Then in 2003, David Maxwell, Diane’s brother, reopened the case and scanned the prints in IAFIS as well as personally matching the prints which was confirmed to be James Ray Davis. #3 WHO: Victim, James “RIchard” Layne; Suspect, Samuel Reeves WHAT: Layne himself hadn’t checked in to the motel, so he went to the motel to see who had checked into his room. Then the body of Layne was found along with very little usable evidence other than a few partial prints on beer cans were found in the motel room. WHEN: February 20, 1989 WHERE: Chattanooga, TN WHY: Theft went wrong
Tim Bosma Case Tim Bosma was a church going, fun, and caring a son to Mary and Hank Bosma, a husband to Sharlene Bosma, and a father to a five-year- old daughter (Adam Carter and Nil Koksal, 2016). On the evening of May 6, 2013, he was last seen with two men who went for a test drive in a vehicle that Tim was selling. Tim Bosma was shot and stuck into a livestock incinerator located on the accused, Dellen Millard’s, farm and the totality of the evidence provided proof that the remains found were of Tim Bosma (Cambridge Times, 2013). There were three parties to the crime, two accused and an accessory after the fact. Both accused are sentenced to a life of prison and the possibility of parole after 25 years (Paola Loriggio and Liam Casey, 2016).
MILLERSBURG — Identified through DNA evidence collected from urine left at the scene of a crime, Delaware County man on Wednesday denied criminal involvement in an armed robbery of a Monroe Township couple in their home. Kevin A. Strickland, 24, who currently is incarcerated at the Toledo Correctional Institution, pleaded not guilty in Holmes County Common Pleas Court to aggravated robbery and theft. If convicted of the charges, which include a specification alleging the use of a firearm, Strickland faces up to 12 years in prison.
If the blood is dried then it should be scraped into a bindle and if possible a control sample should be taken from the area adjacent to the blood evidence for further testing. Trace Evidence Trace evidence is fragile and hard to find. To process trace
First, Richard Mallory, at age 51, was a clearwater electronics shop owner and was killed on December 1,1989 in Volusia County. But his body was found on December 13 in a wooded area. (写wooden和她住的woods关系）Wuornos shot him several times. Second, David Spears, at age 43, was a winter Garden construction worker and his body was found on June 1, 1990, along Highway 19 in Citrus County. Wuornos shot him six times to the torso.
When found, her body was unrecognisable according to the Police Officer in charge of the investigation, Inspector Wayne King. Within three days (Thursday 26) of the body being discovered,
The two victims were said to have been dead for several hours before being found. At the scene the officers found a single bloody black glove. When arriving at OJ’s house however, the officers noticed a white Ford Bronco with blood in it and on it. When tested the blood on the glove was shown to be both of the victims and that, along with the other evidence, was enough to get an arrest
The Wayne Williams murder trial in 1981 still has some unanswered questions for some. But some of the key facts are as follows; Investigators found unique fibers on the clothes of multiple victims for a two year span. These fibers consisted of a yellow-green color and acetated fibers. The investigators set up surveillance after the serial killer started dumping bodies in the Chattahoochee River. One night the surveillance team heard a loud splash and followed a vehicle and identified the potential suspect as Wayne Williams.
Aileen Wuornos was born February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan to Leo Dale Pittman and Diane Wuornos. Diane had abandoned her children and was never brought up in their household. Her father Leo went to prison before Aileen was born. Leo was a child molester and a psychopath who later hung himself while serving a life sentence in prison after his conviction of kidnaping and raping a seven year old girl. Growing up, Aileen lived with her brother and raised by their grandmother (Biography, 2015).
He then raped and strangled her. He placed her body into a wooden toy chest and dumped her body in Mercer County Park. One day later, he confessed and led police to her body. The court sentenced Timmendequas to the death penalty, but on December
Another proven false confession, Wayne and Sharmon Stock were found shot to death in an upstairs bedroom in April 17, 2006. Police had no leads, so they focused the investigation toward the family. More than a few family member suggested that Matthew Livers a 29 year-old, had a tough relationship with his Uncle Wayne and wasn’t much liked by his Aunt Sharmon. Authorities also connected Livers cousin Nicholas Sampson a 28 year-old with first-degree murder. During Livers interrogation by investigators from the Cass County Sheriff’s Office and Nebraska State Patrol for nearly 11 hour without a lawyer, put a lot of pressure towards Matthew to give the detective what they wanted.
The FBI has numerous divisions that specialize in specific forensic sciences. One of the subdivisions is the Firearms tool marks Unit or otherwise known as the FTU. The FTU main focus is determine whether a specific firearm fired a bullet or cartridge retrieved from a crime scene. The firearm examiner has two specific parts to their criteria, first they always solve fore the class characteristics and after they have successfully determined that step examiners then look and study the individual characteristics. Class characteristics used in firearms comparison are traits that have measurable features (Firearms & Tool Mark, n.d.).
An initial review of the crime scene photos indicates the possibility of latent bloodstains being present in certain areas. Looking closely at the snapshots suggests that certain areas have been cleaned. The door is clearly dirty in certain areas, yet a large portion of it is inexplicably clean and very white compared to the immediate surrounding areas of the door. On the floor, one can see something very similar with the metal plates. All of them are dirty and dusty to some extent – except the one in the lower left of the photo.
Science has come a long way over the years. It has helped countless every day struggles and cure diseases most commonly found. What you don’t hear about however is the advancement of forensic science. Forensic science has helped solve countless cases of murder, rape, and sexual assault. In the case of John Joubert, it helped solve the murders of three young boys with one small piece of evidence that linked him directly to the crime.
The creation of Blood Spatter Analyst has changed the perspective all crime scenes which are intensely solved in a completely new direction. It is the examination of shapes, distribution patterns and location of the bloodstain in order to find the real image which was created in the crime scene. All bloodstains and bloodstain patterns are evaluated by the force they were originally created. ( http://www.bloodspatter.com/bloodstain-tutorial). There has been a vast change and growing environment for the bloodstain spatters as there work now is recognized and appreciated within the law enforcement and the court officials.
