Defrosting Cold Cases

Warning: crime scene photographs! In the autumn of 1979, press reports emerged that Boulin had abused his position to gain favourable terms for a series of property deals on the French Riviera. Boulin’s family believes that Robert, tipped in 1979 as a future PM before he was engulfed by that property scandal, did not commit suicide to avoid the investigation. [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, DNA, drowning, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, France, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses

The Lost King of France by Deborah Cadbury This book combines Vidocq’s passion for historical mysteries, cold cases, and forensics! My interest was peaked after watching the movie “the Scarlet Pimpernel” with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour. The book by Baroness Emmuska Orczy was tedious and less amusing than the movie. Vidocq’s attraction to “the Scarlet Pimpernel” is easily [...]

Tags: Anastasia Romanov, Anthony Andrews, Austria, Book Reviews, Burial, Child Abuse, Cruelty, Deborah Cadbury, DNA, Execution, Forensics, France, Guillotine, Habsburg, Heart, Historical Mystery, Imposters, King, Louis-Charles, Marie-Therese, Maternal Line, Mitochondrial DNA, Monarchy, Neglect, Prince, Princess, Public Execution, Queen, Restoration, Revolution, Robespierre, Royalist, Saint-Denis, Scarlet Pimpernel, Sink Me, the Dauphin, the Tower, Vidocq