Defrosting Cold Cases

  Rockford 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, Witnesses

Darren 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

On Oct. 2, 1979, the remains of a child were found in a shallow grave on the side of Glendora Mountain Road, San Dimas, California. This child, a boy, was very young. There are several age ranges given. One states he was between 3-8 years old and another places him between 4-6 years old.  According [...]

Tags: Autopsy, California, Crime Scene, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, Unsolved Homicide, Victim

Not sure why I did not post this before but yes, “Adam” has been identified! “The five-year-old’s identity has remained a mystery after he was smuggled into Britain and murdered in a voodoo-style ritual killing. He was drugged with a ‘black-magic’ potion and sacrificed before being thrown into the Thames, where his torso washed up next [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Child Abuse, Crime Scene, Cruelty, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, Victim

We have a tentative identification on Adam, the name given to the boy’s torso found in the Thames, UK. “A boy of six whose torso was found mutilated in the Thames has been identified  ten years later. The tragic lad has been named as Ikpomwosa, from Nigeria, and a picture of  him  was released. Detectives believe [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Child Abuse, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses

“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, Victim

Remember the Manchester Building Female Skeleton I posted about? Police is still trying to find out who the lady was. “Workmen unearthed a skeleton while digging up the former car park on land between Angel Street, Dantzic Street and Miller Street – an area known as Angel Meadow. Police believed the remains could have been [...]

Tags: DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Manchester, Missing Person, UK, Unidentified, Victim

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

The Horry County Police Department in South Carolina needs your help. Lt. Jamie Debari, of the Horry County Police Department, said officers responded to the 6700 block of Norton Road in the Green Sea area for a report of a body found on the side of the road. A male victim was found dead from an [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Ballistics, Crime Scene, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Gun Fire, Horry County John Doe Jan 2011, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Partial Finger Printing, Police, South Carolina, Unsolved Homicide, Victim