A short one just alerting you to some interesting things I found in the mailbox: Starting this Friday, March 9, 2012 on Investigation Discovery the movie “An Appointment With Death” will show you interviews with five death row inmates in Florida and Texas awaiting their execution. It is a four-part miniseries. More information is here. [...]
Tags: 3D Skull Reconstruction, Bernice Martin, DNA, Forensics, Richard LapointeWe 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. [...]
Tags: Andrew Wade, Arson Detection, Cameron Todd Willingham, Capital Punishment, Crime Scene, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Fire investigations, Forensics, Identification, Miscarriage of Justice, UKLos 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 [...]
Tags: Autopsy, California, Crime Scene, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, John and Linda Sohus, Missing Person, VictimThis 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 [...]
Tags: Arson Detection, Cameron Todd Willingham, cclivechat, Daniel Dougherty, Forensics, Han Tak Lee, Kenneth RicheyBlood 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 [...]
Tags: Blood Pattern Analysis, cclivechat, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, DNA, Forensics, Identification, Sue CarneyIt has been dubbed the most entertaining Cold Case Live Chat ever and the only thing I did was mention snot. He! We were talking about body fluids so it was not that far out, right? But seriously, we had an enlightening chat with Sue Carney about blood patterns, how they evolve, wet versus dry [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Sue CarneyFriday the 13th! It was tempting fate and indeed something happened. Air plane delays messed up Richard Case‘s travel plans. Our #cclivechat therefore began much early with questions and answers send via email and Twitter. At the noon hour, several other CSI folks jumped in and we learned a great deal today! 1: Can you [...]
Tags: cclivechat, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Richard Mark CaseOur 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 [...]
Tags: cclivechat, chemical treatment of fingerprints, Finger Printing, Forensics, Gary HowardSince 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 [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Canada, Crime Scene, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Karen Caughlin, Michigan, OPP, Police, Sarnia, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesFrom 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 [...]
Tags: Actual Innocence, Autopsy, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Illinois, Investigations Division, Juan Rivera, Miscarriage of Justice, Police, Prisons, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Rape kits, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses, Wrongful Convictions
