Defrosting Cold Cases

The Fox family of Illinois finally has some closure after an imprisoned sex offender was charged with the 2004 murder of 3-year-old Riley Fox, a crime that Riley’s father originally confessed to committing. It’s been a terrible ordeal for the family because even with DNA clearing Kevin in 2005, many people persisted in the belief [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Child Abuse, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, False Confessions, Forensics, Identification, Illinois, Investigations Division, Police, Rape kits, Recording Interrogations, Riley Fox, Unsolved Homicide, Victim

An appeals court Wednesday agreed with a federal jury’s 2007 finding that Will County Police framed Kevin Fox for the rape and murder of his 3-year-old daughter Riley, but reduced the damages awarded to Fox and his wife from $12.2 million to $8 million. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals chastised the investigators on the [...]

Tags: Actual Innocence, Autopsy, Child Abuse, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Expert Testimony, False Confessions, FBI, Forensics, Illinois, Investigations Division, Miscarriage of Justice, Police, Rape kits, Victim, Videotaping Murder Suspect's Interrogations, Wrongful Convictions