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Ken B
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Nov 02, 2022 02:30PM
How about a thread for interesting true crime or cold cases?
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FBI identifies woman found dead nearly 50 years ago using DNA, genealogyhttps://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/us/fbi...
Ken B wrote: "FBI identifies woman found dead nearly 50 years ago using DNA, genealogyhttps://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/us/fbi..."
Good idea for a topic!
This is big local news. The case was before my time but from the way my dad talks about it, her death was a big deal at the time. Now I think they are looking for more information on the man she was married to at the time of her death who is also deceased.
DNA breakthrough leads to identity of Philadelphia's 'Boy in the Box' in cold case murder that has baffled investigators since 1957https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
Ken B wrote: "DNA breakthrough leads to identity of Philadelphia's 'Boy in the Box' in cold case murder that has baffled investigators since 1957https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti......"
Wow, that's incredible.
Teenage boy, 15, found dead on Long Beach street in 1978 is identifiedhttps://mol.im/a/11546501 via https://dailym.ai/android
Washington State criminology graduate student, 28, is arrested by SWAT team at 3am in Pocono Mountains for stabbing deaths of four Idaho college students in Novemberhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
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11 years later, Opelika Baby Jane Doe identified; father, stepmother chargedhttps://www.wsfa.com/2023/01/19/11-ye...
Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison a half-century after grisly killingshttps://apnews.com/article/manson-fol...
Ken B wrote: "Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison a half-century after grisly killingshttps://apnews.com/article/manson-fol......"
I am actually a bit surprised. I assumed she was never going to get out.
Erin wrote: "Ken B wrote: "Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison a half-century after grisly killingshttps://apnews.com/article/manson-fol......"
That was my assumption as well.
Ken B wrote: "Erin wrote: "Ken B wrote: "Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison a half-century after grisly killingshttps://apnews.com/article/manson-fol......"
So I looked up how she got out, just copied this from her wikipedia page:
On November 9, 2021, Van Houten was recommended for parole by a parole board.[61] On March 29, 2022, Governor Newsom overruled the parole board's recommendation.[62]
Her request for review was rejected by the California Supreme Court on February 9, 2022.[63]
On May 30, 2023, a California Court of Appeal in Los Angeles set aside Governor Newsom's denial of Van Houten's parole, thus becoming the first Manson family member to have a Court rule in her favor for a parole recommendation.[64] On July 7, 2023, Governor Newsom announced that he would not appeal the California Supreme Court to block her parole, paving the way for her release.[65] Van Houten was released on parole on July 11, 2023.[4]
Link to her page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_...
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https://people.com/crime/arrest-made-...
Alan wrote: "Suspect Arrested, Identified in 'Long Island Serial Killer' Case: Sourcehttps://people.com/crime/arrest-made-..."
Just watching about this on news this morning
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...
Richard wrote: "Alan wrote: "Suspect Arrested, Identified in 'Long Island Serial Killer' Case: Sourcehttps://people.com/crime/arrest-made-..."
Just watching about this on news t..."
Same here
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Indiana teacher with 'kill list' of students, staff sentenced to 2½ years on probation
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/i...
Alan wrote: "Well, here's a new spin:Indiana teacher with 'kill list' of students, staff sentenced to 2½ years on probation
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/i......"
There are so many red flags, in that article, that I don't know where to begin.
Erin wrote: "Alan wrote: "Well, here's a new spin:Indiana teacher with 'kill list' of students, staff sentenced to 2½ years on probation
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/i......"
The other side of the "good teacher" coin
Investigators share new photo of Houston Candy Man’s murder victim to help identify himhttps://www.click2houston.com/news/lo...
Dean Corll has always been interesting to me as I was a kid growing up in Houston when all of this was going on.
Investigators search BTK Dennis Rader's former Kansas property amid unsolved missing persons, murder caseshttps://www.foxnews.com/us/investigat...
Girl's killer identified more than 50 years after she was abducted in Georgiahttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/cold-cas...
I love the cases being solved by familial DNA. But, so many times the suspects have escaped justice by dying before the truth was known.
Ken B wrote: "Investigators search BTK Dennis Rader's former Kansas property amid unsolved missing persons, murder caseshttps://www.foxnews.com/us/investigat......"
What always gets me about Dennis Rader is he literally could have gotten away with all the murders if he didn't have the itch to brag about it and write letters to the police like an idiot.
I am genuinely a big fan of true crime to include books, TV and movies. I enjoy the fabled old pioneers of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, the father of profiling serial killers Robert Ressler, Douglas, Hazelwood. Their books are excellent, certainly recounting their face time interviewing Ed Kemper and other infamous serial killers. Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule is my favorite true crime novel and the movie adaptation starring Farrah Fawcett is simply sensational.
