Defrosting Cold Cases

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Michigan has not forgotten its cold cases and is working diligently towards justice for the victims. “In Oakland County, law enforcement has stepped up efforts to close cases, aggressively pursuing old homicides. Their efforts have paid off. Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper has obtained convictions against seven men in six old murders in the last two [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Michigan, Missing Person, Police, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses

The case of Betsy Aardsma is more alive than ever. Derek Sherwood has been working hard on a book to collect all the available information and to add his thoughts about this case. He generously agreed to make an excerpt available for DCC’s readers from the chapter entitled “As Time Goes By,” in his book ”Who Killed Betsy?” [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Betsy Aardsma, Book Reviews, Crime Scene, DNA, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Partial Finger Printing, PennState University, Pennsylvania, Police, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses

David V. Neily by Sue Carney David Neily at his daughter’s wedding, July 2005 “Love has no boundaries of time or space. It survives forever without nourishment or encouragement to flow forth as the pure water from the blossom of the Earth’s Heart.” David Neily This poem was written by David Neily, a creative and [...]

Tags: DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Historical Mystery, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, Victim

We are finally able to see the face of the lady known as Grace Doe. Please take a look and see whether you recognize her. Police believe Grace was killed more than a month before her remains were discovered and that it had probably happened on Halloween night, 1990. A witness reported nearly 20 years [...]

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The Observer reports that “The Ontario Provincial Police won’t be handing over its investigation of the Karen Caughlin murder to another police agency for external review. Commissioner Chris Lewis is confident OPP detectives have conducted a “thorough and professional” investigation and will not ask for an independent review of the cold case file, Insp. Dave [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Canada, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Karen Caughlin, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Sarnia, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses

A request from the Rotterdam Cold Case Squad in the Netherlands: If you have any information at all about the life of John Sweeney and in particular, his travels to and in the Netherlands, please contact the Rotterdam Police. “John Sweeney, 54, from Liverpool, was given a whole life tariff at the Old Bailey after [...]

Tags: Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, the Netherlands, UK, Unsolved Homicide

1: Karen had a tire mark on her back The tire mark was observed by Karen’s father in the morgue when he came to identify Karen. According to the family, the parents did go in first. Karen’s mother positively identified Karen but then broke down. She was not able to give officials further information about [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Canada, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Karen Caughlin, Police, Sarnia, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses

We still need to find out in what condition Karen’s clothes were found and whether the paint chips were on the back or the front of her bomber jacket. We did find that there was blood and a tire impression on Karen’s coat. We do not know as of yet whether the collected DNA that [...]

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We started off today by thanking DCC’s collaborators and webmaster for their time, for sharing their knowledge, and for for still caring for decade old cases. The first case we discussed was the Holly Bobo case. Joe has an excellent post on his blog about her case and of course, the case can be found in the [...]

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