Bernard Jackson goes on trial coming Monday for the rapes of three Kansas City women nearly three decades ago. Jackson was accused the rapes in the Waldo area that occurred in the 1980s. In February 2011, he was charged with 22 counts related to two of the five “modern” Waldo rape cases, for which he’d been [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missouri, Rape kits, Victim, Waldo Rapist, WitnessesAs you know, our #cclivechat on July 15, 2011, centers on the case of Elizabeth Short. Elizabeth (July 29, 1924 – January 15, 1947) was found savagely murdered and her body was left in plain view for anyone to see the grotesque mutilations that she was subjected to before she died. Over the years, many authors [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Black Dahlia, Book Reviews, California, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Elizabeth Short, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Rape kits, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesNew details emerged and people have been ruled out by DNA in the case of the “Manchester Building Female Skeleton.” We now have a facial reconstruction of the victim. She was most likely European but could have come from the Middle East or Indian sub-continents. She also had a number of fillings in her teeth [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Manchester, Missing Person, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Rape kits, UK, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesThe Hartford Courant reported what I had feared since last year: Richard Lapointe’s Habeas Petition was denied. “Superior Court Judge John J. Nazzaro, in a 51-page ruling issued late Friday, turned back arguments that prosecutors had withheld material evidence, that Lapointe’s trial and appellate lawyers were incompetent, and that new evidence proved Lapointe was innocent. [...]
Tags: Actual Innocence, Arson Detection, Autopsy, Bernice Martin, Connecticut, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Miscarriage of Justice, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Rape kits, Richard A. Lapointe, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses, Wrongful ConvictionsBernard Jackson’s trial is scheduled for July 18, 2011. The trial is expected to last two weeks. Jackson is accused of four rapes in the Waldo area that occurred in the 1980s. In February 2011, he was charged with 22 counts related to two of the five “modern” Waldo rape cases, for which he’d been considered [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missouri, Police, Rape kits, Victim, WitnessesJustice Ginsburg, writing for the majority, said prison inmates may use a federal civil rights law to seek DNA testing that was not performed before their conviction. Lower federal courts had dismissed Skinner’s claims at an early stage, although other federal judges have allowed similar lawsuits to go forward in other parts of the country. [...]
Tags: Capital Punishment, Crime Scene, Death Row, DNA, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Faulty Evidence, Forensics, Henry Skinner, Investigations Division, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Rape kits, Texas, Victim, Witnesses, Wrongful Convictions“Jackson County prosecutors today filed 22 charges against Bernard Jackson, a twice-convicted sex offender, in connection with the series of rapes that terrified women in the Waldo area a year ago. Prosecutors used DNA from a lotion bottle and a shirt to link Jackson, 53, to two of the five attacks that happened between September [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Investigations Division, Kansas City, Missouri, Police, Prisons, Rape kits, Victim, WitnessesIf you have been reading up on the 1975 Canadian cold case of Sharron Prior, you know that Joe Giacalone thinks that one person is responsible for Sharron’s murder. I think more people were involved. You can read up about this in the posts and comments where Sharron’s mother Yvonne explicitely asks us why we [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Canada, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, Rape kits, Sharron Prior, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesThe Los Angeles Times reports that the LAPD is catching up but cannot keep up. “The Los Angeles Police Department announced today that it has cleared a decades-old backlog of untested DNA evidence collected in rape and sexual assault cases, but acknowledged the department’s laboratory remains too small to keep pace with the influx of [...]
Tags: DNA, LAPD, Rape kitsSharron‘s case has been in the top five “best read posts” on DCC ever since it got posted in December 2010. Vidster could not be happier! The post has created some discussions per email with readers. They told me such interesting facts that I emailed them all and asked them whether I could use parts of their [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Canada, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, Rape kits, Sharron Prior, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses
