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NEWS AND NEW EVENTS
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A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.
Edward R. Murrow
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Sometimes the passage of time is all a cold case -- one that has gone unsolved for years -- needs to generate heat.
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“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.”
William Tecumseh Sherman quotes (American Civil War General and a major architect of modern warfare. 1820-1891)
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Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Alright, listen up, people. Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injuries is 4 miles-per-hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimble. Go get him. ..... From the movie "The Fugitive"
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Simple looksee at the wrongoing within our criminal and civil Justice Systems. That which destroys the integrity of these United States.
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MISSING PERSONS
All Missing Persons
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New Case Alerts. New Missing Persons and Case Alerts !! New Wanted Person Alerts !!
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SCARY STATS 90 percent of all children abducted by strangers are sexually assaulted, then released by their abductor Less than 3 percent of abducted children are murdered 74 percent of murdered children were killed within the first three hours of their abduction 91 percent of the murdered children were killed within the first 24 hoursSource: www.amber-plan.net
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There are, in fact, 97,297 actively missing persons from the United States, according to the most recently available national count (as of 2003) by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. . About 44 percent of them are adults, and 56 percent of them children.
The Lone Star State has a Texas-sized share of those missing persons, according to Susan Burroughs of the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Missing Persons Clearinghouse: 6,927 Texans were actively missing as of December 31, 2004.
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A Place For Posting Active Ongoing Searches For Missing Persons and Rewards Posted For Missing Loved Ones.
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Featuring One Missing Child Every Week
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS
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Breaking Stories on Unidentified Persons
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Investigators probing the discovery of at least 13 sets of human bones buried on Albuquerque's west mesa have set up a telephone tip line seeking information on the case.
The number will be in operation 24 hours a day at 1-877-APD-SOLV (1-877-765-8273), Officer Nadine Hamby of the Albuquerque Police Department said. Extra detectives will be answering phones from noon to midnight on Wednesday and Thursday, she said.
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Feature Forums
FEATURED CASES :
Please add any threads you wish to these featured cases.
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Located in Georgia, 11/10/1973
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Unidentified Female, Located October 31, 1969, Florida
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Approximately 2 Years Old
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Unknown Male, Located in 1973, Florida
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Located 1966, Alachua County, Florida
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THE STAR FORUM
In God We Trust, All Others Are Suspects
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God (Matthew 5:9)
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Officers Of Distinction.
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Historical Escapes
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Guns, Ammo, Firearm Laws, Weapons, Rights, etc..... Water Pistols.....
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CCI WORLDWIDE
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Topics and News Stories of Interest on the subject of terrorism.
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Missing Persons, Unidentified Persons, and all crimes Of Interest Internationally.
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Canada : Missing Persons, Crimes and Unsolved Mysteries
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Historical
" The Only Thing New In This World Is The History You Don't Know "
Truman Capote
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I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.......Amelia Earhart
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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover
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Alphonse Bertillon was a file clerk for the French police. He aspired to find a way to identify repeat offenders, even if they tried to use false names. During the late 1870s, as offenders were arrested, he used a tape measure and calipers to take eleven to fourteen seperate measurements, from the length of the foot to the width of the jaw to the distance between the eyes, classifying each person as small, medium, or large and recording the measurements on cards placed in categories. After measuring almost two thousand men, he found a repeat offender he was able to identify by measurements even though the man was using a false identity. The police adopted this method for a short time.
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Starlight Forums
Specific Type Cases
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Located in Arizona, 2000.
Estimated age: 25 - 40 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'10" - 6'1"; 160-200 Lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: 6-inch brown hair and a moustache.
Dentals: Available
Clothing: He was wearing jeans a T-shirt with "Hot Boat Magazine, Beverly Hills" printed on both sides, white sneakers and a calculator Casio wrist watch. Also found was a nylon pouch containing a leatherman tool knife and a small flashlight engraved with the letters "JKP."
Fingerprints: Available
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Unidentified Female, Located in Tennessee, 1975
Found 2/14/1975, about Noon by Hunters.
Wooded area of Hwy 99 East. Off of Joe Brown Road, near I-65.
Age: 17-21 (likely 17), 5'3-5'5"
PMI: Fall 1974 (Skeletal/scattered bones/Pos partial burial)
Wearing: Red Shell Blouse, Black Italian-made wedge shoes and Greyish Blue Slacks (They have a 3 dot pattern to them).
__________________
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Just remember deep in your hearts,
I’m not the reason we had to part,
And that I love you more than life,
You are the angels of my life. ...
Amy J. Rhodes
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The first three girls all disappeared in 1969, in the last two weeks of May.
Ten-year-old Mary Mount, in a pink top and shorts, was last seen chasing her kitten in New Canaan. Dawn Cave, a blond-haired, blue- eyed 14-year-old, stormed out of her Bethany home after a fight with her sister. Diane Toney, 11, wearing a green polka-dot dress, was watching a parade in New Haven.
