View the movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVDUVOu9dlM The tragic case that shook Kansas City, Missouri awake over 33 years ago may now have a chance to be solved. Thanks to the Kansas City Police Department for releasing their file, new evidence has emerged. In “A Quest For Closure: The Kansas City Firefighters Case Part 1," the KCPD and federal agents had local and national media outlets implicate people in the crime without supporting evidence. The prosecution then won a conviction many are now calling into question after it was found that a key police report and crime scene pho ..read more

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929 would usher in the use of forensic ballistics to solve gun crimes.  by Dr. Peter L. Platteborze Most of us have sat mesmerized in front of a TV watching how highly motivated detectives solve a perplexing crime.  The popular non-fictional series “Forensic Files” has as its mantra “no witness, no leads, no problem” which alludes to how crime scene evidence will ultimately lead to the identification of the unknown perpetrator.  Forensics, simply put, is the application of science to the law.  Since the 1960s, the U.S. criminal justice ..read more

Jan. 13, 2014 Countess Erzsébet Báthory by David Robb Lady Macbeth is perhaps the most famous fictional female villainess in all of literature, but in 1606, while William Shakespeare was creating her bloodthirsty character, one of the world’s worst real life villainess was on a serial murder spree like no other. All but forgotten today, Countess Erzsébet Báthory was descended from one of the noblest families in the Hungarian region of Transylvania. But Erzsébet wasn’t like other girls – she liked to torture and murder them. All told, she may have murdered more than 650 young girls and virgi ..read more