Unsolved homicides that haunt me…
Posted in Cold Cases in the News, Forensics, Unidentified
In 2002, a woman of West African origin was arrested in Glasgow in connection with the murder of a young boy whose torso was found in the Thames in London. The child’s torso, clad only in a pair of orange shorts, was spotted floating in the Thames near Tower Bridge on 21 September, 2001. It had [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Missing Persons, Unidentified, Unsolved Homicides
NamUS, a new online database, promises to crack some of the nation’s 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it. The clearinghouse, dubbed NamUs (Name Us), offers a quick way to check whether a missing loved one might be among the 40,000 sets [...]
Posted in Cold Cases in the News, Forensics, Miscarriages of Justice, Unidentified, Unsolved Homicides
The Washington Monthly has an excellent article by Michael Bobelian about issues related to DNA that are unknown to many and kept under wraps by few. However, the few do it very well. This article is about the statistical chance that a DNA match is found when running a sample in a cold case through DNA [...]
Posted in Forensics, Help the Cops!, Unidentified, Unsolved Homicides
Police have released photos of four pieces of jewelry that may help detectives identify the skulls of a man and a woman found in a burned-out mountain ravine of the Angeles National Forest. The pictures show three rings, one with small ruby stones, one with emerald-green stones, and one with black stones, each with interlocking white [...]