From the Pitch: “Bernard Jackson‘s sentencing is scheduled for September 30, 9 a.m.” Jackson could be sentenced to 30 years in prison. Jackson is also charged with rapes in the same area where five rapes occurred between September 2009 and February 2010. To be continued …
Tags: Crime Labs, Crime Scene, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missouri, Police, Rape kits, Victim, Waldo RapistAs announced earlier, we will have a treat for you on September 16 because Ken Lang will join us for our cold case live chat on Twitter. To give you an example of Ken’s work and of course, to help seek more media attention for this unsolved cold case, Ken sent me these photographs. They [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Crime Labs, Forensics, Identification, Unsolved Homicide, VictimAccording to the website of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Henry Skinner is set to be executed Nov. 9, 2011. In March of this year, the justices ruled that Skinner had the right to sue a Texas district attorney under a federal civil rights law for refusing to allow him access to evidence for [...]
Tags: Capital Punishment, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Cruelty, Death Row, DNA, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Finger Printing, Forensics, Henry Skinner, Identification, Investigations Division, Miscarriage of Justice, Police, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Rape kits, Texas, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses, Wrongful ConvictionsReview of Zeigler Project During their final spring semester twenty five (25) undergraduate and five (5) graduate students from Penn State University (PSU) reviewed documents pertaining to the trial and conviction of William Thomas Zeigler. Mr. Zeigler was convicted in 1976 of murdering his wife Eunice Zeigler, his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Perry and Virginia Edwards, [...]
Tags: Actual Innocence, Autopsy, Ballistics, Capital Punishment, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Death Row, DNA, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, FBI, Finger Printing, Florida, Forensics, Gun Fire, Identification, Investigations Division, Miscarriage of Justice, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Prisons, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, William Thomas Zeigler, Witnesses, Wrongful ConvictionsBernard Jackson was found guilty of 18 total counts of rape, sodomy, and robbery in the cases of four women dating back to 1983 and 1984. The prosecution built their case on DNA. Most victims were never able to give a 100% identification of their attacker due to the fact that they were blindfolded. Fingerprints left [...]
Tags: Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Rape kits, VictimIn the magazine “North & South,” Chris Birt makes a strong case for an in-depth review of Len and Norma Thomas Demler’s involvement in the case. Note that Norma is not related to Arthur Allan Thomas! Strong ties have existed between the Demler and Thomas family for quite some time. The siblings in the family married [...]
Tags: Actual Innocence, arthur allen thomas, Autopsy, Ballistics, Book Reviews, Capital Punishment, Chris Birt, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Cruelty, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Gun Fire, Identification, Investigations Division, Jeanette and Harvey Crewe, Len Demler, Miscarriage of Justice, New Zealand, Police, Prisons, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Rochelle Crewe, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses, Wrongful ConvictionsI’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of Here! by Sue Carney Imagine having an eclectic group of scientists at your disposal to ask any question you like. This is exactly what the ‘I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of Here’ project offers to approximately 8000 UK school children for two weeks, commencing Monday 13 June [...]
Tags: Crime Labs, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Sue Carney, UKA cold case chat filled with different topics as you can read below. We discussed that lifting prints from eye balls was a not much researched area as the need is/was probably never there. Lifting prints from people with very soft skin can cause problems so Richard Case commented on that as well. We also [...]
Tags: Arson Detection, Autopsy, Crime Labs, DNA, Finger Printing, ForensicsDNA: What Else Can We Do With It? by Sue Carney In my previous DNA posts on DCC and in Cold Case Live Chats (#CClivechat), a few other DNA techniques have often been mentioned. It seems appropriate therefore, to provide a little detail on these techniques: How they work and when best to use them. [...]
Tags: Crime Labs, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Forensics, IdentificationFrank Bender, forensic artist/sculptor, is battling lung cancer. He spent a lifetime helping authorities solving crimes by contouring the faces of murder victims and the unidentified. He primarily works in clay and then casts his pieces into plaster and paints them, but he has also aged fugitives using pastels. His fine art work stems from his [...]
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