Defrosting Cold Cases
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Defrosting Cold Cases is a website with information about unsolved homicides, the missing and the unidentified, wrongful convictions, and book reviews. On here, you'll find articles about old, unsolved cases from the pre-DNA era. They need renewed media attention. The active investigations of these cases is left to professionals.
Defrosting Cold Cases
5d ago
Thanks to this this blog I found J.S. Savage‘s debut and it is a gem. The Mystery of Treefall Manor is the first Inspector Graves mystery and I hope that many will follow. We are in 1926, in the UK. The prologue starts strong. A maid, Jayne Brown, demands to see wealthy, successful business man, landowner, and […]
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1w ago
Andrew Dean Elam (March 3, 1970 – June 17, 1989) was 19 years old when his life ended. The Desert Sun (Tu) June 20, 1989 called Andrew an “exceptionally” bright young man whose death was senseless. Andrew and his parents had been jogging in the San Jacinto Mountains. He returned to the car to walk […]
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2w ago
I am excited about this new Historical Fiction series by D.V. Bishop. It is set in the sixteenth century in Florence, Italy, and at the time Duke Alessandro de Medici ruled it. The first book, City of Vengeance, came out in 2021. The cover caught my eye in the bookstore. Having been to Florence, the […]
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1M ago
The McDonald County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri has released a statement that brings the case of Shawna Beth Garber to an end. The case is now cleared by exception as the suspect in her murder passed away. “It is believed that Talfey Reeves (deceased as of November 15, 2021), picked Shauna up from the Tanglewood/Ginger […]
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2M ago
The photograph on the dustcover and the book blurbs on the back give the reader the impression that this book is completely dedicated to forensic sciences, in particular forensic sculpting. It looks like a book that will take us through several unsolved cases where the skills of the author, Lisa Bailey, helped bring them to […]
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2M ago
During the summer of 1979, Christopher Daniel Myles (Sept 30, 1962 – June 4, 1979) was found murdered in a vineyard near Hughes and Nebraska avenues, Caruthers, Fresno County, California. He was sixteen years old and still in high school. I found a few articles in the newspaper archives from the Fresno Bee and the […]
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Defrosting Cold Cases
3M ago
“Women Who Murder: An International Collection of Deadly True Crime Tales” is the latest book by Mitzi Szereto. Women who kill. We all know a few either from true crime or fiction. Myra Hindley, Mary Ann Cotton, Bellatrix Lestrange, and Annie Wilkes. In this book, we have globe-covering stories and authors. We go from the […]
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3M ago
Donald Cedric Faul was stabbed to death near New Orlean’s riverside Moon Walk around 6am on January 25, 1981, New Orleans, Louisiana. Donald had stab wounds to the chest and back, according to then-Coroner Frank Minyard. Stabbed at least nine times, he died at the scene. According to the friend who was with him, the male […]
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4M ago
The next installment in one of my favorite historical fiction series did not disappoint. In fact, it made me love the series more. I always wanted to know more about Lady Anne Winter, a Royalist spy from the Damian Seeker series, and in this book, we see more of her personality. But let us start […]
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4M ago
A book about ‘Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom’ it says on the cover. As you can see from the cover photo, this couple loved each other. They seem to melt in each other’s embrace daring us to keep looking. Some people tried to stop this relationship because to them, it did not […]
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