Defrosting Cold Cases

From Cirque du Soleil’s “Varekai” -  Claudio Carneiro performs “Ne me quitte pas.”

In the past week, four people have been robbed in Toronto after withdrawing money from downtown bank machines by a team of thieves who furtively squirt them with feces and then distract them by offering to clean their clothing. In the process, they steal their money. Police warned the public of the scam Friday and [...]

Nearly three weeks since Elizabeth Heath’s remains were found, the medical examiner still has not identified the cause of death, police said. “They’re still doing forensic testing,” Police Chief Michael Kehoe said of staff at the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Kehoe said the medical examiner’s office has more work to do before [...]

A pretrial hearing for Darrell Lee Kastel, accused in the 1979 death of a Farmington supermarket supervisor Julius Schnoll, has been moved. Kastel, 56, was scheduled to have a pretrial hearing at the end of April in front of Oakland Circuit Judge Rae Lee Chabot, but the hearing was adjourned to Tuesday, June 8, 2010. [...]

There are problems at another HPD lab. Thousands of cases from the latent fingerprint lab were under review after an audit discovered examiners missed prints or didn’t accurately analyze others. Last Tuesday, we learned the results of the review. The latent fingerprint lab has been under scrutiny since last year when a random review of [...]

The Fox family of Illinois finally has some closure after an imprisoned sex offender was charged with the 2004 murder of 3-year-old Riley Fox, a crime that Riley’s father originally confessed to committing. It’s been a terrible ordeal for the family because even with DNA clearing Kevin in 2005, many people persisted in the belief [...]

Police believed millionaire loan shark Quang Lu was murdered shortly after he disappeared in October 2007. The discovery of a body in a barrel last week on Sunday proved the prediction by police specializing in Asian organized crime was correct. Homicide detectives said Tuesday the well-preserved body of the Thornhill man known on the streets [...]

Police have identified the body found encrusted in cement, inside a barrel that was pulled from Lake Ontario, as that of Quang Lu. The 47-year-old man went missing from Markham in October 2007 after retuning from a trip to China. Police told 680News Lu was known to them and had ties to Asian organized crime. [...]

On December 9, 1955, around 2am in the morning, police received a call from a taxi driver. He had seen a delivery van parked on Acadia Street, at the corner with Roome, in an unusual manner. Police found the body of Mr. Resk inside the Chevrolet delivery truck.  This is the oldest case on HRP’s Unsolved Major Crimes List, see [...]

Today, I’d like to draw your attention to some Canadian Cold Cases. The Halifax Regional Police has a website with links dedicated to their unsolved crimes and they are asking for your help. I am shamelessly copying their list since they did their’s so well! You see the names of the victims involved, incident date, and file number [...]