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Jon Benet Ramsey DNA Rules Out Parents!
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes by Michael Newton
In Paris, Illinois, Karen Spesard, 24, was an office assistant at a factory when she married Dyke Rhoads a landscaper in 1986. Dyke and Karen Rhoads were found dead July 6, 1986, after an early morning fire engulfed their home. The couple was stabbed over 50 times murdered prior to the fire. Two men were convicted of the crime: Herb Whitlock, 41, a part-time construction worker and drug dealer, and Randy Steidl, 35, also worked in construction. Prosecutors said the motive was a drug deal gone bad. Both men said they were innocent. In 1999, a journalism professor, David Protess of Northwestern University, gave his students the Rhoads murder as a class project to re-investigate. Who did kill Wendy Sewell? -- The former newspaper editor who campaigned for the release of Stephen Downing after he was wrongly jailed for 27 years for the murder of Wendy Sewell, says he has "a very good idea" who the real killer was. In Denial of Murder -- Over 30 years Wendy Sewell, typist was was savagely attacked in a graveyard. She died in a hospital several days later. Reinvestigation.
Molly Bish, 16, was a high school junior who just started a summer job as a lifeguard. She disappeared in the town of Warren, Mass. Slaughter Night in Moscow by John Philpin -- Between dusk on July 21, and dawn, July 22, four women were murdered on the streets of Moscow. Does this city of ten million, capitol of the Russian Federation, have a serial killer preying on its women? Or, as the police suggest, are two killers insufficient to accommodateall the victims who, they say, have little in common. Sharon Marshall, a gifted student in Georgia in the 1980's lived alone with her father, Warren. Only her name wasn't Sharon and Warren wasn't her father. He was a murderous felon named Franklin Delano Floyd who kidnapped Sharon when she was a toddler and raised her as his daughter. Who was she? June 23, 1996, the remains of a petite blonde. Karina Holmer, 20, a Swedish nanny from Dover, MA., were found in a dumpster. A man rummaging through trash found her strangled torso cut in two, and washed in a garbage bag. Her lower half was not found in. The Boston Police Homicide Unit places the her near that area between 3:30 am and 4:00 am on the June 22nd in an alley outside Zanzibar, a nightspot near Boston Common, where she was with friends.
Jennifer Servo, a 22-year-old newscaster was bludgeoned to death in her Abilene, Texas apartment September 2002. Joyce Chiang -- Joyce worked for California Congressman Howard Berman while attending law school in the evenings at the Georgetown University Law Center. Joyce was student body president at Smith College and a member of the Board of Trustees of Georgetown Law School. After graduating, she worked for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. At the age of twenty-eight, Joyce disappeared on the night of January 9th, 1999. Joyce was last seen earlier in the evening when a friend dropped her off at Starbucks. She planned to walk four blocks home. She never made it. Her body was discovered several months later in the Potomac River. The Joyce Chiang Memorial Scholarship was established by the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, with the support of Joyce's family. Psychics Helping Police Solve Crimes Several law enforcement agencies and the loved ones of 90 murder victims from New Mexico are reaching out for your help. These cases are unsolved or are in need additional information to make arrests. SF Bay Area Missing Person Timeline Also see: Missing Persons Also see: Homicide for murder cases Digna Ochoa was found on October 19, 2001, in her office, dead with 2 bullet wounds shot at point blank range. An anonymous note threatened human rights activists. Ochoa, a former nun defended poor farmers and accused guerrilleros. As a teenager, she was tortured by Veracruz police in for her political activities, the target of death threats, and kidnapped. They are after me but I will not live in fear. On the morning of July 16, 1998, Barry Scott Brewster, 26, was found dead. His nude, brutally beaten body was under a bridge in Albuquerque, NM. There are a lot of unanswered questions surrounding the Julie Anne Wills slaying. Why didn't her dog bark that night? Why didn't anyone hear her? Billie Jean Phillips, 35, had connections to drug dealers and among the town's most prominent citizens. She died Sept. 2, 1994, beaten and strangled in her bedroom. The instant suspect was Howard "Rusty" Cain Jr., the county's lead prosecutor, who had a longtime affair with her. Grand jury. September 26, 2003 jurors acquitted Clint Eugene Phillips, 27, of capital murder in the 1994 slaying. Keith, 24, and Patrice, 28 Harrington were murdered in their bed on August 19, 1980, after 11:05 p.m. in the gated community of Niguel Shores, Laguna Niguel, CA. On August 21, at 6:30, Keith's father, Roger Harrington, discovered their bodies bound with ligatures. Patti was sexually assaulted. They were bludgeoned to death. Marjorie West disappeared on Mother's Day 1938 without a trace. Today the mystery continues with a nationwide search for the woman who was stolen and possibly taken into the southern or southwestern US.
