investigation
Whodunnit, and why? All about criminal investigations and the forensic methods used to search for clues and collect evidence to get to the bottom of the crime.
Heist
On March 18th, 1990, two men posing as policemen overcame the two night watchmen at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and walked out the door with 13 pieces of artwork valued at millions of dollars. To this day, it remains the largest single theft of art in history, and the museum still offers a $10 million dollar reward for the safe return of the artwork, or a portion of the reward for information leading to the return of the stolen works. An additional reward of $100,000 has been offered for the return of a Napoleonic era flagpole finial which was also taken that night.(1)
By Natalie Wilkinson5 years ago in Criminal
The People of The State of California VS Orenthal James Simpson-An Unsolved Murder
I'll never forget going down to the main floor waiting room at Cottage Hospital in Galesburg Illinois on a warm summer day in June of 1994. I was there to visit my great-grandmother and desperately needed a break from family squabbling. In the waiting area I, like those already there, was distracted by the ongoing car chase playing out nationally. Knowing that it was unusual for a car chase to be covered coast to coast I stopped and listened to the reporters, amazed by what I heard; the Los Angeles Police were chasing down O.J. Simpson as a suspect in his ex-wife's murder.
By Jason Ray Morton 5 years ago in Criminal
The Boston Strangler
Anna Slesers, an immigrant from Latvia lived in Boston at 77 Gainsborough Street. She was 55 years old and worked as a seamstress. Having finished dinner on the evening of June 14, 1962, she saw that she had enough time to take a bath before her son Juris arrived to pick her up for the Latvian memorial services held at her church that night. She put on the opera music of Tristan und Isolde and went into the bathroom. When Juris arrived he got no answer when he knocked on his mother’s door and becoming worried forced the door open. He found his mother lying on the bathroom floor with the cord of her bathrobe around her neck. Juris telephoned the police and his sister in Maryland to inform them of this tragic “suicide.”
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Criminal
My God, That's Kimberly
Lori Erica Kennedy Ruff died by suicide on Christmas Eve, 2010. For six years after she died, nobody had any idea who she really was. Lori had stolen the identity of a two-year-old who died in 1971. She used the child's birth certificate to change her name, and her true identity remained unknown even to her husband.
By Melissa Bezborotko 5 years ago in Criminal
Police Dumped Ta'Naja Barnes Remains; Thought it Was Meth
Summary- Dar’tavius Barnes claims Springfield police desecrated and spilled the cremains of Ta’Naja Barnes during a traffic stop. The cops believed the urn contained cocaine or methamphetamine. Ta’Naja was killed by her mother and her boyfriend in 2019.
By Criminal Matters5 years ago in Criminal
How Renowed Serial Killer H.H. Holmes Was Caught?
During the summer of 1886, a man names Herman Webster Mudgett settles into Chicago. He was a charming conman, and though some did find him off putting, most took a quick liking to him. Mudgett's relocation wouldn't be the only change he'd make, it is here where Mudgett takes the name Dr. H.H. Holmes and begins to run a pharmacy.
By Sumit Kumar Singh5 years ago in Criminal
