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Whodunnit, and why? All about criminal investigations and the forensic methods used to search for clues and collect evidence to get to the bottom of the crime.
Types of Field Sobriety Tests(FSTs) And How They Factor In DUI Cases
According to California law on implied consent, any driver who has been stopped at DUI checkpoint should agree to be tested. If you refuse the tests, the arresting officer is obligated to explain the consequences of refusing a test. The tests conducted are to test whether you are impaired. One of the major tests done when police pull a driver over is the field sobriety tests.Forms Of Field Sobriety Tests
By Nancy Ahuja6 years ago in Criminal
The Brittany Phillips homicide
I recently spoke to a distraught mother from Oklahoma named Maggie Zingman. She is haunted by the death of Brittany Phillips, her only daughter. I assume that people think she should “move on” with her life. After speaking to so many people with murdered loved ones, it’s a common theme. But unless someone has experienced the murder of a loved one, it’s impossible to understand the grief. And the pain is even worse when the victim is a son or daughter. When people die, we never “get over it,” we just “deal with it.”
By Marc Hoover6 years ago in Criminal
Unsolved: Who killed Amber Hagerman?
One morning before I went to work, my cell phone buzzed like an oversized hornet. Obviously, it’s important. I picked up my phone and saw an Amber Alert. My phone had told me that someone with bad intentions had snatched a child, pulled him into a car and had driven off into the darkness.
By Marc Hoover6 years ago in Criminal
The secret of the Nigerian con artist
I confess the workings of the criminal mind has always been something of a fascination for me. I am fairly confident that my interest in such matters is not based on voyerism or unrecognized pruient impulses. I have always understood that the origins of criminality are related to unmet psychological needs as they are to operant conditioning or genetic factors.
By frederick Hurst6 years ago in Criminal
Toyin Salau a Black Lives Matter activist who said she was Sexually Assaulted found Dead
The City of Tallahassee Police Department issued a missing person report on June 9th, 2020 asking the general public to help them with any information about the whereabouts of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau. Toyin as her friends call her was young-19 years old, very talented, and articulate, an active and vocal member of the Black Lives Matter movement. BLM attracts large membership from young people and middle-aged Americans disgusted with systemic injustices and racism in America particularly in the law enforcement arena of Police Departments across the United States. Minorities are often profiled and may be pulled over for unspecified reasons for no just cause. Some minorities have become victims of police brutality and many have paid with their lives.
By Paul Oranika6 years ago in Criminal
Hear My Cry From The Other Side
The moment the world stops. You can hear yourself trying to catch your breath and your heart is pounding out of your chest. A moment a father screams out, "Oh, God No, Not My Baby" when the police came knocking at the door. It is a moment that you cannot explain or fully paint a picture of a parent's heart being ripped out of their chest. The breath was taken from you to try and grasp what was just said. Trying to remain in your body when you feel like an empty shell. Our hearts stopped beating the moment she drew her last breath, but we did not know it until the news broke and her babies were without a mom.
By Scarlett Price6 years ago in Criminal
Remains found confirmed to be that of two Missing Idaho Kids: Who on Earth would kill these two innocent Kids?
Authorities in Idaho have confirmed that remains discovered last Saturday June 13 in a yard were those of missing Idaho Children, Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan. The two children ages 7 and 17 went missing in September 2019. A frantic search for the children began shortly afterwards and last week human remains were found which authorities said were those of Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan.
By Paul Oranika6 years ago in Criminal
George Floyd
DAY TWO & DAY THREE (5/26/2020-5/27/2020) Being black in America, it’s hard for some to express even the hard parts of black culture that white America loves, but they too hate to reveal the hard part of enjoying a lifestyle they despise the people. As black people, there is a constant threat to black lives, the life of children, and the life of black men and women’s lives. Also, never forgetting our other minorities that this happens to daily as well, and it’s not in the media. Grateful that George Floyds’ murder filmed that day. We all have witnessed video footage means very little—however, the impact of watching public execution. The result of the protest is a result of an outcry from we the people. Not just for police brutality against black people, but hurt from watching a man beg for his life, the people
By Nia on Air6 years ago in Criminal
Who killed Brittany Stykes in 2013?
August 28, 2013 is a day David and Mary Dodson won’t ever forget. David was celebrating his birthday and expecting a visit from his 22-year-old daughter Brittany Stykes and his granddaughter Aubrey. Brittany and Aubrey never arrived.
By Marc Hoover6 years ago in Criminal
Who Killed My Dad? Part 2
Revisiting a murder, in this case, my father’s murder is not an easy thing to do. There must be something deep inside of me that wants to set the record straight. Usually when a loved one dies their secrets are buried in the ground with them, never to resurface. We want to remember the dead fondly in coloured portraits or grainy black and white photographs of yesterday. Imagine years later, standing in your sister’s kitchen and being handed something as simple as a faded letter, about the death of your father, dark memories come floating back. How do you deal with pain hidden-away since a child about a winter’s nightmare, in a hotel car park, a long time ago? It’s a mystery, like a classic crime novel only with the final chapter ripped from the book. This is my father’s story and also mine. Because believe it or not I was there, just a kid drinking raspberry lemonade.
By Noel Anderson6 years ago in Criminal
The detective ch 1
The rose-scented candles seemed like royalty in the middle of the small cherry table. Were they chess pieces they would represent the queen, a barbaric one dressed in wine red silk from the most shrewd yet talented worms. They lay innocuously amongst many abandoned books, thrown haphazardly around the table and lingered in a prismatic shape, wary of the coffee strains. If you asked them they were the stars and the moon, shining like a precious jewel in the limelight. How very portentous of them!
By Roza Maria Kerim6 years ago in Criminal