The fourth girl, the youngest, was taken 16 months later. Five-year-old Jennifer Noon disappeared in September 1970 while walking home from her New Haven school to eat lunch.
Four little girls, all snatched near their homes, all beaten to death with rocks, all dumped in wooded areas. Four killings, three decades old, none of them solved.
At least not as far as the public knows.
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"WE HAVE TO FIND THE HAYSTACK, BEFORE WE CAN FIND THE NEEDLE IN THAT HAYSTACK" J. B. Kline , Galveston County Sheriff.
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The angel cradles her charge,
gently rocking, while tears stream down her face...
mixing with the silent tears of the child.
The dove quietly sings its grievous song of mourning
for the lost innocence of this precious tot.
There is no peace this night.
Pamela Prentiss-Harrison
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Gearen, a legal secretary, and her 2-year-old daughter, Kyra, were staying with friends at a beach house on Crystal Beach on July 14 when Gearen walked outside a little more than a minute ahead of her friends at 11:56 p.m., Tuttoilmondo said.
The friends heard a gate at the top of the stairs close and she was gone by the time they reached the bottom of the steps.
"It happened in a minute and a half," Tuttoilmondo said. "She just vanished from this earth."
Campers discovered Gearen's body in the surf about 6:30 a.m.
The autopsy showed she had been raped, beaten and strangled, but investigators believe she put up a fight, said sheriff's Lt. Tommy Hansen, the lead investigator.
TIPS: bridgettegearen2008@gmail .com
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He passed what he thought was a yellow truck. Then he heard Hammond scream again. "When she screamed at me out the window," he said, "I put it in reverse and started chasing him. " Shafer chased the truck about a mile, he said, racing south on Clinton's 2nd Street, then turning west on Culvert Drive. But his car's transmission failed, Shafer said, and the pickup - maybe a 1969 or 1970 Ford - sped away. The truck may have had a decal of a water scene on the back window. Hammond has not been seen since. Police found her car in the parking lot that night, said Clinton Detective Damon Parsons.
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'He (Appellant) is impulsive and very easily frustrated. His judgment is extremely poor due to his faulty emotional development. He fails to appreciate the foolish, almost ludicrous quality of * * * (his) reasoning * * *.
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'Twas an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away.
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"Let the little children come to Me, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
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"It has been a trauma. Some people say I am a manipulator, a master of disguise. I am a real person. I wasn't hatched. I breathe air. I drink water,"
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Information
Various Information. About anything.
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Post anything helpful in the research of criminal history.
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Newspaper article sites
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How-To sites, Web design, etc...
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State information.
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Anything that may be helpful or useful.
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The basic idea of a criminal profile was to acquire a body of information that revealed a common pattern for a general description of an UNSUB (unknown subject) in terms of habit, possible employment, martial status, mental state, and personality traits. Probing for an experiential assessment of a criminal from a series of crime scenes involved a detailed victimology — learning significant facts about the victim's life, especially in the days and hours leading up to his or her death. Their movements were mapped and investigators study all of their personal communications for signals to where they may have crossed paths with a viable suspect..........Hazelwood viewed sex offenders as either impulsive or ritualistic. Impulsive offenders were opportunistic and generally of lower intelligence and economic means, and their sexual behavior often served power or anger needs. Ritualistic offenders, on the other hand, indulged in paraphilias and compulsive behaviors that satisfied a specific psychological need. As they centered their lives around this activity, they learned to lie and manipulate in order to keep it hidden from others and secretly active
....FROM CRIMELIBRARY
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The mind of a killer;
The Fight or Flight Syndrome ( Cannon - 1917 )is
involved in most homicides : the remainder are
premeditated or predatory in singular and predatory
serial murders, singular being retributive, serial
being psychopathic.
The disciplines involved in solution
are forensic medicine, severely experienced homicide
trained investigators and forensic psychologist.------
Doctor Cecil Wingo, Forensic Analyst
Medical Trauma/Psychology
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"Violence is as American as Apple Pie"
H. Rap Brown
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The distinction between MO and signature, is in the intent. Actions considered consistent with MO can be linked to one of three intended purposes; 1) to ensure the offender's success in committing the crime; 2) to obscure or otherwise protect the offender from being readily identified or; 3) to facilitate or effect the offender's escape. Actions discovered during an investigation which fall into one or more of these categories can be ascribed as MO.
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"a personal detail that is unique to the individual, why he does it: the thing that fulfills him emotionally" John Douglas
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I have no particular desire to live. I have no particular desire to be killed. It is a matter of indifference to me. I do not think I am altogether right." --Albert Fish
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The Zodiac Killer
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..This Is The Zodiac Speaking, Like I Have Always Said, I Am Crack Proof....
