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Photos from Oakland County Child Killer Suspect’s Suicide Scene
on January 12, 2012 at 11:27 am in Forensics, Unsubs by Brian Combs | 4 CommentsYesterday, I reported on developments in the Oakland County Child Killer case. One of the developments was that the family of one of the victims has released photos from the suicide of suspect Christopher Busch. Now we have the photos. Several of them have portions blackened out. I assume that…
Continue reading...Dean Corll Victim Identified
on December 1, 2011 at 2:15 pm in Forensics, Serial Killers by Brian Combs | No CommentsForensic scientists in Harris County have identified Roy Eugene Bunton as a victim of Dean Corll. Bunton was last seen as he was leaving for work at Northwest Mall in Houston. Conflicting reports have this happening in either 1971 or 1972, when he was 17 or 18 years old. Bunton’s…
Continue reading...Victim of John Wayne Gacy Identified
on November 29, 2011 at 2:51 pm in Forensics, Serial Killers by Brian Combs | No CommentsDNA evidence has determined one of the unidentified remains of John Wayne Gacy to be William George Bundy. A 19-year-old construction worker, William disappeared in 1976. Family members have long suspected he was one of Gacy’s victims. The Cook County Sheriff Office issued a plea for DNA samples from the…
Continue reading...Alleged Victim of John Wayne Boyer Identified
on September 14, 2011 at 11:42 am in Forensics, Serial Killers, Victimology by Brian Combs | No CommentsThe badly decomposed remains of a woman were found in a wooded area near Interstate 20 in Darlington, South Carolina on August 3, 2000. No identification was found on the body, and cause of death was determined to be strangulation. Eleven years later, the remains have finally been identified. The…
Continue reading...Judge Rules Against David Leonard Wood’s Petition
on August 21, 2011 at 10:21 am in Forensics, Serial Killers by Brian Combs | No CommentsDavid Leonard Wood has lost an appeal to have his conviction over-turned by an expert review of the DNA evidence of his trial. Judge Bert Richardson ruled: The court finds that the results of the DNA analysis do not establish that, had the results been available during the trial of…
Continue reading...Ted Bundy’s DNA to be Uploaded Today
on August 5, 2011 at 9:19 am in Forensics, Serial Killers by Brian Combs | 5 CommentsAs previously reported, Ted Bundy’s DNA has been sampled and is being uploaded to the national DNA database. Reports are that this will happen today. Bundy confessed to thirty murders before he died, and is suspected of having committed many more. Once convicted, many serial killers confess to murders they…
Continue reading...Ted Bundy to be added to FBI DNA Database
on August 1, 2011 at 3:46 pm in Forensics, Serial Killers by Brian Combs | 1 CommentIf you were to ask most devotees of true crime whether Ted Bundy’s DNA was in the federal database, he or she would most likely say “yes”. And he or she would be wrong. Bundy’s DNA has never been added to the FBI’s DNA database, but that is about to…
Continue reading...Forensic Studies 005: Terry Blair
on June 14, 2011 at 7:26 am in Forensic Studies, Forensics, Serial Killers by Michelle Plummer | 2 CommentsTerry Blair became a serial killer after killing seven people before being incarcerated for the rest of his life (Dolan Media Newswires. 2008). Blair grew up in a household of troubled individuals who had too much of an influence on Blair due to the fact that he committed these family…
Continue reading...Forensic Studies 004: The Black Widow
on May 24, 2011 at 7:10 am in Forensic Studies, Forensics, Serial Killers by Michelle Plummer | No CommentsLydia Trueblood got the name The Black Widow for poisoning five of her husbands, her brother-in-law and her baby girl, all for life insurance money (Montaldo, C. 2011). Lydia Trueblood was less than attractive yet something about her seemed to capture the attention of men. At the age of 19,…
Continue reading...DNA Sample from Anthony Sowell Lost
on May 21, 2011 at 9:29 am in Forensics, Law Enforcement, Serial Killers by Brian Combs | No CommentsAnthony Sowell gave a DNA sample when he was in prison in the 1990s. Unfortunately, that sample was lost. It was sent to a private lab in Fairfax, Virginia, but was never returned to the State of Ohio. Said Eve Mueller, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Mike DeWine: I don’t…
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