In October 1989, a masked man in St. Joseph, Minnesota abducted Jacob Wetterling. In the days following his disappearance, authorities in Minnesota followed tens of thousands of tips, each of them providing little to no progress in the search for …
Some people dream their whole lives about becoming police detectives. In today’s world, it’s a pretty common prospect. Crime dramas fill the airwaves with countless dramatized portrayals of detective work. Slick haired curious detectives ooze an aura of charisma as …
Though there are many benefits to using laser 3D scanners in criminal investigations, timesaving takes the cake as the greatest benefit. Processing a crime scene is a lengthy ordeal that involves gathering data and preserving the findings. Long before evidence …
Beaverton, Oregon has been a target for out-of-state thieves who come to steal credit card numbers so they can sell the goods and gift cards they fraudulently obtain. Before local detectives got on the trail, the area was easy picking …
As of August 31, 2015, more than half of the homicides that occurred in Syracuse this year are still unsolved. Eighteen people were murdered so far in 2015, and suspects have been charged in seven of the cases. Eleven of …
Regrettably, child porn operations on the web know no boundaries and extend the world over. Australian detectives in a Queensland anti-pedophile taskforce targeted a global Internet bulletin board with 45,500 members. In a 10-month sting operation, the detectives identified users …
A defense attorney claimed that Christopher Gessner didn’t mean to kill his girlfriend, Teresa Lindt, when he used gasoline to set his Washington Township mobile home on fire with her in it in 2011. Police had responded to a domestic …
A Florida detective was fishing 20 miles offshore when he reeled in a bundle. Much to his shock, it contained 25 bricks of uncut cocaine. The cocaine had a street value of $2.5 million before it is cut, but once …
Following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore on April 27, violence in the city has spiked to levels not seen in 43 years. May was a bad month with 42 homicides, but July was even worse. …