Defrosting Cold Cases

From 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, Witnesses

One 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, Victim

The 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, Witnesses

Elizabeth’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, Witnesses

Joe 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 [...]

Tags: Missing Person, Police, Texas, Victim, Witnesses

The Kentucky State Police is actively pursuing new ways to get answers in their unsolved cases. They have distributed 400 card decks to inmates in hopes to get tips about some of their cases featured on the card decks. If you like to see the card deck, click here. From the Evansville Courier and Press: “The [...]

Tags: Crime Scene, Evidence, Kentucky, Missing Persons, Police, Unidentified, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses

The Investigation Discovery Channel launches the Injustice Files this coming February 18, 2011. A MUST SEE! “In February 2007, the FBI officially launched a new investigative effort called the Civil Rights-Era Cold Case Initiative, which was tasked with taking a fresh look at racially-motivated homicide investigations that occurred prior to 1970. Since then, over 100 [...]

Tags: Help the Cops, unsolved homicides

On January 23, 1999, Teekah(2) went bowling with her mother, family and friends at the New Frontier Lanes on South Center Street, Tacoma, Washington, at about 10:30 p.m. They had rented lanes 7 and 8 in the 32-lane bowling complex. The mother kept an eye on Teekah except for one moment to watch her brother bowl. When she [...]

Tags: Crime Scene, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, Teekah Lewis, Victim, Witnesses

On Feb 3, 2001, a mother and her daughter vanished into thin air. Police fear that the ladies are dead, murdered at the hands of people who are still walking around freely in the small town of West Chesterfield, NH. FromWMUR: “The weekend they disappeared, police said, Tina Sinclair had an argument with her live-in  [...]

Tags: Forensics, Identification, Missing Person, New Hampshire, Police, Tina and Bethany Sinclair, Victim

This case is as mind-boggling as it gets. I call it a disappearance because Laura’s body has never been found. No forensic evidence points to a crime scene. Yet, two men are serving 99 years in prison. They have been convicted of kidnapping and first degree murder in Laura’s case. It was known that Laura [...]

Tags: Alaska, Crime Scene, DNA, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Miscarriage of Justice, Missing Person, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Prisons, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses, Wrongful Convictions