Homicide Detective

March for Florida Teen

April 1, 2012

Thousands participated in a march organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People through the streets of Sanford, Florida. They held signs bearing words such as “Mother’s Tears Have No Color,” “I Am Not a Hoodlum – I Just Wear Hoods” and “How Many Must We Lose to Ignorance”. Civil rights leaders [...]

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Man Charged with Five Murders in San Francisco

March 26, 2012

According to Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries, a serial killer is someone who commits three or more murders as part of three or more distinctive events; whereas a mass murderer is someone who kills a group of people as part of a single incident. Yesterday, 35-year old Binh Thai Luc was arrested and charged with [...]

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Cold Case Solved with Unlikely Suspect Convicted

March 11, 2012

On Friday, Stephanie Lazarus, a former LAPD detective, was found guilty for the first-degree murder of Sherri Rasmussen. She would have got away with the “perfect murder” if it weren’t for Detective James Nuthall literally reopening the 1986 cold case file on a February 2009 morning. Rasmussen had been murdered in her home, with three [...]

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Robert Charles Towery’s Execution

March 8, 2012

At 11:26 am this morning, Robert Charles Towery was pronounced dead, nine minutes after he was lethally injected. The execution in Florence (60 miles outside Phoenix) marks the second within nine days for Arizona and the thirtieth since capital punishment was reintroduced into the state in 1992. Towery is the seventh American death row inmate [...]

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Whitney Houston’s Cause of Death To Be Determined

February 13, 2012

The Queen of Pop Music from at least the mid ‘80s to the late ‘90s died on Saturday, the day before the Grammy Awards. Nominated almost every year between 1986 and 2000 and winning a total of six awards throughout that time, Whitney Houston was remembered last night at the annual music ceremony. Jennifer Hudson [...]

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Does Violent Crime Increase During the Holidays?

December 20, 2011

Back in December, 1978, the Wilmington Morning Star (North Carolina) published an article entitled “Violent crime increases during Christmas season.” At the time, the local chief of police, Captain David Turner, stated that his law enforcementstaff had come to anticipate more violent crimes during the Christmas holidays. The article went on to describe that in [...]

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Phony Craigslist Ads Lead to Homicide

November 27, 2011

It seems likes it comes straight out of an episode of “Criminal Minds,” the crime drama that focuses on the investigative tactics of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia would project a map of Ohio up on the screen highlighting Akron and Stock Township where bodies were found lying in shallow [...]

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Natalie Wood’s Case Reopened

November 18, 2011

Homicide detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department unearthed the case file of Natalie Wood’s mysterious death yesterday. The cold case dates back 30 years (November 29, 1981). Back then, the three-time Oscar-nominated actress’, who starred in films such as “West Side Story” and “Rebel without a Cause”, death was ruled as an accidental [...]

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