Crime pages, cold cases and hot trails
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Topic: Crime and Punishment
I recently came across an article in a newspaper that sung the praises of the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the character of one Sherlock Holmes. 
She wrote that, in this day and age of CSI's on tv from Miami to New York and Vegas and so much neon lit forensic work (imagine getting DNA samples processed the same day, right?) the writer suggested how refreshing it was to remember a sleuth without all of that hi-tech and relied on reason and deduction instead. (Oh here it is!:)But whats this?)
Despite this recently reviewed work of fiction, and new video games, and soon to be released movies, it has been publicized and at least strongly suggested recently in the news that Jack aka the Ripper was actually a media tabloid sensation creation and further, that the murders were done by lone individual men in the form or copy cat repeaters. Whether or not this has been advanced beyond plausible theory I couldnt tell you.
We can only hope that amidst all this mish mash and confluences of portended information, real hard working and dedicated individuals can use the real information to set the headlines straight and solve the cases for everyone involved.
Project Blackhawk was named after Chicago's NHL hockey team and was an investigation that focused on four suspected crime bosses who were selling Ecstasy and cocaine.
The investigation led to the arrest of a gun dealer responsible for bringing illegal hand guns in to Canada.
I thought it interesting that he was from Franklin Park, Illinois and that the Lane Bryant shootings (5 women in store shot dead, no suspects, no motives,no arrests,unsolved)..and the mall shootings were in Tinley Park, Illinois. Not far from each other. But I have found that so far the warmest lead in the case has to do with a splinter church group of all things.
Reminds me of information from the United States in regards to the hunt to capture a serial killer in L.A. Authorities were searching for a van, which was found but unoccupied and idling in front of a church. They believe he had run into the church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Sleeper
And heres another one also well hidden under the auspices of the church, quoted/described by an LA TIMEs blog writer as an "religious pleasant fellow".
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In any case, back to the Lane Bryant shootings..
...someone called " the former lead singer from the group Chicago"...sang at a fundraiser for a scholarship in one of the victims names in the Lane Bryant shootings.
That would be Peter Cetera then? The article doesnt say.
So! By now if you have decided you have had enough of all this and want to tune out, you may have missed your chance to watch this its all about the season finale of the CBS drama "Criminal Minds", which aired a few days ago now.
It's a two hour season finale that won't be resolved until the fall season and even the cast is calling this episode "bizarre."
In the finale episode, the BAU tracks a serial killer who chooses junkies, prostitutes and the homeless off the streets of Detroit as his victims and takes them across the border to a Canadian pig farm.
Bizarre? Truly. Well known to have actually occured resulting in the longest most expensive and macarbe murder investigations on Canadian soil. But do the viewers that far east know that?
Thanks for visiting.
In case you might be wondering why I made this entry, its not so elementary at all. While researching the story of the gun dealer (id wondered if in fact there were a ferry service in Chicago!) I became enraveled with searching for the meaning behind the reason for the two Hamburgs. One being in Illinois and one being in Missouri, they are about between 50-100 miles aprt but are seperated by a state border. (note: the one in MO not to be confused with New Hamburg in southeast Missouri.)Cheerio!.
Posted by mach1231
at 1:46 PM PDT
Updated: Sunday, 24 May 2009 11:55 PM PDT
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