Defrosting Cold Cases

All the very best wishes from Clouseau & Vidster!   See you in 2012!

Our chat today was with Gary Howard a.k.a. TriniCSI on Twitter and we discussed the chemical treatment of fingerprints. And despite mind-boggling technical difficulties we got an excellent conversation going. We touched on the three types of fingerprints that can be found at a crime scene, blood transfers, latent and patent prints, and the different [...]

Since 1974, the Caughlin Family has been wondering why their beloved 14 year old Karen had to die. To this date, there are no answers. Maybe we will never get the answers we need but then again, it might be possible with the help of some special people. The Caughlin Family would like to have [...]

From the New York Times: “In an opinion that harshly criticizes the tactics of the police and prosecutors, an Illinois appellate court on Friday night reversed the conviction of Juan Rivera, who has spent 19 years in jail for the 1992 rape and murder of an 11-year-old baby sitter in a suburb of Chicago. There [...]

Another case of senseless violence that costs a police officer his life. Yesterday, Virginia Tech Police Officer Deriek Crouse was shot in the head and killed during a routine traffic stop. He had not even exited his car yet. The driver of the car stopped was a third party. The shooter could be seen on [...]

  Rockford Police (IL) are going to set up a cold case website next year! “Over the years in Rockford, hundreds of murder cases have gone unsolved and many leads have now gone cold. The Rockford Police are in the process of setting up a new website they hope will help them close the book [...]

I am opening this post for those of you who’d like to send a short message for the upcoming Holiday Season and the New Year to William Thomas Zeigler. Below this post in the comment section, you can place your messages, encouragements, and best wishes. I will print the entire post and mail it to [...]

Today’s chat was a great hour of “getting the gang back together” as well as updating everyone on cold cases worldwide! Joe Giacalone had some fantastic news considering his book: the New Jersey Civil Service Commission has made his book required reading for police promotional exams! Congratulations, Joe! We started with updates on the Long Island [...]

This is the original crime scene diagram made by private detective George Anan who was hired by the defense in 1976 and who searched the furniture store together with attorney Vernon Davids. In a two-week examination of the store, Davids and Annan found a .38 caliber slug and a .38 caliber exit hole in the [...]

From the Netherlands: The prosecution announced today that Willeke Dost‘s foster parents are no longer regarded as suspects. The court in the city of Assen had told the prosecution that if they wanted to prosecute the foster mother and foster brother, it had to do so before Jan 1, 2012. Right now there does not [...]