Last Wednesday the House passed a bill that will provide $10 million for the next ten years to go towards clearing close to 100 civil rights cold case murders. The bill includes $2 million per year for state and local law enforcement agencies. 76 of the cases came from the Southern Poverty Law Centre, which […]
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Civil Rights Cold Case Bill
June 26th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Cold Case Squads · Old Murder Cases
Bruce Kremen Update
June 4th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Last year I posted about a little boy named Bruce Kremen who went missing in California in 1960, and I just realized I never posted an incredible update to this story. Another writer, Weston DeWalt, who was investigating another boy who went missing in California, Tommy Bowman, actually came across new evidence and now the […]
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A Gold Mine in Retirement
March 4th, 2007 · No Comments
People who have retired from law enforcement are an amazing resource. A lot of that must be due to the fact that they are finally free of all the politics that come with the job. I’ve been looking into a 1934 San Francisco case and I was referred to retired Deputy Chief Kevin J. Mullen. […]
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1959 Case in Wisconsin
January 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
On April 9, 1959, NASA announced which seven pilots would become the first US astronauts, Frank Lloyd Wright died, and Vyron Martin found his wife Ruth dead on the sofa in their cabin on Marsh-Miller Lake. She was naked and shot in the head with a .22 caliber bullet. Here’s an article with more details. […]
Tags: Old Murder Cases