Defrosting Cold Cases

After hearing very sad news yesterday, I could not fall asleep so I decided to pick up a short story to help distract my mind. David Cranmer and I have been connected on Twitter for some time with me teasing him to make his “Cash Lamarie” series available for Nook. I knew that Cranmer writes under [...]

This recap is courtesy of Sue Carney! Today saw a massive turnout of cold case live chat stalwarts, old and new, for a regular-style cold case brainstorming session. Sadly, just as chat began, Vidster had received the tragic news of the death of his friend Phillip Finch, staunch supporter in the Zeigler case. As Vidster quite [...]

I just heard that a friend and a fierce supporter in the fight to get justice for William Thomas Zeigler, passed away. Phillip Finch died at the age of 63 after losing the battle to cancer. An accomplished author, Phil published some books based on true stories. One of them was of course “Fatal Flaw.” [...]

We had a very hot Cold Case Live Chat today with Andrew Wade who introduced us to fire investigations. Amongst the many questions Andrew answered a few issues stood out. Those issues feature in many arson cases on appeal right now. As I said before, a V-pattern does not necessarily point to the fire’s origin. [...]

Silvia Pettem’s new book “Cold Case Research” is in production now and will be on the market July 2012. As per the previous post, we did not have a cover design at that time. Now we do! A description of the book can be found here. Silvia has extensive experience with all aspects of cold [...]

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Candace J. Beason scheduled an April 3, 2012, pre-trial hearing in the case of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter a.k.a. Clark Rockefeller a.k.a. Christopher Chichester a.k.a. Christopher Crowe. Gerhartsreiter is acccused with the murder of John Sohus, his then-landlady’s son. John and his wife Linda disappeared in the mid-1980s. John’s skull and remaining skeleton were found [...]

I have become addicted to downloading books on my Nook, yes. But on the other hand, it has made travelling light a possibility instead of an utopia! The downside is of course, that I have downloaded so many books that if I were to review all those books separately, that would be the only thing [...]

This Friday, we will be joined by Andrew Wade for #cclivechat and I have some burning questions for him. We have seen many cases re-investigated in the USA where forensic arson detection plays a role. I pointed you to the case of Han Tak Lee in my previous Sum it up! and now we have [...]

Please welcome a new guest blogger, the author Linda Poitevin! Linda generously agreed to share some secrets with us related to blog tours. As you know, DCC participated in some blog tours and I have met some great people and authors this way. That in turn resulted in collaborations, book reviews and more. Linda Poitevin is [...]

Blood Pattern Analysis: A follow up to #cclivechat of Feb 3, 2012, Part I (or, How I Punched a Side of Pork in a Sheffield Morgue) by Sue Carney ___________ In this week’s #cclivechat we focused on blood pattern analysis. The previous week we’d touched on the issues of whether it might be possible to [...]