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There's no question about it, he's a man who loves publicity. He's an extremely dangerous psychopath. I don't see a word of remorse in any of the letters. He seems to glory in what he's doing."
Martin Lee
Chief of Detectives, San Francisco
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...The S.F. Police could have caught me last night if they had searched the park properly in stead of holding road races with their motorcicles seeing who could make the most noise......
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..About the only way the heat will stop is if,well if, if I die that'll, that'll cure it for me, or if, if, if Zodiac himself confesses...
Arthur Leigh Allen
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They haven't arrested me be.....because they can't prove a thing....
Arthur Leigh Allen
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WMA (White Male Adult)
35-45 years old
Approximately 5'8"
Heavy Build
Short Brown Hair Possibly With Red Tint
Wears Glasses
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We must always be ready and willing to discard (or at least modify) our theories if we test them and find out they are wrong. Otherwise, we get stuck in our own abstractions again, ignoring reality.
Ad Santel
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TOPICS
Interesting Subjects Posted By Our Members
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Interesting topics posted by our members
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Member Contributions
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Topics and News Stories
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Topics and News Stories of Interest
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"My dad told me a long, long time ago, the only thing that's ever truly yours is your name," she says. "And Princess Blue doesn't have one right now. And I'd like to see her get her name back."
......Alexandria Goddard
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ASTRAL LIGHT FORUM
Nonspecific Subject Forum. All Subjects. Crime Subjects of All Sorts.
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Big Bend National Park is a Land of Borders. Situated on the Boundary of Mexico Along the Rio Grande, it is a Place where Countries and Cultures Meet. It is Also a Place that Merges Natural Environments, from Desert to Mountains. It is a Place where South Meets North and East Meets West, Creating a Great Diversity of Plants and Animals. The Park Covers over 801,000 of West Texas in the Place Where the Rio Grande Makes a Sharp Turn, the "Big Bend." Big Bend National Park was Authorized June 20, 1935, Established June 12, 1944, and was Designated a United States Biosphere Reserve in 1976.
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..Other words, just like everyone else "except for their artwork"
Ours hangs on no wall - it's on our flesh.....-----John Carter
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For those tougher cases, tracking down clues. If you have any tips or information pertaining to these cases, please email us at coldcasemystery@gmail.com
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Missing and Unidentified Persons With Multiple Piercings or Other Piercings
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Current Trials
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....Late in the night, Felts turned the Grand Prix onto Danger Road and parked. Fernandez ordered the three captives out of the vehicle. The three men were bound, gagged, and blindfolded. It was hot. Bugs chirped. The cars on U.S. 27 hummed in the distance.........
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FAMILY MATTERS
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The store's motto was "Have what the people want, let them know you have it, and organize to serve them quickly, courteously and satisfactorily."
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I don't even know what street Canada is on.
Al Capone
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THE CELLAR
..In the dark, searching for the next damp stair, the board creeks...
Smell of roots, feathery cobwebs touch my face, groping for the light string...
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...The detection of poisons in a human body was to become the first significant discovery of clear physical evidence in the field of forensic science, primarily because poison became such a pervasive weapon, but that would not stop many from perfecting their techniques.....
In 1787, Johann Daniel Metzger devised a means for detecting arsenic in solutions. He discovered when arsenious oxide is heated with charcoal, it forms a black mirrorlike deposit on a cold plate held over the coals, the substance is arsenic.....
....The detection of arsenic advanced another step in 1806, when Valentine Rose discovered how to locate it in human organs. He used nitric acid, potassium carbonate, and lime, turning that mixture into powder form and treating it with coals to get the telltale mirror substance... the appeal of poison as a murder weapon showed no signs of diminishing.......
From: THE HUMAN PREDATOR by Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D.
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The Cellar: FEATURE CASES
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Unidentified Female, Located September 19, 1995. NEVADA
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The woman's face was reconstructed from autopsy photographs. She was between 20 and 30, 5-foot-2 or 5-3 and about 140 pounds, with short dark brown hair and brown eyes, said State Trooper Mark Healy.
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The woman was about 5-feet-1, 150 pounds, with dark brown hair. She had a small birthmark on her left upper thigh and a stab wound in the chest and in the back, he said, of course the cause of death was listed as a stab wound in the right lung.
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Unidentified Male, Located June 11, 1964, Fort Bend County, Texas
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MARITIME MYSTERIES AND BURIED TREASURE
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‘O where am I?’ quoth she, ‘in earth or heaven,
Or, in the ocean drench’d or in the fire?
What hour is this? or morn or weary even?
Do I delight to die, or life desire?
But now I lived, and life was death’s annoy;
But now I died, and death was lively joy.’
— Venus in Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis,”
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