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Anne Theresa Noblett (1940 – 1957)

April 3, 2020 By Alice

Anne Theresa Noblett/Picture Herts Police

The murder of Anne Theresa Noblett (1940 – 1957) has been dubbed the “Deep Freeze Murder” because when she was found, her body was frozen.  Introduction  On Dec 30, 1957, just after 6pm, Anne Noblett got off the bus. The bus stop was on the corner of Lower Luton Road and Cherry Tree Lane in […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Anne Theresa Noblett, Strangulation, UK

Sally Shepherd, more details

November 19, 2018 By Alice

Sally Shepherd

My readers are the best. I said it before and I will keep saying it. Three readers have contacted me about the Sally Shepherd case providing more details. The Case Sally Shepherd was picked up somewhere in Peckham, South London, stripped naked, raped, and beaten to death at the end of 1979. She was struck […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: beating death, DNA, London, Sally Shepherd, UK

Suzy Lamplugh: excavation unsuccessful

November 13, 2018 By Alice

Suzy Lamplugh / Photograph Handout PA

The Metropolitan Police is still trying to find answers in the case of Suzy Lamplugh (25) who went missing in July 1986. She was officially declared dead and presumed murdered in 1994. Suzy Lamplugh was a realtor and had left her office in London to meet a client only known as Mr. Kipper. The case […]

Filed Under: Missing Persons Tagged With: missing, Susanna "Suzy" J. Lamplugh, UK

Margaret Lightfoot: more details

June 18, 2018 By Alice

margaret lightfoot

Thanks to a UK reader we have these two newspaper clippings about the 1975 cold case of Margaret Lightfoot. I posted about her here. The clipping on the left is hard to read when I enlarge it. From these two clippings, I got the following details that I missed in my earlier post. Cause of […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: Margaret Lightfoot, Strangulation, UK

Mary Flanagan (June 9, 1943 – missing Dec 31, 1959)

March 1, 2018 By Alice

The case of Mary Flanagan is probably the oldest missing person case in the United Kingdom. There is very little online about this case. That’s why I made this the Case of the Month for March 2018. Let’s start with a description of Mary. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall, white, medium build, hazel brown eyes, […]

Filed Under: Case of the Month, Missing Persons Tagged With: Case of the Month, Mary Flanagan, Missing Person, UK

The 1914 murder of David Ombler

October 16, 2017 By Alice

Statute of a grieving angel

David Ombler was 72 years old when he was beaten to death in his own home. His murder is possibly Britain’s oldest unsolved homicide. It happened May 30, 1914. The Case On May 30, 1914, Mr. Ombler (72), a market trader from Hull, was found by his neighbor lying on his back on his kitchen floor […]

Filed Under: Unsolved Tagged With: David Ombler, Hull, UK

Sally Shepherd, Margaret Lightfoot, and Clara Kirton

September 1, 2017 By Alice

Sally Shepherd, Margaret Lightfoot, and Clara Kirton

The unsolved homicides of Sally Shepherd, Margaret Lightfoot, and Clara Kirton feature as Cold Cases of the Month for September 2017. My friend Steve Morton told me about the unsolved homicides of Sally Shepherd and Margaret Lightfoot. I googled their names and found information on the BBC’s website from December, 2016. While reading about Sally’s […]

Filed Under: Case of the Month Tagged With: Case of the Month, Clara Kirton, London, Margaret Lightfoot, Sally Shepherd, Strangulation, UK

The cold case of Bernard Oliver (1950 – Jan 1967)

January 28, 2017 By Alice

Bernard Oliver

The Bernard Oliver case is known as the Tattingstone Suitcase Murder. Suffolk Police is reaching out again to the public for help. No one was ever charged for this murder. Bernard went missing January 6, 1967. He had not come home from an evening out with friends. His dad reported him missing the next day. […]

Filed Under: Forensics, Unsolved Tagged With: Bernard Oliver, Knife Attack, UK

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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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