Pisces51 wrote: "I am genuinely a big fan of true crime to include books, TV and movies. I enjoy the fabled old pioneers of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, the father of profiling serial killers Robert Ressler, ..."You ever watch Mindhunter?
Justin wrote: "Ken B wrote: "Investigators search BTK Dennis Rader's former Kansas property amid unsolved missing persons, murder caseshttps://www.foxnews.com/us/investigat......"
Doesn't it seem like some killers get caught after doing the dumbest things?
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https://abcnews.go.com/International/...
Texas EquuSearch founder wants tight supervision kept on man considered suspect in ‘Killing Fields’ murdershttps://www.click2houston.com/news/in...
Ken B wrote: "Texas EquuSearch founder wants tight supervision kept on man considered suspect in ‘Killing Fields’ murdershttps://www.click2houston.com/news/in......"
I actually remember reading about this case. The guy is super creepy and the details of the crime he was convicted for certainly leads one to believe that he is a good suspect for the other unsolved murders.
On a side note, does anyone else find it difficult to take something called the "Super Intensive Supervision Program (SISP)" seriously? Sounds like a department that would appear in a children's book.
Kelly wrote: "On a side note, does anyone else find it difficult to take something called the "Super Intensive Supervision Program (SISP)" seriously? Sounds like a department that would appear in a children's book...."Sounds like the "double secret probation" in Animal House.
Ken B wrote: "Kelly wrote: "On a side note, does anyone else find it difficult to take something called the "Super Intensive Supervision Program (SISP)" seriously? Sounds like a department that would appear in a..."Ken B wrote: "Kelly wrote: "On a side note, does anyone else find it difficult to take something called the "Super Intensive Supervision Program (SISP)" seriously? Sounds like a department that would appear in a..."
Exactly!! lol
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe...
Alan wrote: "Doppelganger murder: German woman goes on trial accused of killing lookalikehttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe......"
She (and her partner) sound vicious but perhaps are not the sharpest tools in the shed. I can't believe that she went out to eat in a pizzeria a day after she wanted people to believe that her body had been found. 🤷
What ever happened to Mary Jane? Shelby detective solves 1945 cold case mysteryhttps://www.cleveland19.com/2024/02/1...
No crime but interesting.
Car found in North Carolina creek with human remains may hold answers to 1982 cold casehttps://www.foxnews.com/us/car-found-...
Cold Case
If anyone has seen the Disappearance of Crystal Rogers docuseries (2018)....you may find this news (finally!) interesting and good to know. Three men will finally stand trial for her murder. Hopefully this will lead to solving her sweet father's murder also: https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/3-men-c...
Ken B wrote: "What ever happened to Mary Jane? Shelby detective solves 1945 cold case mysteryhttps://www.cleveland19.com/2024/02/1...
No crime but interesting."
Very. Genetic genealogy is fascinating!
It's helped solve so many cold cases over the last several years: BTK, Golden State Killer, Grim Sleeper, Happy Face... and hundreds more.
California woman suspects relative was a serial killer after uncovering family secretshttps://www.foxnews.com/us/california...
Slender Man stabber who almost killed classmate when she was 12 is too dangerous to free from mental hospital, psychologists tell courthttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
'Boy in the attic's' mom's harrowing final words before she died of a broken heart are revealed - as body of her 12-year-old is finally found four years after he went missinghttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
https://charleyproject.org/case/jayle...
Ken B wrote: "'Boy in the attic's' mom's harrowing final words before she died of a broken heart are revealed - as body of her 12-year-old is finally found four years after he went missinghttps://www.dailymail..."
That's awful
Decades-Old Hell’s Kitchen Mystery Unraveled: Patricia McGlone Identified as ‘Midtown Jane Doe’https://w42st.com/post/hells-kitchen-...
love true crime and cold cases. if anyone has any book recommendations, especially anything on kindle unlimited, name them all!
Woman claims to be missing person Cherrie Mahan, eight-year-old Pennsylvania girl who vanished from bus stop in 1985https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
https://charleyproject.org/case/cherr...
This is a pretty popular one but I really enjoyed the audiobook about the Golden State Killer, especially since he ended up getting caught right after the book came out I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
FBI hunting 500 serial killer truckers loose on America's roads: Their favorite highway for finding victims revealed - and inside their mobile 'rape and torture chambers'https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
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There was a true crime mini series on A&E a few years back where the documentarians were investigating one series of killings, and one of their interviewees was a long haul trucker who told them there was a whole network of killers out there who get their victims off the highways. Sadly, the network never renewed the show for another season, 'cause the filmmakers sounded like they were going to expand their search. Though there were a couple of times the filmmakers were themselves shwoing up on suspects' porches unannounced, so it's also possible they were eventually captured and murdered by an actual killer.....
Notorious Santa Cruz serial killer Ed Kemper denied parole in latest hearinghttps://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/07/...
