Today, detectives in the Saginaw Police Department’s Cold Case Unit packed up their things. The news they hoped would not come had arrived. Their federal grant funding will not be renewed. “It’s not that I’m losing my job. The hard part is that we didn’t get to fulfill what we wanted to,” says Det. Roy Walton, who [...]
Tags: Michigan, Unsolved Homicide, VictimThe documents that were obtained by the Detroit Free Press say that police investigators believe that Tamara Greene was killed in a drug dispute. Those documents are now sealed. The Free Press reports that the documents say that Greene was killed because of the feud between Darrett King and Eric Mitchell. Mitchell was a passenger in Greene’s car when she [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Ballistics, Crime Scene, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Gun Fire, Identification, Investigations Division, Michigan, Police, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesAttorneys for the city of Detroit say the 2003 slaying of stripper Tamara Greene resulted from a drug war and was not connected to a rumored wild party involving ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the Manoogian Mansion. The Detroit Free Press reports Thursday that the city claims in a federal court filing that Greene was shot [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Ballistics, Crime Scene, Detroit, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Gun Fire, Identification, Investigations Division, Michigan, Police, Unsolved Homicide, VictimDarrell Kastel has accepted a plea bargain in the 1979 murder of Mr. Julius Schnoll as I wrote in my previous post. I did not have further details then. I know learned that on August 30, 2010, Kastel was sentenced to 10-15 years for 2nd degree murder as part of a plea deal. He was credited [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Ballistics, Crime Scene, Evidence, Forensics, Gun Fire, Identification, Investigations Division, Michigan, Police, Unsolved Homicide, VictimDarrell Kastel, facing a first-degree murder charge, entered a plea this morning, bringing relief to the people who were present during the 1979 shooting of a supermarket supervisor in Farmington, MI. Kastel, 56, pleaded no contest to an added charge of second-degree murder as part of a plea agreement. The first-degree felony murder charge against him [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Ballistics, Crime Scene, Cruelty, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Gun Fire, Identification, Investigations Division, Julius Schnoll, Michigan, Police, Prisons, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesVidocq learned that the trial is set for August 8th, 2010. Darrell Kastel was scheduled to have a pretrial hearing at the end of April in front of Oakland Circuit Judge Rae Lee Chabot, but the hearing was adjourned to Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Kastel is charged with felony murder in the Jan. 27, 1979 shooting [...]
Tags: Ballistics, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Cruelty, Evidence, Forensics, Gun Fire, Identification, Investigations Division, Michigan, Police, Unsolved Homicide, VictimDetroit, Michigan: Her stage name was Strawberry and the rumour goes that she danced for the wrong people at a party at the mayor’s mansion and was executed because she knew too much. The case went cold but when the Mayor got into trouble, Greene’s case came resurfaced. A former homicide investigator claims that he is convinced that the [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Ballistics, Crime Scene, Evidence, Forensics, Gun Fire, Identification, Michigan, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, Police, Tamara Greene, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesSworn testimony from Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in the Tamara Greene murder investigation will remain under court seal for the time being. Federal Judge Gerald Rosen ruled against the media’s request to unseal documents in the case, saying he wants to protect the ongoing investigation and the privacy of third parties. Rosen had previously [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Ballistics, Crime Scene, Evidence, Gun Fire, Identification, Investigations Division, Michigan, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, Police, Tamara Greene, Unsolved Homicide, VictimAttorney Norman Yatooma is dropping most of the defendants in the Tamara Greene lawsuit. Yatooma is dropping Christine Beatty, Ella Bully-Cummings, Cara Best, Harold Cureton and Craig Schwartz from the suit. He says the lawsuit now only includes former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and the city of Detroit. According to Yatooma, he dropped the defendants in [...]
Tags: Michigan, Tamara GreenA pretrial hearing for Darrell Lee Kastel, accused in the 1979 death of a Farmington supermarket supervisor Julius Schnoll, has been moved. Kastel, 56, was scheduled to have a pretrial hearing at the end of April in front of Oakland Circuit Judge Rae Lee Chabot, but the hearing was adjourned to Tuesday, June 8, 2010. [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Cruelty, Evidence, Forensics, Gun Fire, Identification, Investigations Division, Julius Schnoll, Michigan, Police, Unsolved Homicide, Victim
