On February 25, 2010 Chelsea King, a 17 year old cross country runner from Poway high school, went for a run around Lake Hodges in Escondido. She took longer than expected worrying her parents. At 6 pm that evening her parents filed a missing person's report. The community came together to search for her hoping she was still alive. The police used dogs, drones, and helicopters with infrared sensors.They found her car parked with all her belongings still in it. A few days later her body was found on the shore of Lake Hodges. December 27th, 2009 a 23 year old woman named Candice Moncayo went for a run on the very same trail King had. By her surprise, an overweight white man grabbed and attacked her. Her sister wrote in the Rancho Bernardo High School newspaper, “[Moncayo] was tackled and thrown to the side of the running trail, caught off guard and without …show more content…
He was accused of trying to strangle her and “repeatedly punching her in the face and touching her private parts.”(2) A court ordered psychiatrist wanted Gardner to get the maximum prison sentence but got off with 6 years; he only served 5 of his 6 years and was let out on parole in 2008 against the prison's psychiatrists wishes. The psychiatrist stated that “[he] would be a continuous danger to underage girls in the community.”(1) In March 2010, the remains of a young girl’s body was found. These skeletal remains were a match to Amber DuBois, probably determined by isotopic analysis and mass spectrometry. DuBois had been missing for over a year; the last time she was seen she was walking alone to school in 2009. King's underwear was found a few days later after her body was found. The forensics scientists performed a RSID semen test to detect if any semen was present. After finding that there was in fact semen present, the forensic specialists ran the DNA through a national database and came up with a match. It was John
The M25 rapist case began in Ashford, Kent, on November 2001, when a ten-year-old girl was raped. She was kidnapped. This lead in a massive man hunt when DNA was recovered (KFS, 2). The investigators conducted a mass screen of over 2,000 males around the local area, but the results cam back inconclusive with no matches found.
The case had finally been closed when Rader’s daughter obtained a DNA sample, and compared it to semen left at some of BTK’s crime scenes. Eventually, they would successfully identify the ‘BTK’ killer as Dennis
There are many open wounds in the African-American community that have not healed what so ever. Disintegration of family structures in the African-American community has been a persistent problem for far too long. High out of wedlock birth rates, absent fathers, and the lack of a family support network for many young African-Americans have led to serious problems in America's urban areas. The persistence of serious social problems in inner-city areas has led to a tragic perpetuation of racial prejudice as well. African Americans still face a litany of problems in the 21st century today.
The morning of February 24, 2005, the grandmother of 9yr. old Jessica Lunsford called the police in Citrus County, Fla., to report her granddaughter had disappeared from her room the night before. She had tucked her into bed. The only thing that was missing was a stuffed animal that her father won for her at the county fair. Immediately police began to search for Jessica.
Tragedy struck when the twenty-three year old woman went missing in 2001 and
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.
In the following days of a pregnant woman being found dead in her Georgia home, police arrested Tyrail Arrenzo Wynn, 25, and charged him with burglary, aggravated assault, feticide, murder and child cruelty. At the Carroll County Sheriff 's Office, Captain Jeff Richards responded that Wynn will appear in court on Friday. Authorities of criminal law believe Wynn last lived in the 100 block of Mitchell Circle, which is located less than a mile from where they discovered the body of Nakita Lashawn Holland, 36. When Holland 's sister stopped at her home in Bennett Circle, she heard her sister 's toddler crying. When she and the victim 's landlord unlocked the door and went inside, they discovered Nakita dead in the bedroom, with multiple gunshot wounds.
Retrieved from http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/casey-anthony-investigation-missed-fool-proof-suffocation-clue-office/1263221 Dr. Drew. (23 April 2012). Dr. G reveals secrets of Caylee anthony’s autopsy. HLNtv: NY, NY. Retrieved from
In February 2012, a 28-year-old man followed a 17-year-old youth and killed him on a residential street. The youth hadn’t done anything; he did not commit a crime, and he hadn’t provoked the older man. He was shot simply because he seemed “suspicious.” This was the story of Trayvon Martin’s death in Sanford, Florida at the hands of George Zimmerman (Cooper). Zimmerman, the killer, is a white man while Trayvon was an innocent black youth.
The Evidence Victims In this case, there were three total victims between the ages of eleven to thirteen, all of which being boys. While jogging near his home in Portland, Maine, eleven-year-old Richard Stetson went missing. During his newspaper route, thirteen-year-old Danny Joe Eberle vanished in the early hours
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 next day the police used the description to search the skating rink hoping to find the assailant. They identified Anthony Powell, despite the fact that he had a full head of hair and a full beard. His picture was taken and the victim picked him out of a photo lineup and he was later convicted (Possley, n.d.). It wasn’t until 2002 that the case was reopened to examine the DNA in the case against that of Anthony Powell. The victim claimed she also had sex with her boyfriend before the rape, so both Anthony and her previous boyfriend were tested using DNA fingerprinting to check for a match.
For over 20 years, millions of Americans have been following the twisted and unsolved murder of six-year old beauty contestant JonBenet Ramsey. Christmas of 1996 brought terror to Boulder, Colorado as the world watched the crime scene unfold as Little Miss Colorado was found strangled in the basement of her family’s home. Pieces from the brutal murder such as a lengthy ransom note are unheard of, leaving the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shocked. Two decades later, the case remains a mystery due to police mishap, mishandled evidence, and an abundance of conspiracy theories. Suspicions have ranged from her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, to the outrageous, Santa Claus.
"(“Jailed for murder”). She was a social worker who was 49 years old when she lost her life. The first person to discover the body was Mr. Bench who was a firefighter. The connection to her was that Mr. Bench had a brother that dated her, but they had broken up two months prior to crime. Bench eventually became a suspect.
The Murder of Danielle Van Dam By: Nevethan Jeyachandran Submitted to Dr.Monica Sauer Student Number: 500-523-913 Course: Intro to Forensics (CCHY-183) December 01, 2014 Introduction The Murder of Danielle Van Dam is a gruesome case which took place in the year 2002. A 7-year old girl went missing from her bedroom in San Diego, California, on Feb1-2, 2002. Her badly decomposed body was found in a remote area far away from her home on February 27. Police suspected a neighbour, David Alan Westerfield for the murder.