The Caughlin family has been very cooperative and courageously opened up the lines of communication with me. I have alerted them to every post and and every comment and they have read everything. This message was sent to me and is for all who work on the case, for all DCC readers, and especially for […]
Unsolved
Vidocq presents Laura Madison!
Allow me to introduce you to a Canuckistani winter dwellin’ digital Criminologist Laura Madison who tweets as Org9. 1: What is your most favourite part of the day? Early Evening 2: What is the worst kind of person you ever sat next to on a flight? Snot inspector who then ate his captives… 3: Were you ever […]
Laura Henderson-Ibach, A life lost and many lives destroyed
Please welcome guest blogger Tiah who will be covering the cold case of Laura Henderson-Ibach. Unlike most guest bloggers on my site, Tiah is not involved in the legal world. Instead, she is an accountant, a far leap from the world of forensics and law! Tiah has assisted on appeal cases in the past; she was […]
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 […]
Recap #cclivechat April 15, 2011
A flurry of information passed us again in this CCLiveChat. It shows that starting #cclivechat on Twitter was the right thing to do. Joe and I were joined by many today and we discussed a string of cases and issues in criminology. Joe reported about the Long Island Beach murders and victims found in his backyard and alerted us […]
The 1974 cold case of Karen Caughlin
The 1974 murder of Karen Caughlin By Miriam Said with Alice de Sturler Introduction Sarnia, Canada: a quiet border city on the Canadian side of the Blue Water Bridge linking Sarnia’s neighbouring village of Point Edward to the city of Port Huron, Michigan in the United States of America. Here, thirty-seven year ago, Karen Caughlin […]
Vidocq presents Ben Leb!
Ben Leb is reading law at a university in the East of England. As a student he enjoys mooting, debating, negotiating and is also a committee member of his university’s student law society. He doesn’t quite know what he wants to specialize in, but he enjoys reading and writing on different matters that catch his […]
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 […]
The Murder of Christine Prince
Please welcome guest blogger M.L. Poncelet. After hearing about the 1982 Christine Prince case, she agreed to guest blog about it. Asked how she would describe herself: “I’m a cosy mystery writer living on the west coast of Canada in an area that is full of characters and inspiration for my stories. I also enjoy being an […]
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), […]