Fingerprints identify 1990 UK M25 victim! New fingerprint technology has enabled police to identify a woman who was killed on the M25 in Hertfordshire, UK, 20 years ago. The victim’s name: Lesley Ann Pickavance. Lesley Ann had been in contact with her family, who are from Bedford, but was not living with them during the summer […]
Forensics
Riley Fox: Ignored Evidence
Looking back in the Riley Fox case it is always easier to point out how many mistakes police made during that investigation. Some goof-ups need to be exposed especially since it could have prevented an even bigger one. This ignored piece of evidence in the case of Riley Fox could have spared her father a […]
Zeigler, Part XI
Zeigler, Part XI: On Juror Intimidation and Judicial Override You can debate all you want but I have made up my mind; Zeigler is guilty! That was what jury foreman Charles Ashley announced right after he had been elected foreman. According to other jurors, he had made up his mind about two weeks prior … […]
Willeke Dost: foster mother and brother released
The woman and man arrested in the Willeke Dost case have been released. Herna Mulder was the foster mother and Bart is her son. Willeke Dost lived with the Mulder family before she disappeared in 1992. There is no evidence so far that they are responsible for Willeke’s death but they remain suspects in this […]
Was Claude Jones Wrongly Executed?
A state judge has ordered East Texas prosecutors to hand over key evidence from a 1989 murder case to the Innocence Project and The Texas Observer for DNA testing—analysis that may prove for the first time that Texas executed an innocent man. The Innocence Project and the Observer filed suit in 2007 to obtain a […]
Conviction in 1987 Nancy Eileen Converse murder
A man who strangled Nancy Eileen Converse to death 23 years ago was sentenced to two decades in prison, after Portland’s Cold Case Unit dug into the case and matched his DNA to the crime scene. James Samuel Owens (67) plead no contest to first-degree manslaughter in the death of Nancy Eileen Converse (42). She was […]
Arrest in Trey Noah case
Murder charges have been filed against two acquaintances of Trey Noah who vanished in November 2009 and whose remains were found five months later in Gillespie County, Texas. Gillespie County Sheriff Buddy Mills said Shelby C. Moore, 19, of Kendalia was arrested late Thursday at the Sheriff’s Office in Fredericksburg, and that Brandon L. Harber, 19, was […]
Willeke Dost: no remains found
So far, police has not been able to find any human remains around the Koekange Farm from the Mulder family in the Netherlands, where Willeke Dost lived until she disappeared in 1992. This does not mean that the investigation is over but merely, that another strategy is being considered. On January 15, 1992, Willeke Dost (15) left […]
Guilty Plea in 1980 murder of William Cooke
In July 1980, William Cooke (49) was found stabbed to death in the Ramada Inn, Lafayette, Indiana. Police took an ashtray with a cigarette butt with them as evidence. In 1980, DNA testing was unavailable. Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Steve Kohne said that the case went cold a few days after the murder. He even […]
Update Willeke Dost
Thanks to Jacques and others in the Netherlands, we have a translation in English from a clip shown in the Netherlands about the Willeke Dost case. Some scenes are reconstructions but the people who speak in front of the camera, are all related to Willeke Dost Jacques put together a brief overview of the people […]