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Parents of Murdered Children

February 26th, 2006 · Comments Off on Parents of Murdered Children

One of the cases I wrote about involved a child, 14-year-old Christine Ann Diefenbach, who was murdered on Sunday, February 7, 1988. I can see why cases involving children get to detectives more. It’s simply unendurable. While researching this case I spent some time on the Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) website. They have online […]

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The Vidocq Society

January 8th, 2006 · Comments Off on The Vidocq Society

Fred Martens, the former head of the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, who helped me when I was working on the Sodder story, is a member a crime solving organization called The Vidocq Society, (named for an 18th century french detective). From their website: Our Mission & Credo The Vidocq Society is dedicated to dealing with long-unsolved […]

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Undeclared Homicide and Missing Persons

November 20th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Losing someone is hard. Not knowing what happened, or who killed them makes it harder. Then there is the unbearable pain of not knowing anything at all: the missings persons case. Someone disappeared. That’s all the family and friends of this person know and in some cases that is all they ever will know. They […]

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