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Gun Violence

February 21, 2021 By Alice

Every year, too many people die of gun violence. Too many of those cases do not get solved. I want to highlight two cases here. Searching in newspaper archives, I have found little that can solve either. So, this is a post with two cases as works-in-progress. I could have kept them as drafts however, that […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: gun violence, Jesus Daniel Corona-Paredes, Kansas, Kansas City, Kentucky, Louisville, Thomas Dwayne Everett

Donald Ray Watson (1953 – 1978)

February 18, 2021 By Alice

Donald Ray Watson

Donald Ray Watson (nickname Buddy) was 25 years old when he was killed. Buddy (March 13, 1953 – April 20, 1978) was on his way home from work. He was a husband to Brenda Faye Watson and a father to three young children. He worked in the Southeastern Kentucky coal mines. Buddy was ambushed and […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Donald Ray Watson, Gun Fire, Kentucky

David Alonzo Van Meter (1904-1975)

June 28, 2020 By Alice

David Alonzo Van Meter, his horse Prince, and his nephew Goldman Cruse.

David Alonzo Van Meter is one of those cases you hit upon after an email, a tweet, and then a reader sent an old newspaper clipping. According to the family, his name is Alonzo and not Lonzo. As I have no further documentation, I use the name Alonzo. This case is unsolved however, I did […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: David Alonzo Van Meter, gunshot, Kentucky

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

Update Albert Ray McQueen

September 23, 2014 By Alice

Albert Ray McQueen's grave, courtesy of his family

Update Albert Ray McQueen was made possible after emails with his family. I quote: “Albert was missing for a year before his bones were found in 1980. Two siblings went up to the gorge and they are the ones who found his glasses and a piece of his vertebrae that the police missed. He was […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News, Unsolved Tagged With: Albert Ray McQueen, Eastern State Hospital, Gun Fire, Kentucky

What happened to Albert Ray McQueen?

January 27, 2013 By Alice

Lady Justice

What happened to Albert Ray McQueen? On March 1979, Albert Ray McQueen was committed to Eastern State Hospital, a Kentucky mental institution, by court order. On March 23, 1979, McQueen somehow left the hospital. He was reported missing six weeks later on May 2, 1979! In this time period, then hospital director Ralph claimed that […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Albert Ray McQueen, Eastern State Hospital, Gun Fire, Kentucky

Recap #cclivechat Aug 3, 2012

August 3, 2012 By Alice

Our guest today was Virginia Braden! Virginia Braden is a licensed Private Investigator and Behavioral Profiler specializing in violent crimes and cold case investigations. This includes death investigations, missing persons, and unidentified remains cases as well as rapes, sexual and physical assaults, stalking, domestic violence cases and elder abuse and child abuse cases. Virginia Braden […]

Filed Under: #CCLiveChat, Forensics, Unidentified Tagged With: Autopsy, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Joe McGinty, Kentucky, Missing Person, Police, Unidentified, Victim, Virginia Braden

Kentucky State Police’s Unsolved Cases

February 25, 2011 By Alice

The Kentucky State Police is actively pursuing new ways to get answers in their unsolved cases. They have distributed 400 card decks to inmates in hopes to get tips about some of their cases featured on the card decks. If you like to see the card deck, click here. From the Evansville Courier and Press: “The […]

Filed Under: Help the Cops! Tagged With: Cold Cases, Kentucky, Kentucky State Police

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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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