A couple of weeks ago in the Times, there was a wonderful story by James Gorman about a determined detective in Florida who used a new for method of scientific study called isotope analysis to help move a forty-one year old cold case forward. It’s a great and hopeful read. More recently, I read about […]

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From the Staten Island Advance: “STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Justice was served Friday in deadly Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath as a Staten Island jury convicted a Queens man of slaying his former girlfriend in her Stapleton apartment 13 years ago. Carl Allen was found guilty in state Supreme Court, St. George, of brutally bludgeoning and stabbing […]

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I meant to post about this a lot earlier. From the NYPD website: September 24. New York City Police Department, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and Innocence Project Awarded Federal Funds to Identify Wrongful Convictions Grant Will Enable the NYPD to Catalogue Evidence That Can Be Subjected to DNA Testing The New York City […]

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The conference will take place from Aug. 13-17 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The very impressive list of instructors and presenters listed in the email announcement:   • Detective Sgt. Pat Postiglione, Metropolitan Davidson County (Nashville) Police Department’s Cold Case Unit   • Dr. Lee Meadows Jantz and Dr. Joanne Bennett Devlin of […]

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