Sum it Up!

A great morning to write a Sum it Up, drinking drinking coffee, and making my round around the blogs. It is great to see people blogging. But before we get to the blogs, we must first pause. The mother of Suzie Lamplugh has passed away. She fought hard after Suzie disappeared to find her daughter and […]

A mixed week in this Sum it Up. Mixed because I did a lot and also, nothing at all. Caught some typos on the blog posts, rewrote the FAQ homepage, but did not add much blogging. Why? Good questions! I had no clue until I opened the file with bookmarks. Then it was clear what […]

In this Sum it Up we focus on help to identify the unidentified that is coming from a new direction. “The computed tomography scanning machines at Inova Alexandria Hospital are typically used to diagnose strokes, blood clots and other internal injuries. But recently the hospital utilized its CT scanners for an unconventional purpose: to examine […]

A few quick updates in this Sum it Up: the Huffington Post reports that “James Ford Seale, a long-time member of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who very nearly got away with murder, has died. After serving less than four years of three life sentences for the 1964 murders of Henry […]

Welcome to another Sum it Up! Exciting times with a lot happening during the summer. It deserves a Sum it Up post. Of course, I am thrilled to tell you that my post about the Penn State CSI Students’ opinion in the William Thomas Zeigler case has soared to DCC’s most popular and best read […]

It has been a while since I did a “Sum it Up” post. They will still be numbered but will not appear weekly anymore. I have received many questions from DCC readers and others about Elizabeth Short’s case (the Black Dahlia). Because of the slow down during the summer months, I have decided to keep collecting […]

Week 24: Sum it up!. Between 1933 and 1945, millions of children were displaced as a result of persecution by the Nazis and their collaborators. After World War II, relief agencies photographed some of the children who survived to help find their families. Now, more than 65 years later, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is […]

Welcome to another Sum it up! The case turned cold by 2005, after tests showed that blood found at the crime scene matched neither the victim nor her relatives or friends. The evidence was run through the state’s database. Last year, it found a match with an offender already in the system. Tulsa, OK: “After […]

Welcome to another Sum it up! The UK Police is breaking the law by keeping DNA of the innocent in national database. The Chief who refuse to drop those profiles act unlawfully and violate privacy rights of those involved. “The ruling by the most senior judges in England and Wales says that the current police policy […]

Welcome to another Sum it Up! We are gearing up for National Police Week in the USA to pay tribute to those fallen in the line of duty but also to the wonderful men and women serving every day. Cleared by DNA: Johnny Pinchback was released from prison after 27 years.  He’s the 22nd person cleared […]

Week 15: Sum it up! This was a very active week with lots of movement in decade old cold cases. I could not be more pleased. Many of the cases were highlighted in the media, some on blogs and some of course, here on DCC. We start with Sum it up! with a loss for Professor […]

Welcome to Sum it Up #14. He always handled cases for victims but one day, he became one. In this Dum it Up the story of a UK police man who one day became a rape victim. He now wonders whether what we do during investigations (even with the best intentions) might not be the best we […]

In this Sum it Up: great progress is being made in Ireland to solve some of their cold cases. A variety of police officers are looking into the cases of Paul Ryan (April 2003), Sandra Collins (Dec 2000), Emer O’Loughlin (April 2005), Dessie Fox (Sep 1990), Raonaid Murray (Sep 1999), Bernard Brian McGrath (March 1987), […]

A wonderful mixed bag last week of articles and posts to make you laugh, cry, break out in a rash or want to grab a shovel! Not necessarily in that order for this Sum it Up: Paul Cutler over at a Barrister’s blog has a post that you must read. It is a “how to […]

A few days ago, Twitter’s Legal Eagle Michelle posed a question. She called lawyers into action and asked them to provide tips for law students. Let’s start with that for this Sum it Up. I have four tips. Here is number one: rulings are not about what is morally right and, what is legally right […]

Let’s do things differently this Sum it Up and not highlight cold cases or DNA. If you filter those out from what I read this week there are enough exciting and sometimes chilling articles and posts left to write about. Granta’s article “A beheading” is bone chilling and an ice cold, brilliantly written account by […]

This week’s Sum it Up is about relief for many people. First of all, for Victor Nealon in the UK. In 1996, Victor Nealon was accused of an attempted sexual assault. Now, there is hope that we can prove his innocence. “Lawyers for a man jailed for attempted sexual assault believe his release is one […]