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Dead Bodies and Live Minds: How Investigating a Real Murder Can Inspire Curiosity in the High School Classroom

Source: Dead Bodies and Live Minds: How Investigating a Real Murder Can Inspire Curiosity in the High School Classroom

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Who were the victims?

So far it is possible that a serial killer let two other men suffer the sentences he deserved. S.C. Stone (Book 1) and Albert Dyer (Book 2) were both convicted of murdering little girls. Stone was convicted of murdering May and Nina Martin and after his death sentence was commuted he was eventually released from […]

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New cover for Snake Avenue

Lightning strikes an upside down world.

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Snake Avenue: The Cold Case of Ten-year-old Virgina Brooks

Virginia Brooks was missing for a month before her body was found. Was a serial killer responsible? The two little Martin sisters were murdered in 1924, and two more sisters in 1937, the Everett sisters along with their friend Jeanette Stephens. This third book is a detailed report that puts together the facts found at […]

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The West Virginia University College of Law Launches First National LL.M. Program in Forensic Justice

Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
In conjunction with the Forensics & Investigative Science Department and the West Virginia Innocence Project, The West Virginia University College of Law, is launching the first national LL.M. in Forensic Justice. The one-year degree responds to the 2009 National Academy of Sciences Report on Forensic Sciences and the need…