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This is an interesting case that I have just taken a bit of a deep dive into. This is a situation where a low risk individual, who no one appears to have anything to gain or any other motive, is murdered. Something that is obvious is that this was a well planned murder targeting Scott...

This is an interesting case I had never heard of. The prosecution of Lemuel Prion is a Classic example of a 90’s era wrongful conviction. “Why waste more time on an investigation that may never be solved when you’ve got a guy who is a despicable lowlife the jury will hate and any conviction...

I can’t say I am very familiar with this case but something that seems fairly obvious is that the Stachowicz call was made by the killer to make sure she was home alone. We can infer from it that she did not recognize the voice of the caller and the voice was consistent with a male in the age...

To me, the most interesting aspect of the case is that his body was dumped in a fairly remote spot in dense vegetation that effectively delayed discovery (which isn’t unusual) but the vehicle was a abandoned fairy nearby the body dump site; which is unusual. Significantly, the vehicle was not...

Even though the Manner of Death has been disclosed, the actual Cause of Death, to the extent that it can be ascertained, has not been disclosed. Alan’s death; presumably a murder, appears to be very unusual. There is perhaps an active investigation that is still going on and there are...

Can anyone offer up any example of a “professional hit” that involved the vehicle being disappeared? When we think of a “professional hit” we think of a Sammy the Bull type mafioso. They don’t advertise and I would think they are pretty selective about who they do business with. I just don’t...

In the late 1990’s, I knew someone who owned a “ high end” vehicle and had a GPS tracking device. Their car was stolen and they were able to track it to someone’s garage. I believe Law Enforcement did it through the security company that they had a subscription with rather than tracking it on...

Exactly. Whoever killed her had no way of knowing she would be there. The odds that someone wanted to kill Jill and decided to go by her house with his improvised gun “on the chance” she would be there, are so slim, they must be discounted. True, something “extremely improbable” is still...

I have no experience in espionage so I am only speculating but I would assume that a State Supported Entity would normally only carry out a “sanctioned hit” if it had operational value; ie some advantage was gained. A Presenter, who just read a script that was handed to her would hardly...

Lindsay’s murder appears to be “targeted”; someone wanted her, specifically, dead. Yet, on paper, she is a very low risk victim. The one area of “risk” in her life was association with some people in the Drug Trade. While I would take any law Enforcement claim that she had no known...

In California, agents contact the listing broker when scheduling a showing so that the occupants will be gone, the house will be in presentable shape and no other showings will be going on. My guess is that is pretty much SOP everywhere. This does present a perfect opportunity for a crime...

Since she was not sexually assaulted, there was no obvious source of DNA but there was a ligature, the clothing that she was wearing and anywhere in her car that were potential sources of touch DNA but methods of collecting and retaining evidence at the time were not conducive for today’s...

The murders of these three women plus the murder of Donna Lass (South Lake Tahoe Sept 9, 1970) were similar to the extent that they were sexually related murders of young woman in the same geographic area in the same year that remained unsolved for many years. There was speculation that they...

There is some evidence that there were two perpetrators involved. Witnesses reported seeing two men in the shop after everyone else had left, there is degraded DNA the is believed to belong to a second, as of yet unidentified male, and the problems inherent with one assailant controlling 4...

There is some compelling evidence that 2 perpetrators were involved; (a second more degraded DNA recovered, 2 men seen together at closing time and the obvious difficulty one man would have controlling and tying up 4 victims). More analysis of the other DNA using latest technology is an obvious...