A sober Sum it Up. Frank Bender, forensic artist/sculptor, is battling lung cancer. He spent a lifetime helping authorities solving crimes by contouring the faces of murder victims and the unidentified. Frank Bender primarily works in clay and then casts his pieces into plaster and paints them, but he has also aged fugitives using pastels. […]
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Sum it up! #15
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 […]
Sum it up! #14
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 […]
Sum it up! 12+13
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), […]
Week 10: sum it up!
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 […]
Sum it up! #9
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 […]
Sum it Up! #8
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 […]
Sum it Up! #7
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 […]
Sum it up! #6
For this Sum it Up, I, have done a lot of listening. I listened to family members who desperately wish to have answers. I “listened” to case files in hopes that I would catch what they were trying to tell me, and I listened to new proposals for collaborations. When I made my round around […]
Sum it up! #5
In this Sum it up I’d like to draw your attention to four websites or blogs that have kept me busy reading all week. The first one is “the Civil Rights Cold Case Project.” On this site you can find information about cases related to the Civil Rights Era and some you will recognize since […]