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…
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.…
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.…
A woman of mystery Reprinted Chester Times by Steven Hoffman There is a one dollar bill on Eileen Law’s desk. Each morning, when the private investigator arrives at her Kennett Square office, she sees the dollar bill and she thinks about Toni Lee Sharpless, the nurse and mother who disappeared without a trace on…