images below! UPDATE July 2020: IDENTIFIED The Orange County Jane Doe is identified as Anita Louise Piteau. On Wednesday, July 22, the authorities announced that they believe Anita was killed by Johnny Chrisco. Unfortunately, Chrisco passed away in 2015. He was 71 years old. Little is known about him, said Huntington […]

Filed Under: Solved, Unidentified Tagged With: Anita Louise Piteau, California, Orange County, Orange County Jane Doe, Unidentified

Remembering Marion Miley (1914 – 1941)

October 10, 2016 By Alice

Marion Miley

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 […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Solved Tagged With: Capital Punishment, Kentucky, Marion Miley

Guilty verdict in 2009 Noah case

October 18, 2015 By Alice

Trey Noah

Guilty verdict in 2009 Noah case  six years after he disappeared. From the San Antonio Express News: “Shelby C. Moore apologized for concealing his death from worried relatives for months, not telling them he’d helped dump the body in Gillespie County.” Note that Moore (Noah’s cousin) was sentenced to nine years only for tampering with the body […]

Filed Under: Missing Persons, Solved Tagged With: Kendalia, Texas, Trey Noah

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On this website, I write about old, unsolved cases. Most are from the pre-DNA era and are in need of renewed media attention. I only do research and leave the active investigation of these cases to the professionals.

My posts are about homicides, missing and unidentified people, wrongful convictions, and forensics as related to these cases.

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William Thomas Zeigler

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On March 31, 2016, an evidentiary hearing was held to request touch DNA testing. On July 18, 2016, Judge Whitehead denied that request.

On November 23, 2016, an appeal was filed with the Florida Supreme Court. On April 21, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court denied the request for touch DNA analysis.

On May 8, 2017 a motion for a rehearing with the US Supreme Court was filed. It was denied November 13, 2017.

In the summer of 2019, the appeal for DNA testing to the Florida Conviction Integrity Unit was denied.

Richard Lapointe

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In March 2015, the Connecticut State Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Richard lapointe. On Oct 2, 2015, International Wrongful Conviction Day, Richard was set free. The judge ruled that he cannot be retried for the 1987 rape-murder of Mrs. Bernice Martin. Richard Lapointe died on Aug 4, 2020 of Covid19 complications.

In 1987, someone killed Bernice Martin. I hope that she will not become a forgotten file.
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