Someone has landed on DCC by searching for an answer to this question: “are newborn foot prints as made in the hospital reliable to identify an adult?” If I remember correctly, the answer hinges on a few factors: who well were the prints made e.g. the proper amount of ink as not to drown the [...]
Tags: baby footprints, Evidence, IdentificationMissing 411, a message from David Paulides from the CanAm Missing Project: “Several years ago I received information that people were missing from a national park. The informant stated that the staff was giving the disappearances little public exposure and almost no follow-up. This tip led down a path of 3+ years and 7000 hours of research into missing [...]
Tags: Canada, CanAm Missing Project, David Paulides, Evidence, Forensics, Missing Person, USA, VictimJOSEPH HALPERN DISAPPEARED INTO THIN AIR, Part 3 © by Silvia Pettem 2012 Joseph’s nephew had started his search for his uncle, Joseph Halpern, missing since 1933, by contacting the sheriffs’ offices in the four Colorado counties that border Rocky Mountain National Park. The nephew asked about unidentified remains that might be identifiable with DNA [...]
Tags: Illinois, Joseph Halpern, Missing Person, Silvia PettemJOSEPH HALPERN DISAPPEARED INTO THIN AIR, Part 2 © by Silvia Pettem 2012 For six days in August 1933, park authorities searched drainages and followed all possible trails for the missing 22-year-old hiker, Joseph Halpern. Authorities also checked the registers on Taylor and nearby peaks, but none showed Joseph’s signature––a customary procedure for climbers, once [...]
Tags: Illinois, Joseph Halpern, Missing Person, Silvia PettemJOSEPH HALPERN DISAPPEARED INTO THIN AIR, Part 1 © by Silvia Pettem 2012 In the summer of 1933, twenty-two-year-old Cook County, Illinois, resident Joseph Halpern was vacationing in Rocky Mountain National Park with his parents and Samuel Garrick, a college friend. The motorists had driven Joseph’s Ford sedan and had stopped in the Black Hills [...]
Tags: Illinois, Joseph Halpern, Missing Person, Silvia PettemForty-six years ago, Jim and Nancy Beaumont were confronted with a nightmare that has been ongoing ever since. Their beloved children, all three of their children, vanished without a trace. It broke their hearts, their hopes, and their marriage. Over the years, South Adelaide Police did investigate more leads. They checked into child serial rapist [...]
Tags: Austria, Beaumont Children, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, South Adelaide, Victim, WitnessesRockford 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 [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Illinois, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, Rockford, Unidentified, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesFrom 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 [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Evidence, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, the Netherlands, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Willeke Dost, WitnessesIn October 2007, retired policewoman Kathy Gilleran received a call from Vienna, Austria, informing her that her 34-year-old son, Aeryn, was missing. Kathy immediately flew overseas to aid in the search for Aeryn, but upon arriving in Vienna, she was shocked to learn that the local police had no interest in pursuing the case. Aeryn, a US Citizen, was [...]
Tags: Austria, Crime Scene, Evidence, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Victim, Vienna, WitnessesDarren Bruce is a married father of three and has been a police officer for seventeen years. “I am a Detective Sergeant who has taken on various roles and am soon to undertake a change to run a Serious Sexual Offences Investigation Team. Over the years I have worked on Child Abuse Investigation Units and Major Investigation [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Peter Tobin, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses
