Priscilla Lee Strole Case Study

A teenage boy discovered the boy’s body on 1 January 1998, at the Blue Rock Dam. A small sleeping bag with a crowbar tied to it and a plastic bag containing baby’s clothes, a bib, elastic-sided boots, a baby’s bottle

In August 2013, the case was reopened by “a team led by the Unified Police Sgt. Michael Ikemiyashiro” (Evans, 2014). According to the article, “the detectives sent scrapings that had been collected from under Johnson’s fingernails for DNA testing and recovered a profile that matched a Combined DNA Index System profile for Sansing” (Evans, 2014). The detectives not only tested the scrapings but, also tested the Legos that was once thought to be unimportant. The article states that, “investigators matched fingerprints from the LEGO toys gathered during the original investigation with one of Sansing’s children who was 5 years old at

This case started on July 25, 1984, with the death of a nine year old girl by the name of Dawn Hamilton. The story plays out as follows: Dawn approached two boys and an adult male that were fishing at a pond in a wooded area near Golden Ring Mall in eastern Baltimore, Maryland. Dawn asked the boys to help her find her cousin, they declined the adult male however agreed to help her look. This was the last time anyone

Hair Connection: Officers found hair clenched in the victim's hand, that was sent to a lab in Texas to be tested. The DNA showed that the hair belonged to Frank wright who was listed as a suspect, because an outside witness had seen Wright and Anagnos fighting in the bar earlier that day.

In the year 2010, 26-year-old Kenzie Houk was found murdered in her bed. Kenzie was shot in her head. Kenzie was also eight months pregnant when she was murdered (nydailynews.com). The person who found the body was her 4-year-old daughter. When the police officers arrived at the scene, they searched to see if anybody broke into the house. The police officers were unable to find any force entry. The police officers even thought it was a possibility that Kenzie ex-boyfriend could of committed the murder, but they were unable to connect him to the murder. Eventually, the police officers found out that the murderer was none other then the 11-year-old Jordan Anthony Brown.

f the case: The victim, Jessica Lunsford was abducted from her home, raped, held captive, and murdered by John Couey in February of 2005. Couey abducted Lunsford and took her to his half-sister's trailer less than 100 yards from Lunsfords residence. Couey forced Lunsford to hide in his bedroom closet while he was away for work. Dorothy Dixon, Couey's half-sister denies that Lunsford was ever in her home and gave the police permission to search her home and property. On March 19th, 2005 police searched Dixon's residence and property and found evidence that Jessica had been there with Couey, and that her body was buried under Dixon's front porch after Couey's confession, led k-9 police dogs and officers to Lunsfords bodys location. The hole was

mouth with duct tape and later disposing of her body in the woods. Prosecutors argued that

Evidence:Two men who robbed the agency were William Robinson and Terrance Stewart. License plate number was given. A note was found and latent fingerprints.

Christine Jessop was a nine year old girl who after bring dropped off by the school bus at her home in Queensville decided to ride her bike to the park nearby to meet with her friends. After stopping to buy some gum at the local store she was last seen walking her bike up her driveway by her friend Kim Warren. She did not keep her appointment with her friend at the park, and would never be seen alive again (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). This small town instantly became involved in the search for the missing girl, but with very little evidence to go on time passed, and hope began to diminish for the safe return home of Jessop. On New Year’s Eve 1984, eighty-nine days after Jessop went missing, her body was found badly decomposed in a bush by Fred Patterson fifty-five kilometers from Queensville. An autopsy would later revival that she was raped and mutilated (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). The police still did not have a suspect in the case nor did they have any leads, but now that her body was found the police and the small town were the topic of media, increasing pressure

Burglary was the first thought for a motive, but that theory was quickly abandoned. Nothing had been taken from the house. Also, once police had a chance to sniff around and question friends and neighbors, they zeroed in on a strong candidate for the killer.

After further investigation, there were remains enclosed in plastic bags with cinder blocks as weights which were dumped into Lake Shelbyville, which were discovered by a couple fishing. These remains were tested with Karyn Slover’s dental records and indeed these were her remains. Both suspects David Swann and Michael Slover Jr. had alibis, and seemed like the most obvious suspects. Ramsland states that Swann’s alibi was confirmed after showing up on a security camera by an ATM, yet Michael Slover Jr. had no confirmation and was seen being rough with Karyn. A couple years later, in 1998, Police spotted a break of concrete in Michael Slover Sr.’s used car lot named Miracle Motors. A forensic geologist was then brought into the case to see if part of the concrete missing matched the concrete in the plastic bags with Karyn’s remains. The concrete in the bags and in the car that Karyn was driving before she disappeared both matched the concrete missing from Michael Slover Sr.’s lot. Also, the author comments how some cloth found in the lot concrete links to the clothes that Karyn was wearing when she was murdered. This helped police get a search warrant into the Slover’s household, where they discovered one firearm was missing, a .22 caliber handgun like one that was used in the

Technology in the late 60’s was insufficient to collect DNA samples from suspects, however, in 1998 Riverside Police collected skin samples from their only remaining suspect in the case. The results of these tests have not been released to the public.

The woman, Sandra Bland, age twenty-eight, was arrested on July tenth. She had spent most of the weekend in the Waller County jail, and she was found dead, hanged in her cell on Monday. Sandra Bland’s death was ruled to be a suicide, but Sandra Bland’s family does find that to be true.

Early the next morning of December 8th, the lifeless body of Debbie Carter was found strangled in her small apartment. The murder of Debbie Carter flipped this small, rural, bible-belt, town on its head. People were outraged, overwhelmed, and stunned that such a thing could happen in this town to a young, beautiful girl whom everyone had known. This gruesome act put enormous pressure on local law enforcement to find the atrocious criminal. Finger prints, hair, and blood spatter was carefully collected from the scene.

Chay went over the information they’ve been given by those who knew Savannah. The detectives learned that the victim started her days at a local gym, she called her mother after leaving there and always clocked into work an hour before she was scheduled. She spent most of her evenings with friends and family or relaxing around her neatly kept