Crime Scene Reconstruction and Blood Stain Pattern Analysis: The Case of Christopher Vaughn By Bill Clutter Director of Investigations, “Investigating Innocence” The Scene of the Crime Around 5:20 a.m. on June 14, 2007, a man driving to work along the frontage road of Interstate 55 south of Joliet, Illinois encountered Christopher Vaughn, 32, limping…
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THE KYRON HORMAN CASE – UPDATED! By Matt Johnson Search has narrowed nine years after the 7-year-old disappeared Unsolved Magazine: What happened to Kyron Horman on June 4, 2010? Matt Johnson: Kyron Richard Horman was excited to go to school that day because it was the science fair at Skyline Elementary School in Portland…
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Beyond the Wall of Fear By Ash Saunders A Conversation with Kathy Kleiner on Ted Bundy This is the story of Kathy Kleiner, one of the few survivors of a deranged killer: Ted Bundy. She was not just the girl next door, nor just a college student growing up in the 1960s and ’70s.…
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Investigative Journalist Profile Aphrodite Jones is a best-selling true crime author and journalist who uses her reporter’s hunch to investigate and write about murder. Through her eyes, Jones brings readers inside murder cases as she explores dark motives and conveys the emotional truths hiding behind the tragedy. Over the past two decades, Jones has written…
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CITIZEN DETECTIVE Danielle Burch is a citizen detective living in Arizona. Originally from Wisconsin, Danielle went to Southeastern Academy in Orlando, Florida to pursue a career in travel and hospitality. She spent some time working at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios then returned to Wisconsin to be closer to family and became a travel…
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OBTAINING PUBLIC RECORDS By Steve Vardakis The People’s Right To Know History of Government Business Becoming Public Information In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal” created a series of federal programs and reforms intended to bring immediate economic relief to the country. Under FDR’s administration, many agencies were born to oversee these programs.…
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National Parents Of Murdered Children, Inc.’s 33rd Annual National Conference By Danielle Rooney Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) held their 33rd Annual Conference on August 8-11, 2019, in Denver, Colorado. The conference was a great success with lots of tears, hugs, memory sharing, memory making and laughter. Yes, laughter. As shocking as that sounds,…
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TIPS FOR VICTIMS’ FAMILIES SEEKING MEDIA COVERAGE By: Caroline Lowe No one has seen the impact of heavy media coverage on a case more than Patty Wetterling. Her 11-year-old son, Jacob, was abducted at gunpoint in 1989 while biking with his younger brother and a friend near his home in rural St. Joseph, Minnesota. Jacob’s…
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FORENSIC STATEMENT ANALYSIS by Joe Koenig, CFE Author of the award-winning book “Getting the Truth” and “Getting the Truth: I Am D.B. Cooper” “The principles in this article will enable you to distinguish between good and poor denials – making you a better investigator and a better decision- maker.” – Joe Koenig What’s a…
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THE MULLENDORE MURDER By Mike Easterling If not for the circumstances, it could have been a perfectly enjoyable Sunday drive. On the morning of September 26, 1970, Gary Glanz, a 30-year-old private investigator from Tulsa, found himself headed north on U.S. Highway 75 through the Oklahoma countryside. It was a warm, clear day that…
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