Amber Nicklas has learned her true name and is being given therapy to cope with the trauma of leaving the only family she remembers, an investigator said Monday. Amber was placed with an undisclosed California foster family until authorities can determine where she finally will live, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Capt. Patrick Maxwell said. He had no immediate [...]
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More details are now available in the missing person case of Amber Rose Nicklas, the little girl who was abducted from California when she was just one year old and who resurfaced in Phoenix, AZ. The family who raised her as their own are now fighting for legal custody. They claim that they had no idea that the baby [...]
Amber remains in protective custody in Los Angeles and it was not clear if she will be reunited with her foster parents. Authorities have not released any names or filed any charges but continue to investigate. “This girl was taken away from the only parents and family that she knows yesterday,” said Phoenix police Sgt. [...]
Amber Nicklas, a California girl who had been missing for almost seven years was found last Wednesday by police in Phoenix, Arizona, authorities said. The girl had just turned a year old when she was abducted in September 2003. She had been in the care of foster parents in Norwalk, California, when she was snatched [...]
Arrest in 1993 murders of sailors Keith Combs and Eugene Ellis
Posted in Cold Cases in the News, Forensics, Solved, Unsolved Homicides
SAN DIEGO – Authorities say DNA evidence led to an arrest in the 1993 killings of two enlisted sailors whose bodies were found in a field in San Diego County. Leopoldo Castro Chavez II was arrested last Wednesday on suspicion of gunning down the two men in an Otay Mesa field nearly 17 years ago. [...]
New Cold Case Units Cracks 1989 Hina Family Murders
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On Wednesday, New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney announced that David McLeod has been arrested in West Sacramento, California, on four counts of second-degree murder for “recklessly causing the death of the Hina family under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to the value of human life,” according to a written statement from the attorney general’s office. [...]
The reduction in overtime expenses for fingerprint specialists has delayed the collection of evidence in crimes such as burglaries by as much as a week or more. Victims are frustrated by the time lag. Budget cuts ordered by Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca have undermined his agency’s ability to collect and analyze fingerprint evidence, [...]
Update Roy Allan Melanson
Posted in Cold Cases in the News, Help the Cops!, Solved, Unsolved Homicides
Colorado prison inmate Roy Allan Melanson might never stand trial for the murders that his DNA says he committed in Louisiana and California decades ago. He will die in a Bent County prison for a 1974 murder that took nearly 20 years to solve, but new evidence links him to at least two other cold [...]
Nearly two months after they were ordered to surrender their Tasers, BART police will be issued the controversial weapons again after being re-trained on the weapon and adapting new protocol. Acting BART Police Chief Daschel Butler said that pending training, the officers would be given Tasers sometime later this week. Training includes watching a 15-minute DVD [...]
Help the LAPD!
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The Los Angeles Police Department is searching for a man who allegedly killed one co-worker and injured two others with a samurai-style sword. The incident occurred about 10:20 p.m. at a video distribution business on Hayvenhurst Avenue and Saticoy Street in Van Nuys, LAPD officials said. The victims were rushed to a local hospital, where [...]