Recent content by Melquiades

That tie looks more black than blue and is of a pretty generic style. I’m still at about 98% that Barry George did this.

Shouldn't this be in the 'Identified!' section at this point?

Yeah, weird. If they could prove the bag was ordered after he'd worked there in 1992 it's an absolutely airtight case, but if the bag had been there in 1992 the fingerprints aren't really evidence at all and if that was the key piece of evidence it's amazing that it went to trial.

Between her very posh name ('de Vere' is an old/significant surname in the English aristocracy), the fact that she had been studying English Lit. at university before dropping out, and the fact that she was referencing 'going to Switzerland' in conversations with her mother, it's a pretty safe...

Jeez, grow out the beard and that age 55 approximation is absolutely dead on.

Given the pathology of the killer, it’s surprising that she never reached out to the victim’s husband afterward to try to further establish a relationship. Perhaps this is because the killing was so botched and she worried she’d be recognized but it’s still interesting.

Wow - serial killers/sex offenders who use poison as a murder weapon are exceedingly rare and to have a known offender who used strychnine in a sex crime in the same state and the same time period is pretty telling. Occam’s Razor would say this is the guy. Wonder if they know he did it but...

The central thing about this case, to me, is that that the double-meetup has to mean that this wasn't a planned murder. If the murderer was just there to kill the victim, you do it right away and you aren't handing him an envelope and letting him walk away and hoping he comes back. The reason...

Oh, there's absolutely a possibility that there could have been some small personal motivation connected to his job that led to this crime. But there's no way in hell this was organized crime or some sort of 'professional hit' to 'send a message'. The occupation 'banker' has a huge range of...

I'd never heard about this case until the 'police update coming tomorrow!' post last week and, like, 5 minutes of reading about this case and this guy had me expecting that he'd be named as his wife's killer. The notion that his wife would ride along to a mysterious meet-up point in the wee...

There's no way in this case. 1) As someone mentioned already, there's no way the killer could have know that anything about 'Paul' or the envelope would be told to the wife. There's no way he could even have know that he'd come back to the door a second time. Nothing about this says 'messaging...

Slightly eyebrow-raising that a truck driver was driving a late-model Cadillac.

It sucks when everyone knows who committed a crime but they managed to get lucky and do it without leaving any witnesses or physical evidence.

Yup. When a celebrity is attacked it's pretty much always either a domestic violence situation or a stalker situation. And we have numerous similar crimes to this (Rebecca Schaeffer, John Lennon, Eddie Waitkus) and it's always a lone obsessed oddball committing the crime. And then in this...

If she actually knew Bellfield, Bellfield is probably the killer. Most people probably never meet a single serial killer in their lives and the odds you could know one but get murdered by another are astronomical. Same deal as the murdered little girl who was a neighbour of Ted Bundy’s when...