Kari & Associates
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Blood Justice In 1991, flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel near Detroit. The next morning she was found gagged, raped, and tortured-her throat slit with such rage that she was nearly decapitated. Faces Of Evil -- Every day, Lois Gibson is able to put power, control and a sense of justice back into the hands of victims of violent crime, heinous rapes, kidnappings and murders. Gibson, herself the victim of a violent rape, uses her skills to coax from the memories of victims the most intimate details possible and, with the stroke of a pencil, reconstructs the faces of their tormentors. These eerily accurate portraits have been directly responsible for the capture of over 700 vicious criminals for which her skills are noted in the Guinness Book of Records. Faces of Evil is Gibson's riveting story of how she became the world's most successful forensic artist, interwoven with her thirteen most suspense-filled cases. Follow the nine-year-old girl who sees and helps catch her mother's killer, the pregnant blind woman who identifies and aids in the capture of her rapist and the hero cop whose deathbed description leads police to his killer. Lois Gibson is a twenty-two-year veteran forensic artist with the Houston, Texas police department and affiliated with the FBI and U.S. Marshall's Service. Cracking Cases: The Science of Solving Crimes by Henry C. Lee, Thomas W. O'Neil, and Charles D. Gill- - Includes the OJ Simpson case, where Dr. Lee's scrutiny of blood evidence revealed Los Angeles Police Department missed blood drops on Nicole Simpson's back, a second footprint of a possible assailant, and the physical unlikelihood Simpson climbed a fence. The "Wood chipper murder" a pilot killed his wife, then ground up her body. Ed Sherman an English professor attempted to cover up the time of his wife's death by turning up the air-conditioning and claiming he was away sailing. In the Mathison murder, a seasoned Hawaiian police sergeant ran over his wife after a quarrel. Police sergeant MacArthur staged his wife's suicide. Dr. Lee gained respect through his testimony in the OJ Simpson trial. The World's Most Mysterious Murders by Lionel Fanthrope, Patricia Fanthorpe The murders of Sir Harry Oakes in 1943, one of the richest men in Canada, and Christine Demeter, found dead in a blood-soaked garage in Mississauga in 1973 -- remain unsolved. In fact, history is full of unsolved murders. Who killed King William Rufus, Edward II, and the Princes in the Tower? Who was Jack the Ripper? Was James Hanratty really guilty of killing Michael Gregson? These mysteries and more are contained in The World's Most Mysterious Murders. Killers on the Loose: Unsolved Cases of Serial Murder by Mendoza Antonio -- Authorities estimate that there are 35 - 50 serial killers on the loose in the US - with new reports of suspected serial killers constantly surfacing all over the globe. According to an FBI Behavioral Unit study, serial killing has climbed to an almost 'epidemic proportion'. This is the first look at serial killers at large, from one of the world's foremost authorities. Baffling Murder Mysteries: Famous Unsolved Homicides by Marilyn Morgan A collection of murders involving popular celebrities, famous investigators, or serial killers. Morgan provides commentaries as to why these crimes were committed and how the perpetrators got away with it -- famous homicide cases involving Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa, George "Superman" Reeves, and Bob "Hogan's Heroes" Crane. City Confidential - Soho: The Art Of Murder September 8, 1985, Ana Mendieta plunged to her death from the 34th floor apartment she shared with her famous husband in Soho. Ana and her husband, sculptor Carl Andre, were fixtures in the hip scene. But when Ana discovered that Carl having affairs, they exploded into a heated argument. Carl's nose and arm were scratched enough to bleed, and a doorman on the street below heard a woman screaming "No, no, no, no, don't." Seconds later, Ana's body crashed onto the roof of a delicatessen. From Carl's call to 911 to the clever legal strategy that exonerated him despite circumstantial evidence suggesting murder. Essentials of Forensic Psychological Assessment Great Unsolved Crimes by A. J. Cronin
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