The evidence that the pathologist showed the jury and audience gave insight to the Jury. He said that the tissue found had a scar that was on Cora’s body. 5) What do modern forensic scientists find when they examine samples of the remains. They found out that the remains did not match the DNA of Cora’s family, and that it wasn’t even the same sex as her, It was a males DNA. 6) What other evidence linked Crippen to the remains in the cellar?
Facts about the Case Caylee was a two year old girl who lived with her mother Casey and her grandparents George and Cindy. Her father remains unknown to the public. On July 15, 2008, Cindy calls the police to request the arrest of Casey on suspicion of theft of their family car and money. She also reports that Caylee was missing for thirty-one days and that her daughter’s car smelled like there was a decomposing body in it. When questioned, Casey admits that Caylee was missing for more than thirty days.
What physical evidence was related to the case? The main physical evidence used to solve this case was the biological DNA evidence from the vaginal swabs from the three elderly women who had been raped. (Saferstein, R. 2009) 4. What was the outcome of the case? In April, 2001 convicted-offender database got what was called a “cold-hit” because the perpetrator of the crime had been convicted of shooting at a residence that was occupied, which in North Carolina requires that the persons DNA be placed in the criminal database.
It was DNA evidence that led to a conviction in the 1998 murder case of 10-year-old Anna Palmer who was attacked and killed outside of her own front door in Salt Lake City. The crime was heinous, and included multiple stab wounds to her body, but following the crime, investigators had no witnesses, little evidence, and no apparent suspects, the news station reports. However, in 2009, forensic analysts were called in to assist in the case, and they decided to examine the girl’s fingernails for DNA samples. Using visible and alternative light sources to look for DNA not belonging to the girl, they made a hit, and matched it to a man named Matthew Brock, who had lived a block away at the time of the her murder and was age nineteen then. Brock was already in prison serving a ten year sentence for a sex related crime with a child, and he pled guilty in 2011 to an aggravated murder charge in the death of Anna Palmer and is now in prison for life.
On July 4th, 1954, the body of Marilyn Sheppard, the wife of successful neurosurgeon Sam Sheppard, was found in her lakefront home near Cleveland, Ohio. Right away the main suspect was her husband Sam Sheppard. Months later, Sheppard was convicted of second- degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Sheppard however ended up serving a mere ten years of the sentence because he was released due to the absence of due process during his trial. However there was never conclusive evidence that would prove Sheppard to be guilty or innocent.
With the abundance amont of evidence against Casey, should she still be considered innocent until proven guilty? Caylee Marie Anthony born August 9, 2005 and died around June 2008 was a two year old little girl who was reported missing in Orlando, Florida, in July 2008, and whose remains were found in a wooded area near her home in December 2008. Caylee lived with her mother ,Casey and her grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony. Caylee was reported missing to 911 by Cindy, who said she had not seen Caylee for 31 days and that Casey’s car smelled like a dead body. She said Casey had given varied explanations as to Caylee’s whereabouts and finally amitted that she had not seen her daughter for weeks.
Uma Opee worked at a music store within walking distance of her apartment. She had a previous criminal record that included shoplifting, drug possession and sale, assault, and disorderly conduct. Uma completed court-ordered rehabilitation just 2 months before her death. The coroner determined that the victim was stabbed 13 times and bled to death at approximately 11:45 p.m. the evening of October 18th. Cuts and bruises were found on the victim’s body as well as skin particles under her fingernails, signifying a struggle had occurred prior to her death.
The book is by Sally M . Walker it was published at carolrhoda books in 2009 and the book has 144 pages. The book is about a fragile skeleton that had been buried there for four hundred years. "He was about fifteen years old boy who grave had been discovered by Dr. Douglas Owsley who was trying to figure out what happened to him and how he died. It also about how forensic scientists were using remains and bones of people and solving crimes to see how they died when they died and was it an accidental death, a suicide, or a murder.
The body of the victim was found with pills in hand and on the table in front of her, a laptop open with an apparent suicide note on screen. The victim’s home was in disarray when she was found which tends to be a sign of a struggle. With that being said, there were no markings on the victim’s body that leads me to believe that there was a struggle. Although the victim’s sister claims she was a neat freak, which doesn’t rule out the thought of a struggle. The neighbor claims that he saw the victim’s boyfriend speeding out of her driveway two days prior to her body being discovered.
There was little forensic clues as to who murdered these people, but a former Texas Ranger Stuart Dowell, who originally work on the case suspected a man called Mr. Mankins and found a finger nail at the scene of the crime, which by expert opinion found that the finger nail belonged to him. These were however only confirmed by how the fingernail unique markings matched up to the finger nail of the suspect. With this evidence Mr. Mankins was found guilty of the murders and the public was happy. However, on an appeal by Mr. Mankins the fingernail matching was found to be inconclusive. During the case a forensic scientist Rhonda Roby, a world renowned expert in DNA was asked to run a DNA test on the fingernail used to originally convict Mr. Mankins.