Defrosting Cold Cases

Detroit, Michigan: Her stage name was Strawberry and the rumour goes that she danced for the wrong people at a party at the mayor’s mansion and was executed because she knew too much. The case went cold but when the Mayor got into trouble, Greene’s case came resurfaced.  A former homicide investigator claims that he is convinced that the [...]

Kyron Horman vanished June 4. His stepmother, Terri Horman, said she last saw him walking down a hallway toward class at Skyline Elementary School in Portland, police said. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (Oregon) has asked anyone who was at Skyline Elementary on the day Kyron disappeared if he or she recalled seeing his stepmother [...]

Sworn testimony from Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in the Tamara Greene murder investigation will remain under court seal for the time being. Federal Judge Gerald Rosen ruled against the media’s request to unseal documents in the case, saying he wants to protect the ongoing investigation and the privacy of third parties. Rosen had previously [...]

UK Police could still use some help in the case of Josephine Backshall, 39, of Maldon, Essex, UK. She was discovered in Bury Green near Bishop’s Stortford on November 1, 1974. Josephine was last seen by her family at about 1800 GMT on Tuesday October 29, 1974, when she left her home to keep an appointment in Witham, [...]

NPR brings us the news that officials in Franklin County, Mississippi, have agreed to settle a civil suit charging county law enforcement officials with aiding and abetting the Ku Klux Klan in the 1964 murders of Charles Moore and Henry Dee. NPR’s Michele Norris spoke to Margaret Burnham, an attorney for the families of Moore and Dee, [...]

Edward Edwards, of Louisville, Ky., was arrested after DNA connected him to the deaths of Tim Hack and his girlfriend, Kelly Drew, who disappeared from a Wisconsin wedding reception in August 1980. Their bodies were found weeks later in the woods. Investigators believe Hack was stabbed and Drew strangled. Auhorities said the state crime lab matched Edwards’ [...]

New fingerprint technology has enabled police to identify a woman who was killed on the M25 in Hertfordshire, UK, 20 years ago. The victim’s name: Lesley Ann Pickavance. Lesley Ann had been in contact with her family, who are from Bedford, but was not living with them during the summer of 1990. What she did, where [...]

They are being displayed to the public for the first time in Mont Valérien, a 19th century fort outside Paris, France, where the Nazis executed more than 1,000 resistance fighters and hostages during the Second World War – the largest number in one site in France. The Nazis arrested Resistance members and “hostages” – mainly Communists [...]

I just logged out of Twitter. Amongst the abundant Fathers’ Day greetings on this terribly commercialized day, I read a lot of tweets from people who were genuinely heart broken. Some never knew their father, some fathers are incarcerated, some had fathers who died of natural causes and some fathers were brutally murdered. Some had fathers [...]

If you are promoting stolen merchandize make sure the picture does not give you away! Manchester Police couldn’t have wished for better proof of Stephen Taylor’s guilt. After coming into contact with stolen watches worth £4,000, Taylor draped them over his hand and took a high quality photo with his camera phone.  But the image [...]