Kathleen was the #cclivechat guest host for this week with Joe Giacalone since your truly was detained. Her recap is here. The verbatim thread is below. Kathleen started a discussion regarding the recent discovery of a 5th body on Gilgo Beach. When a K-9 officer searched Gilgo Beach in December for missing person Shannan Gilbert, […]
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Vidocq presents Michelle Hynes!
Michelle Hynes LLB (Hons) is a multiple award winning law graduate from the University of Glasgow. She has recently finished studying for the Diploma in Legal Practice and is en-route to the Faculty of Advocates where she hopes to be called to the Scottish Bar. Michelle’s journey to the legal profession has been marked by personal tragedy. She […]
Recap cclivechat March 25, 2011
A roller coaster CCLiveChat that went on for 90 minutes if we had not been called back to our daily duties! We started of with my request for help. There are cases were I could use help researching a cold case, post an introduction to the case, and then keep the case up to date. […]
Update Stephen Miera
Stephen Miera may have been forgotten by the media and the authorities but he is not forgotten by his family. His youngest sister, Antonia Light, emailed me some memories. Antonia remembered that her mother had hired a private detective to see what he could find out. She thinks that his last name was Stone. This private detective […]
Recap #cclivechat March 18, 2011
A fast-paced #cclivechat that still has my mind spinning… here goes: Joined by TRLeVeque, KatCop13, TanyaGoodwinDoc, SarahEGlenn, BlueDog89, IowaColdCases, WyndhamForensic, OceanBluePress, WorldCrime, and of course, ColdCaseSquad, our discussions focussed on digital forensics in the cases of Novak and Wei, we touched on the Linda Sohus case, we discussed extradition, Crime Stoppers, rewards, and facial mapping. The […]
Do you recognise this man?
On November 25, 2007, Jason Wei, restaurant owner and father of two young children, was murdered during a robbery at the Osaka Ya Sushi Restaurant at 815 West Naomi Avenue, Arcadia, CA. Despite efforts, there are few leads. I quote from the Arcadia Police Officer’s Association Info Blog: “The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted today […]
Vidocq presents the Legal Bizzle!
Our Legal Bizzle is an in house commercial/contracts lawyer, mostly doing outsourcing work. He spends his days arguing with sales managers and tries to work as much Latin as possible into his contracts. In the evenings, he blogs passive-aggressively at The Bizzle. He also tweets. His answers to my questions: 1: What is your most favourite part of […]
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 […]
Luke Whyte on maximun security prisons
Meet Luke Whyte. He interviewed a sergeant at Pelican Bay State Prison, California (PBSP). “Pelican Bay State Prison is the end of the line; designed to contain and isolate California’s most dangerous inmates. In the event of an earthquake, its walls are designed to collapse inward.” Pelican Bay opened in 1989, principally to house the […]
The FBI on the 1965 murder of Rev. James Reeb
The FBI’s Cold Case Initiative is investigating the 46-year-old case of James Reeb, a Massachusetts minister who was beaten to death in Alabama while doing civil rights work, a spokesman said Friday. The FBI launched an initiative in 2007 to investigate unsolved murders from the civil rights era. A spokesman with the agency, Chris Allen, said […]