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Recap #CrimeChat Sept 16, 2013

September 16, 2013 By Alice

sum it up #cclivechat

Recap #CrimeChat Sept 16, 2013. Today’s #CrimeChat was about real CSI. Retrieving DNA from certain surfaces can be done by swabbing and taping but those methods may not work 100% on porous surfaces, brick, concrete or, wet surfaces. The M-Vac is a wet-vacuum sampling system. Jared Bradley, tweeting as mvacsys, said: “think of a medical […]

Filed Under: #crimechat, Forensics Tagged With: #crimechat, DNA recovery, Evidence, M-Vac Systems, Miscarriage of Justice, William Thomas Zeigler, Wrongful Convictions

Sum it Up! #42

September 9, 2013 By Alice

sum it up

This Sum it Up was about great blog posts. Paul Cutler‘s “A Barrister’s Blog” got voted most favourite Australian legal blog on the blog from the Separovic Injury Lawyers. Congrats to Paul! Suzie Ivie had an interesting MJ weekend and I do not mean that’s she was moonwalking her thriller beat. No, she was at […]

Filed Under: Sum it up! Tagged With: #crimechat, Andrew Wade, Emily Webb, fire risk assessment, Iowa Cold Cases, Jody Ewing, Nathaniel Carnagy, Paul Cutler, Sum it Up!, Suzie Ivy, The Writing PIs

Recap #CrimeChat Aug 26, 2013 with David Swinson

August 26, 2013 By Alice

Hands typing on a keyboard - drawing

Recap #CrimeChat Aug 26, 2013 with David Swinson. This hour combined being a cop with promoting rock punk while jotting down ideas for books. We found out that all along David wanted to be a writer. Thinking he’d get a couple of good stories working for a while as a cop … well, he became […]

Filed Under: #crimechat Tagged With: #crimechat, David Swinson

Jacques on blogging

March 28, 2013 By Alice

Dina Fort/Cold Case Database

Jacques’ #crimechat answers on blogging: the questions you posted in #crimechat March 22, 2013 answered below: Before I answer your great questions, I would like to tell you a bit more about blogging, search engines and how to get rich quickly. Blogging When people ask me if they should start blogging, I usually answer ‘no‘. […]

Filed Under: #crimechat Tagged With: #crimechat, Analytics, Jacques Soudan, SEO

Recap #crimechat March 22, 2013: the tech side of blogging

March 22, 2013 By Alice

Recap #crimechat March 22, 2013: the tech side of blogging this #crimechat was an attempt to collect your questions related to the technical side of blogging. The tech side kept me from blogging for a long time. I would see a blog, think that I could do that too, and then … wonder about a million […]

Filed Under: #crimechat Tagged With: #crimechat, blogging, Jacques Soudan

#crimechat March 22: Tech Talk!

March 3, 2013 By Alice

#crimechat March 22: Tech Talk! I will be collecting questions about the tech side of blogging between 10-1pm EST. All these questions will be answered by my tech man and webmaster par excellence: Jacques Soudan. If you use Twitter: tweet me your blogging related question and add the hashtag #crimechat. I will collect all those […]

Filed Under: #crimechat Tagged With: #crimechat, Jacques Soudan

Recap #CrimeChat Feb 16, 2013

February 16, 2013 By Alice

Recap #CrimeChat Feb 16, 2013 Subject: King Richard III A fascinating 90+ minutes with a line-up of great people on Twitter all discussing the finding of Richard’s skeleton, his armour, his reign and fate, and of course … could he have killed his older brother’s children. As requested, some links: my mini-series on the cold […]

Filed Under: #crimechat Tagged With: #crimechat, DNA, Forensics, Henry Tudor, minority rulers, Mitochondrial DNA, Princes in the Tower, regicide, Richard III, the Battle of Bosworth, UK

Recap #crimechat Feb 10, 2013

February 10, 2013 By Alice

King Richard III

Crimechat recap from Feb 10, 2013. Our subject: Richard III & the Princes in the Tower. There was so much to talk about. We did not even have time to talk about the recent discoveries, the facial reconstruction, where to rebury the King and more. Richard III (October 2, 1452 – August 22, 1485) was King of England […]

Filed Under: #crimechat Tagged With: #crimechat, Autopsy, Edward V, Evidence, Henry Tudor, Identification, Richard III, Richard of York, Stacey Bowcott, the Princes in the Tower, UK

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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.

On book reviews: I only review select works of true crime, crime fiction, and historical fiction/mysteries. The stories have to fit my website's theme and research. It remains my prerogative to not review a book.

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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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