Nov 19, 2012
Stephen Farrow
In early 2012 two sadistic, purposeless murders shocked Great Britain like few others have in terms of public revulsion.
by Ben Johnson
The sentencing of a British man who perpetrated two of the most sadistic murders the UK has ever seen took place in...
Nov 13, 2012
Joyce "Winsie" Hau
In January of 2012, a 14-year-old “hit man” stabbed to death a 15-year-old girl in her home in Arnhem, Holland for comments she made about her best friend and her boyfriend on Facebook.
by Marie Kusters-McCarthy
The Netherlands, also called...
Nov 12, 2012
George Kaufman
The first criminal investigation in Australia – and one of the first in the world – to use DNA to solve a case.
by Liz Porter
The affluent middle-class suburb of North Caulfield, in the southern Australian city of Melbourne, is the kind of area that sends...
Nov 5, 2012
In 1983, over 100 antique clocks – worth millions of dollars – were stolen from the L.A.MayerMuseum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem. It took 25 years for the clocks to find their way back home. Sometimes it just takes time to solve a crime.
by Deborah Rubin Fields
Have you ever...
Jul 3, 2012
July 3, 2012 An edited extract from Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science – available for Kindle in the United States on amazon.com. Hard copies available at www.panmacillan.com.au by Liz Porter Mark Chrystie relished the challenge of hunting criminals with...
Jun 11, 2012
The Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa was the world’s most famous and valuable painting, yet its security depended on four ordinary hooks and the locked door of the museum – the Louvre in Paris – where it was on display. All that would be needed to take it down from the wall and to...
Jun 4, 2012
John "Babbacombe" Lee
After three attempts to hang John Lee at Exeter Prison in Devon, England, the hanging was called off. Years later he was paroled.
by Robert Walsh
It is February 23, 1885. The place is the coach house of Exeter Prison, Devon...
May 21, 2012
Farah Jama (L)
Farah Jama, a 21-year-old Somali immigrant in Australia was convicted – based on contaminated DNA evidence – of raping a woman he had never met at a bar in Melbourne he had never been to. His exoneration, after 16 months in prison, led to important reforms in...
Apr 16, 2012
Laxmibai Karve, a 45-year-old widow from Poona, was poisoned by her doctor on the train to Bombay.
by Randor Guy
The slow-crawling passenger night train from Poona to Bombay pulled into Victoria Terminus, Bombay after a weary stop-at-every station journey soon after dawn....
Apr 9, 2012
Rhys Jones Teenage gang warfare in Liverpool claimed the life of an 11-year-old boy who was shot to death by a stray bullet on his way home. by Joe Purshouse On August 22, 2007, 11-year-old Rhys Jones was shot in the back by a stray bullet in the midst of a gang war that...
