Missing and presumed murdered
Article Abstract:
Lou Allen Goettsch's disappearance and probable murder exemplify the challenges of investigating, prosecuting, and defending a murder case without a body. Roughly 21,000 people in the US are now listed as missing and presumed murdered, often despite the best efforts of police and even the FBI's National Crime Information Center. Goettsch's relatives did not call police for about 2 months after his Mar 1981 disappearance, and an effort to try Roney Harper, who confessed to murder in 1993 but recanted, collapsed.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1995
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Fingerprints exonerate convict; on second try, automated system finds another suspect
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James Newsome's own work and an automated fingerprint matching system that failed him once finally succeeded together in freeing him from prison recently. Convicted in 1981 of murdering Edward Cohen, Newsome focused on the fingerprint evidence as key to proving his innocence. His fourth lawyer, Professor Richard Kling of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, persuaded police to re-run a comparison through their Automated Fingerprint Identification System. It failed to find a match in 1991, but succeeded in 1995.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1995
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Confronting a dark past: recently released Miss. files aid retrial of Klansman
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Mississippi released the records of its former agency, the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, in 1988 after 21 years of legal conflicts over their release. Prosecutors believed the records would aide in convicting Samuel H. Bowers of the 1966 murder of NAACP official Vernon Dahmer. The records were instrumental in the 1994 conviction of Byron De La Beckwith VI for the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1998
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