Defrosting Cold Cases

The Lost King of France by Deborah Cadbury This book combines Vidocq’s passion for historical mysteries, cold cases, and forensics! My interest was peaked after watching the movie “the Scarlet Pimpernel” with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour. The book by Baroness Emmuska Orczy was tedious and less amusing than the movie. Vidocq’s attraction to “the Scarlet Pimpernel” is easily [...]

Tags: Anastasia Romanov, Anthony Andrews, Austria, Book Reviews, Burial, Child Abuse, Cruelty, Deborah Cadbury, DNA, Execution, Forensics, France, Historical Mystery, Louis-Charles, Marie-Therese, Maternal Line, Mitochondrial DNA, Prince, Princess, Public Execution, Queen, Robespierre, Royalist, Saint-Denis, Scarlet Pimpernel, the Dauphin

On Sunday December 21, 1986 at 00:14 a.m., Eric Beasley was pronounced dead at Burham Hospital. He died of multiple gun shot wounds. His body was found on Saturday December 20, 1986 around 23:45 p.m. on North Randolph Street, Champaign, IL.

Tags: Antimony, Barium, Champaign, Colt .32, DNA, Drugs, Eric Dennis Beasley, FBI, Finger Printing, Forensics, Illinois, Police, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses