On May 23, 1991, the victim, a social service worker, was found dead near her upstate New York farmhouse. According to Medical examiners she had been choked, stabbed, and beaten to death. The victim had also been bitten several times. Roy Brown was considered the prime suspect of the murder.
Just a year prior to the murder, Brown's daughter was placed into a residential care facility by the agency the victim had worked for. This infuriated Brown, causing an outburst of hostile phone calls toward the director of the social services agency. This resulted in Brown serving a short jail term. The murder occurring shortly after his release made Roy Brown a likely suspect.
During trial, the prosecution depended solely on the confirmation of the bite mark examiner who had stated the seven bite marks on the victim's body were "entirely consistent" with Brown. The prosecution had not uncovered that another analysis had analyzed the bite marks prier to the trial and had prohibited Brown as the cause. A defense professional stated that the six bite marks were inadequate for examination and the seventh excluded Brown because it had two more upper teeth than he had. The saliva from the shirt and bite imprint swabs were examined with uncertain results.
In 1995, Brown looked for testing on the bite mark swabs,
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Brown requested duplicates of his documents under the Freedom of Information Act after discovering a fire had demolished the majority of his court papers at his stepfather's home. He discovered records that hadn’t been revealed to the defense. These documents involved another man, Barry Bench. Bench’s behavior had been reportedly very suspicious around the time of the murder and during the beginning of the investigation. Bench was irritated at the victim who had been dating Bench’s brother two months before the murder because the farmhouse that she lived in had belonged to the Bench
Even when Michael’s new defense team, through the innocence project, found a crime that was eerily similar to the method of murder and subsequent events to the one that Michael was convicted of, the new prosecutor in Williamson County fought hard to keep DNA testing from taking place, even stating that they objected to the testing now because the defense hadn’t requested it before (Morton, 2014). There was further evidence of ineffectiveness in that the coroner who’d changed his estimated time of death between the autopsy and trial, had come under scrutiny for his findings in this case, as well as several others, with claims of gross errors “including one case where he came to the conclusion that a man who’d been stabbed in the back had committed suicide” (Morton, 2014). This was only one of the many injustices that were committed against Michael Morton throughout his trial. In August of 2006, the defense was finally granted permission to perform DNA testing on the items that had been taken from his wife’s body (Morton, 2014). Although this testing did not reveal any information about the guilty party, it did at least give Michael the knowledge that Chris was not sexually violated before or after her death (Morton,
Case Analysis. Prosecutor’s Case Against James Earl Ray: The prosecutors have enough efficient evidence in establishing guilt against James Earl Ray concerning the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. First, James Earl Ray was in close enough vicinity of the Lorraine Hotel to successfully fire a clear shot to kill Dr. King from only a block away. The location of Bessie Brewer’s boarding house was in the perfect position of being only a block away, in making the kill shot that killed Dr. King. Second, The high-power rifle with a scope mounted on it was in a bundle with a couple beer cans, the receipt, as well as the binoculars, all had fingerprints that belonged to Ray on them.
The fingerprints of Surratt and Anderson were both tied to crimes involved in this case. The defendants at trial were being convicted on two counts of second-degree murder. The state had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants had killed Cook and Kirby. Cook and Kirby were discovered in a container with a lid that was taped shut and painted over, this was known because of where the fingerprints were impressed. Although their bodies were found, no murder weapon was ever discovered by the autopsies performed showed Cook and Kirby were both killed with fatal gunshots.
n February of 1982 in Brooklyn, New York a woman was attacked by two men who were wearing masks. She was tied up, robbed, beaten and set on fire. She had survived the attack, but sustained multiple injuries, including injuries to her eyes. The victim believed her neighbor, Calvin Boyette, was one of the men who had assaulted her. She even pointed him out in a photo lineup.
Jami Bull Mr. Mollenger Forensics Science 23 February 2018 Power of Proof The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal organization that helps people prove their innocence when wrongfully convicted through new DNA testing. 70% of eyewitnesses misidentified and 45% involved misapplication of forensic science. (“DNA Exonerations in the United States.”)
