Introduction A divorced, thirty-eight year old, Hispanic woman, named Anna Garcia, died on August 25, 2015 at approximately 11:00 am. Anna’s best friend and co-worker, Lucy Leffingwell had reported to officials that Anna had been in the hospital, experiencing back pain, radiating towards her sides, Lucy also commenting that Anna told Lucy that she had stopped taking antibiotics that were prescribed to her. At about 9:45 am, Anna’s neighbor named Doug Greene contacted the police reporting that he is worried about his neighbor Anna, explaining to officials that he experienced seeing Anna at at approximately 630 am wearing a sweater while that part of town was experiencing a heat wave recently. The neighbor also said that Anna’s dog had been barking excitedly for the last two hours.
Name of the case: Case of James Anagnos Victim: James Anagnos Suspects:Frank wright Link between the hair and case: After being stabbed twenty times, and being hit in the head four times, the victim Mr. Anagnos was found dead with hair in his hand, thought to be from the suspect. In 2010 the hair sample was sent to a private lab in Texas to be examined, and this led to the hair being identified as the hair of Frank wright who was the murderer. Case Name: Case of John Joubert Victims: Danny Joe Eberle Suspects: John Joubert Hair Link: The fibers of the rope used to bind the victim was a rare type of rope and one that the suspect had, as well as hair from the boy that was bound in rope in his car. Name of the case: Evonitz Vs.
Timothy Cole was convicted of Aggravated Sexual Assault on September 17th 1998. Timothy Cole was a 26-year-old young man who used to attend Texas Tech as a business major. While he attended Texas Tech, the police was looking for a serial rapist known as the “Tech Rapist”. It was March 24th 1985 when the crime that wrongfully convicted Mr. Cole occurred. It was a dark night when 24-year-old Texas Tech student Michele Mallin parked her car near a church to get to her apartment.
Case 1- Name of case-1977 Murder of Rubidox Victim-James Anagnos Suspects-Frank Wright How the hair and fiber made a connection to the case. Anagnos was stabbed twenty times and hit in the head. Case
In September of 1961, a woman from District of Columbia had an intruder break into her apartment. While the invader of the home was there, they had taken her wallet, and also raped the woman. During the investigation of the crime, the police had found some latent fingerprints in the apartment. The police then established and processed the prints. The prints were then connected back to 16 year old Morris A. Kent.
The Danielle Van Dam murder case, in which a seven-year-old California girl was abducted from her bedroom and later found dead in a wooded area does not alter my decision from the first scenario. Because the neighbor, Westerfield did commit the crime, the physical evidence found in Westerfield’s home proved very damaging in court. This case is very much like the first scenario, Westerfield lawyers knew that he did it because they wanted to change his plea in exchange if he revealed the location of Danielle's body. How could they try to break a deal if Westerfield denied the whole time he did not abduct the little girl, but he wants to tell where her body is in exchange for a lighter sentence. Westerfield admitted to his attorneys he did the
The murder case of Leanne Holland exposed the ways in which forensic science were both a help and a hindrance to the conviction and subsequent overturning of the verdict, against Graham Stafford. The body of 12-year-old Leanne Holland was found battered and partially naked in scrub 30m off Redbank Plains Rd on September 26, 1991. She went missing on Monday morning on September 23, 1991. According to descriptions, she was last seen wearing a long-sleeved purple jumper, black skirt and no shoes as she headed towards shops just 500m from her Alice St home in Goodna.
The Ethics of Fred Zain Fred Zain was a forensic lab technician that worked for both the states of West Virginia and Texas. A man who did a job he was severely under qualified for, for ten years, and who was thought to be a start asset in his line of work. Fred Zain had testified in countless cases, presenting himself well and appeared to know his trade so well that no one in the courtroom questioned the lab results obtained by Zain. It is very well known that his actions in court are viewed as unethical by today’s standards. In his time of employment, Fred Zain acquired a lengthy rap sheet of tampering and falsifying evidence, false convictions.
Brandon Mayfield was wrongfully accused of being the bomber in 2004 Madrid Train Bombings. On March 11, 2004 Al -Qaeda inspiring terrorist initiated a bomb attack on the train killing 193 people and wounded over 1,000. As a result, the crime was investigated, and two fingerprints were retrieved from a bag. When the fingerprints came back there were 20 possible matches, and Brandon was one of them. In the past Brandon was in the military and was arrested for a misunderstanding, which caused his prints to be in the system.
When James “Whitey” Bulger appeared in court for the first time in June of 2013, one would never know that he was once the most feared criminal in Boston. At 84 years old, Bulger “shuffled into a federal courthouse” like “a dinosaur in an orange jumpsuit.” (McMorrow 1) After 16 years of escaping the wrath of the FBI, Bulger was finally being put on trial for his long list of heinous crimes including 11 murders, money laundering, weapon violations, and racketeering. (McMorrow 1) However, even more shocking than his convictions was the relationship Bulger had with the FBI, which unraveled before the eyes of the court and people across the country.
This letter sent panic through many women and many changed their hair to not fit the description of many of his victims(crime). Usually but not always, Berkowitz gets away without a witness(BE 4). Police were able to get their first sketch of the killer at his last shooting(History). A witness came forward describing him as wearing a wig and driving a yellow car(Crime Museum). The witness also claimed that some police officers were giving out parking tickets that night, and by luck Berkowtiz’s yellow car was one of the cars that received a parking ticket that night(History).
Mrs. Roach starts the book by telling about the time she experienced a facial anatomy and face lift refresher course. She explains how a human skull and a severed head effect the living human handling the cadavers remains mentality. With a head, there 's still tissue, it 's almost like you can feel every day that person has ever lived in your hands. But with a skull there is no tissue, only bone making the remains seem...Less than human. During the rising action of the book, Roach talks about more of the things she’s encountered on her journey to becoming a Forensic Scientist.
RIVERSIDE - Although the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s office found the officer-involved shooting of an Adelanto man justified in 2015, a jury awarded Kevion Young $110,000 plus undisclosed punitive damages on Thursday. The non-fatal officer-involved shooting occurred on January 29, 2014, when undercover deputies were looking for the murder suspect, Robert Pope. Pope was wanted for the murder of Ernie Sanders and the attempted murder of Summer Mattes that occurred the previous day.
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.
Hair and Fiber Case 1 Name:1977 Cold Case Murder Solved By A Hair DAte:October,18 1977 Victim;James Anagnos also known as “Jimmy The Greek”was found dead at Oct.18,1977 inside his bar when he was closing it. The victim was stabbed twenty times with a “steak knife”and had been hit four times in the head with a solid and hard (blunt)object. The cause of death was from injuries from his head. Suspects:Frank wright- a man who died in 2002 from complications due to alcohol abuse,according to sgt. Brown.
