New DNA Evidence Solved 36-Year-Old La Mesa Cold-Case Murder
Police closed the case in 1984 and it went unsolved until 2017, when the department reopened the case and conducted a full review of the evidence, December 16, 2019New DNA evidence helped La Mesa police solved a nearly 36-year-old cold-case murder, officials announced...
Did OC Sheriff Don Barnes sit on evidence audit to further his 2018 election campaign?
He calls the charge by an assistant public defender ‘scandalous conjecture,’ insisting he did not hide findings from the damaging audit December 30, 2019An internal audit showing Orange County sheriff’s deputies systemically mishandled evidence...
Did OC Sheriff Don Barnes sit on evidence audit to further his 2018 election campaign?
He calls the charge by an assistant public defender ‘scandalous conjecture,’ insisting he did not hide findings from the damaging audit December 30, 2019An internal audit showing Orange County sheriff’s deputies systemically mishandled evidence...
Snatched beer mug, genealogy website help Douglas County detectives make arrest in 1980 murder of college student
Detectives used online genealogy databases and help from private companies to wade through Clanton’s unorthodox family and numerous aliases to identify him as the suspect. December 28, 2019A secretly snagged beer mug — and the DNA it carried — was the final...
