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.
Toyin Salau a Black Lives Matter activist who said she was Sexually Assaulted found Dead
The City of Tallahassee Police Department issued a missing person report on June 9th, 2020 asking the general public to help them with any information about the whereabouts of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau. Toyin as her friends call her was young-19 years old, very talented, and articulate, an active and vocal member of the Black Lives Matter movement. BLM attracts large membership from young people and middle-aged Americans disgusted with systemic injustices and racism in America particularly in the law enforcement arena of Police Departments across the United States. Minorities are often profiled and may be pulled over for unspecified reasons for no just cause. Some minorities have become victims of police brutality and many have paid with their lives.
By Paul Oranika6 years ago in Criminal
Hear My Cry From The Other Side
The moment the world stops. You can hear yourself trying to catch your breath and your heart is pounding out of your chest. A moment a father screams out, "Oh, God No, Not My Baby" when the police came knocking at the door. It is a moment that you cannot explain or fully paint a picture of a parent's heart being ripped out of their chest. The breath was taken from you to try and grasp what was just said. Trying to remain in your body when you feel like an empty shell. Our hearts stopped beating the moment she drew her last breath, but we did not know it until the news broke and her babies were without a mom.
By Scarlett Price6 years ago in Criminal
Remains found confirmed to be that of two Missing Idaho Kids: Who on Earth would kill these two innocent Kids?
Authorities in Idaho have confirmed that remains discovered last Saturday June 13 in a yard were those of missing Idaho Children, Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan. The two children ages 7 and 17 went missing in September 2019. A frantic search for the children began shortly afterwards and last week human remains were found which authorities said were those of Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan.
By Paul Oranika6 years ago in Criminal
George Floyd
DAY TWO & DAY THREE (5/26/2020-5/27/2020) Being black in America, it’s hard for some to express even the hard parts of black culture that white America loves, but they too hate to reveal the hard part of enjoying a lifestyle they despise the people. As black people, there is a constant threat to black lives, the life of children, and the life of black men and women’s lives. Also, never forgetting our other minorities that this happens to daily as well, and it’s not in the media. Grateful that George Floyds’ murder filmed that day. We all have witnessed video footage means very little—however, the impact of watching public execution. The result of the protest is a result of an outcry from we the people. Not just for police brutality against black people, but hurt from watching a man beg for his life, the people
By Nia on Air6 years ago in Criminal
Who killed Brittany Stykes in 2013?
August 28, 2013 is a day David and Mary Dodson won’t ever forget. David was celebrating his birthday and expecting a visit from his 22-year-old daughter Brittany Stykes and his granddaughter Aubrey. Brittany and Aubrey never arrived.
By Marc Hoover6 years ago in Criminal
Who Killed My Dad? Part 2
Revisiting a murder, in this case, my father’s murder is not an easy thing to do. There must be something deep inside of me that wants to set the record straight. Usually when a loved one dies their secrets are buried in the ground with them, never to resurface. We want to remember the dead fondly in coloured portraits or grainy black and white photographs of yesterday. Imagine years later, standing in your sister’s kitchen and being handed something as simple as a faded letter, about the death of your father, dark memories come floating back. How do you deal with pain hidden-away since a child about a winter’s nightmare, in a hotel car park, a long time ago? It’s a mystery, like a classic crime novel only with the final chapter ripped from the book. This is my father’s story and also mine. Because believe it or not I was there, just a kid drinking raspberry lemonade.
By Noel Anderson6 years ago in Criminal
The detective ch 1
The rose-scented candles seemed like royalty in the middle of the small cherry table. Were they chess pieces they would represent the queen, a barbaric one dressed in wine red silk from the most shrewd yet talented worms. They lay innocuously amongst many abandoned books, thrown haphazardly around the table and lingered in a prismatic shape, wary of the coffee strains. If you asked them they were the stars and the moon, shining like a precious jewel in the limelight. How very portentous of them!
By Roza Maria Kerim6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Murdered Man Just Wanted to be a Playboy
A man in blue silk pajamas laid out on the floor motionless and unresponsive. The man on the deck claimed the name Serge Rubinstein. This financial mastermind also lived life as a playboy and denizen of Café society. In his years he had generated a fortune of at least a million dollars and almost as many enemies.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Harvard professor indicted for lying to federal investigators about China funding
In a recent post I briefly talked about government investigations and their importance. I also outlined some things individuals and companies should do if an attorney has not yet been retained, but an investigation presents itself.
By Michael D. Ross6 years ago in Criminal
The Mysterious Sodder Children Disappearance
It was the winter night of Monday, December 24, 1945, in the rural town of Fayetteville, West Virginia. George and Jennie Sodder had just commenced minor Christmas Eve celebrations with their some nine children, an infant included, all of whom resided in the home together, with the exception of one absent son away serving in the military in World War II at the time. Five of these nine children asked their parents to stay up past their normal bedtime hour to play with their new Christmas toys, given to them by their older sister. Consenting to the idea, the Sodder parents went to bed, only to be woken at around 1 a.m. to their home ablaze.
By Angela Rose6 years ago in Criminal
Another Tragedy, Another Missed Opportunity
Scenes from America’s latest racial outrage: A police officer, surrounded by his fellow officers and a watching crowd, kneels on the neck of a black man named George Floyd until he passes out. By the time the ambulance arrives, it’s too late. George pleads with the officers to stop the pressure on his neck, as does the crowd. But it falls on deaf ears.
By Grant Patterson6 years ago in Criminal