Albert DeSalvo was born September 3, 1931 in Chelsea Massachusetts. Albert had a very rough upbringing, his father was an alcoholic and wife beater. He also had four siblings. In his early years he was in and out of prison for crime and violence. He also had a history of breaking and entering.
The evening of May 4th 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was sitting in her vehicle waiting for her husband when she was fatally shot. The primary suspect was her husband, Robert Blake. Robert Blake was well known in Hollywood for his acting career. Bonny Bakley had been married to Robert Blake for about 6 months. However, several sources discussed that their relationship seemed to be a rocky one, since Bonny was known to be a manipulative gold-digger and was suspected of trapping Blake into marrying her by having his child.
The Mysterious Death of Chandra Levy Many only hear about unsolved death cases on crime shows and movies. This is not the case for Chandra Levy. Chandra Levy, an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington D.C., mysteriously went missing in 2001. A year later she was found dead in a nearby park.
She parked her car a few apartments down from hers but when she got out of the car Winston Moseley came up to her with his hunting knife. She started to scream and run but Winston caught up with her and stabbed her twice. Then he drove away but not long after that he came back and stole 49$ out of her purse and stabbed her a couple more times before leaving again. She died shortly after on March 13, 1964. Did you noticed that no one called the police or tried to help her?
She wasn’t even far from home but she didn’t return home. Later her family called the police they searched the neighborhood but couldn’t find her, until two days later two teenagers spotted a body near the Rochester suburb of Chili. Months later the police ran into a dead end and Billboards around the Rochester area begged for information about her death, putting up a 6,000 dollar reward for any information but the case still went unsolved.
Black Dahlia Murder In 1947 the tragic loss of Elizabeth Short shocked many people all over the world. This wasn’t your typical murder, this murder had to have been planned out and thought about for a while before its happening. The “Black Dahlia Murder” is the biggest unsolved case in Los Angeles and is still an undergoing investigation. I have reason to believe that Dr. Gorge Hodel is the murderer behind the brutality of Elizabeth Short’s body.
On Friday evening, the body of teenager Robert "Bob" Sheldon was found at a park in eastern Tulsa, laying next to a fountain with a knife wound in his abdomen. Further evidence suggests that the Sheldon had been intoxicated. No arrests have been made yet, but police suspect that it was a gang-related crime. Investigators believe that more than one person of each party had been involved as well. One of Sheldon’s companions, who was questioned, Randy Adderson, did not prove to be much help for the investigators.
He found that Police procedures with regard to evidence referencing, police chain of custody and overall collection of evidence. He stated that the Queensland Police Force failed the most rudimentary collection protocols and this lead to confusion in the labelling of exhibits and their actual obtaining from the accused. He further pointed out that searches were conducted in a manner that exposed the primary and secondary crime scenes to contamination. A video of the Police search showed that none of the officers involved wore protective clothing, gloves or booties; that swab testing of the car showed that the officer involved in collection conducted the Sangur strip test and actually allowed his fingers to come in contact, thus providing a false positive indication for human blood, when it was noticed that he had a small cut on his finger; fingerprint collection was done before testing for human enzymes which also could have produced a false positive due to the chemical makeup of the powder used (the force used Magnapowder which has a metallic composition and this reacted with the test strips); photographs of the boot floor showed that none of the items were laid out on white protective paper. This would also have prevented cross contamination and enabled the collection of any evidence that fell from the boot.
While in prison, he requested copies of his case under the “Freedom of Information Act” due to the original copies he had were destroyed in a fire at his stepfather’s house. While examining the documents, he found multiple critical points of information that the defense never received. One of those documents he found referenced a man named Barry Bench, another suspect in the case. The documents stated that Barry bench was “acting oddly” around the time of the murder. A close family friend that lived with Bench at the time stated that he left the bar drunk and took an hour to get home; the bar was only a half a mile from his home (Santos).
First one said, that it matched Roy Browns bite marks. Second one said it couldn’t be him because he was missing two upper teeth and it had a full set of teeth on Sabina. This suggests that it could be him but also couldn’t be him with the bite marks. In conclusion the evidence that was provided were DNA samples and the bite