Defrosting Cold Cases

Bernard Jackson was sentenced today to 18 consecutive life sentences today for rapes he committed in the Waldo and Armour Hills neighborhoods almost 30 years ago. No trial date has yet been set for Jackson’s unresolved criminal case, in which prosecutors accused him of two more recent sexual assaults in the Waldo area. Read more here.

Not sure why I did not post this before but yes, “Adam” has been identified! “The five-year-old’s identity has remained a mystery after he was smuggled into Britain and murdered in a voodoo-style ritual killing. He was drugged with a ‘black-magic’ potion and sacrificed before being thrown into the Thames, where his torso washed up next [...]

Please welcome guest blogger David Russell! David is a corrections officer for a state correctional facility. He has been working for the state for many years and has fairly recently started to blog. “The purpose of this blog is to give an idea of what prison life is like on a day to day basis. [...]

Last night, I was watching the news too and following on CNN and Twitter whether Troy Davis would get executed or not. The case has been discussed online on various places and blogs. So why this post? Because something irritated me. Folks forgot that we have a separation of powers here. People asked some to do [...]

Some of you have been emailing me asking why I have stopped posting about the William Thomas Zeigler case. Am I now convinced that he is guilty? Am I bored with the case? Am I in a clinch with the defense team?   NO to all of the above!   I have been trying to [...]

A fascinating chat with Detective Ken Lang! No matter what technical difficulty presented itself, the chatters have proven to be one heck of a team! We made sure all our tweets could be read on Twitter, TweetChat, TweetDeck and beyond even if those programs did not cooperate with us! So let me thank here: Miriam [...]

Doug Carner‘s company, Forensic Protection, has a great offer for law enforcement so Vidster gladly posts this message: _______________________________________________________________ The lab at Forensic Protection has invented some of the industry’s most advanced audio – video enhancement and authentication tools. They routinely donate their resources to help law enforcement solve cold cases. Real world examples, click here. More details here. If [...]

“A preliminary hearing was held Wednesday for two men accused in the shooting deaths of two San Diego-based sailors in Otay Mesa 18 years ago.  The hearing for Edward Jesus Elias and Leopoldo Castro Chavez II, both 35, was to have started Tuesday morning but was postponed until Wednesday because one of the defense attorneys [...]

Our #cclivechat on September 16 will be a very special one since we will be joined by Detective Ken Lang. Ken will explain post-mortem drawings and 3D skull reconstructions to us. As preparation, watch this clip:

Finally, Vidster had some time to make a round around the blawgs! It is always a pleasure to see what my friends are blogging about and I frequently end up laughing till the coffee comes out of my nose. Someone who police stories always manages to do that is the one and only Suzie Ivy [...]