US/MD/Ocean City – Police on Wednesday finished a three-day search of the property of a woman accused of hiding four dead fetuses, but planned to leave an officer at the home to prevent retaliation against her family.
Investigators found no more human remains in the run-down home of Christy Freeman, 37, who is accused of causing her 26-week-old fetus to be stillborn last week. Read More
US/MD/Ocean City – Police with cadaver-sniffing dogs, shovels and a backhoe dug Monday outside the home of a woman charged with killing her baby boy, widening a grim search that has turned up four tiny sets of remains.
None of the remains appeared to be those of full-term babies, police said, including those of the most newly delivered infant, a boy, who was found in a vanity below the bathroom sink in Christy Freeman’s home. Read More
US/Fort Myers/FL – As Fort Myers police try to identify the victims whose remains were found in a wooded area off Arcadia Street on March 23, they’re hoping information gathered by a forensic anthropologist and forensic dentist will help.
The remains are all those of white men between 18 and 49, said Heather Walsh-Haney, a forensic anthropologist from Florida Gulf Coast University, who police called into the case.
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US/Fort Myers/FL – The skeletal remains found in Fort Myers in March may have been those of men who died as the result of criminal activity between 1980 and 2000.But having said that, Fort Myers police Chief Hilton Daniels on Friday said no cause of death had been determined for any of the victims. Read More
FR/Reims – Self-confessed French serial killer Michel Fourniret has been ordered to stand trial for the murder of seven young women in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2001, a source close to the case said yesterday.
Fourniret is to be tried along with his wife and suspected accomplice Monique Olivier, 58, in Charleville Mezieres, a town in the French Ardennes region bordering Belgium, late this year or early next year. Read More
US/Montrose/CO – Wanted: The identity of Humboldt County Jane Doe, believed to have been the first victim of convicted serial killer Wayne Adam Ford.
The torso of the woman, thought to be between 20 and 30 years old, was found in a California slough in 1997. Though in 2006 Ford was convicted of her murder and the gruesome deaths of three other women — Tina Gibbs, Lanett White and Patricia Tamez — no one has been able to positively identify Doe. Read More
