Hat-tip to Clouseau who keeps an eye out for things Vidster missed! “The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday introduced its first mobile app: an iPhone application aimed at helping parents whose children go missing. With the Child ID app, a parent can store photos and information about their child such as height and [...]
Tags: apps for mobile phones, FBI, missing childrenDavid 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, VictimNew details emerged and people have been ruled out by DNA in the case of the “Manchester Building Female Skeleton.” We now have a facial reconstruction of the victim. She was most likely European but could have come from the Middle East or Indian sub-continents. She also had a number of fillings in her teeth [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Manchester, Missing Person, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Rape kits, UK, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesOne of the issues in the Laura Henderson-Ibach case has been Mac’s van. Did a live or death struggle take place here or not? As you have been able to read in our post, the van doubled as a temporary home to Jim Kerwin. Please take a look at these pictures. They were taken before [...]
Tags: Actual Innocence, Alaska, Crime Scene, Cruelty, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Kodiak, Laura Henderson-Ibach, Missing Person, Police, Prisons, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses, Wrongful Convictions“The lady in the Barrel” has been identified by DNA. Forensic scientists used DNA that was collected during the autopsy of Tracie De Ann Lutz. Tracie was killed in 1990. Her DNA was used to identify her slain twin sister Stacie Anderson. Stacie’s skeletal remains were found stuffed inside a barrel at her husband’s home in 2010. Her husband, Dennis Anderson, later [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, Prisons, Texas, Unsolved Homicide, VictimFrom the LASD on Nixle: On March 15, 2011, the LA County District Attorney’s Office filed murder charges against Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter for the 1985 murder of John Sohus(26). Gerhartsreiter, of German nationality, is also known as Christopher Chichester or Clark Rockefeller. “In February of 1985, John (26) and Linda Sohus (28) disappeared from their home in the 1900 [...]
Tags: Autopsy, California, Crime Scene, DNA, Evidence, FBI, Forensics, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, Prisons, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesOne of the cases featured on Nancy Grace tonight is the 1998 disappearance of Kimberly Arrington, Montgomery, Alabama. The photograph below shows computerized age progression into adulthood. “Kimberly, as her father describes as “a good girl”, was last seen leaving her family’s home around 5pm on October 30, 1998. It was just a few blocks to [...]
Tags: Alabama, Missing Person, Police, VictimThe Girl Behind the Blue Eyes – Who Was Elizabeth Pfeifer? I was asked by Vidocq to introduce my sister, Elizabeth Pfeifer. Although the young woman I knew would be willing to come forward and speak for herself, she can’t. You won’t hear from Elizabeth because she’s been missing since April 12, 1986. Elizabeth was [...]
Tags: DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, Texas, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesElizabeth’s life has been troubled from the start. Shortly after she was born on December 10, 1965, she was given up for adoption. The Pfeifer family had already adopted Laura, also from birth. As you can immediately tell, we have a DNA problem here. If we ever find items that may hold biological materials that [...]
Tags: DNA, Evidence, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, Texas, Victim, WitnessesJoe and I met Elizabeth’s sister, Laura Pfeifer Townshend on Twitter during our #CClivechat on March 3rd, 2011, and have offered to take a look at her sister’s case. At first sight, just from reading Laura’s blog about Elizabeth, it seems to be the case of a young lady gone missing after a night of serious partying. But, that [...]
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