Karla Brown Case Study

On November 30, 1984, a 13-year old girl named Candace Derksen went missing on her way home from her school. After a massive search for Candace which spanned almost two months, her frozen body was found on January 17, 1985, tied up in a storage shed. After over 20 years of the case remaining unsolved, police charged Mark Edward Grant, a career criminal and sex offender, with the murder of Candace Derksen on May 16, 2007. Police were able to make the arrest based on previously untested DNA evidence discovered at the shed where Candace was found, which they claimed pointed to Grant. (The Canadian Press) Grant was convicted of second-degree murder by a jury on February 18, 2011.

On a cool day in Salt Lake City Utah, Gary "Green River Killer" Ridgway was born. July 7th 1982 was a day that would start the change of history in forensic science, this was the day waitress Amina Agisheff would leave for work and never be found alive again. This event started a killing spree that stretched potentially 19 grueling years. The very next day Ridgway kills Wendy Coffield a runaway teen. About one month later Debra Estes reported a man in a blue and white pickup truck who offered the girl a lift but then brandished a pistol and forced her to pleasure him sexually.

The case I pick was about Chad Heins. He was wrongfully convicted of murdering his sister-in-law in northern Florida. Chad Heins was exonerated on December 4, 2007, due to DNA evidence proving that another man committed the crime. On April 17, 1994, Tina Heins was brutally stabbed to death. Chad lived with his sister-in-law and brother Jeremy.

Detectives later found evidence that she was sexually assaulted. On the 28’Th Mary Mullen was found killed in her home. On the 30’Th Nina Nichols body was found. Nicholas was found with her legs wide open and something tied around her neck like the other victims. That same day the body of Helen Bake, she had suffered stabs to her genital area and had her clothing tiedaround her neck.

This corpse, however, had likely been dead for far longer, and his skin was covered in the same chemical burn as the Lady of the Lake from 1934”(Casale). The second half of this double murder helped put the pieces together and connect a previous important murder. The male of this murder could not be identified, however it contributed to finding Dolezal for both murders including others as well. It is important to recognize these murders because it is vital in the

In September of 1961, a woman from District of Columbia had an intruder break into her apartment. While the invader of the home was there, they had taken her wallet, and also raped the woman. During the investigation of the crime, the police had found some latent fingerprints in the apartment. The police then established and processed the prints. The prints were then connected back to 16 year old Morris A. Kent.

Unsolved Murders of Oklahoma Summer James American History Coach Baker November 13, 2014 The Unsolved Murders of Oklahoma! In 1977, late April, At Oklahoma’s Camp Scott a councilor returned from a training session and found her stuff strewn. Her doughnuts were gone but there was a paper inside of her empty doughnut box.

When two more bodies continued the killing spree in the spring of 1980 and a 7-year-old girl had been reported missing, the FBI was called in and a profiler was assigned to work on the case as well. After this the killer changed his MO dumping the bodies into the Chattahoochee River and this allowed for the search to become confined to the bridges in the area that went across the

To start, The Black dahlia murder till this very day is one of L.A’s oldest cold cases to date. On January, 15, 1947, A local resident finds a severed body of a 22 year old woman named Elizabeth Short (Newton 25). Later, Investigators found that Short had been taken and killed somewhere else, washed and drained of blood, and then discarded in a vacant lot. (Newton 35).

The man told her that no one would help her because she was black. The man was Willie Jackson and was convicted due to the bite marks left on her body and the teeth were replicated and matched. He was later released due to the semen in her underpants not matching his.

When found, her body was unrecognisable according to the Police Officer in charge of the investigation, Inspector Wayne King. Within three days (Thursday 26) of the body being discovered,

The killings began in the summer of 1984 when the first known murder of 79 year old Jennie Vincow occurred. The stabbing murder and sexual assault occurred outside of her home. It took a while before the police found out who was behind the killings due to the clues not being revealing enough at the crime scene towards the start. A shoe print was the only clue that the police had at first. A lot of the crimes done were very similar (i.e. murder and rape) causing the police to think that they all could perhaps be related.

Four of the victims all were connected to Eastern Michigan University, strangling was involved in four out of five of the case. All the victims were white, they all had brown hair and all the bodies were found very easily. This led the police to believe that the killer wanted his victims to be found. Mutilation of the victims was also a similarity. Hundreds of tips were given to the agencies however they all ended up being loss causes.

The next day the police used the description to search the skating rink hoping to find the assailant. They identified Anthony Powell, despite the fact that he had a full head of hair and a full beard. His picture was taken and the victim picked him out of a photo lineup and he was later convicted (Possley, n.d.). It wasn’t until 2002 that the case was reopened to examine the DNA in the case against that of Anthony Powell. The victim claimed she also had sex with her boyfriend before the rape, so both Anthony and her previous boyfriend were tested using DNA fingerprinting to check for a match.

The police could not ignore them because law enforcement was not providing any information to the community. There were two additional bodies of young African Americans children who were found in the spring of 1980, and another child became missing. The FBI was then sent in to assist in the case because there were bodies of African-American victims begin turning up in wooded areas. The break that law enforcement needed came when the perpetrator changed where they were disposing of the bodies, which most of the murdered bodies were found in the woods. But bodies started showing up in the Chattahoochee River in 1981.