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Cold Case Files
''Cold Case Files'' is a reality legal show/documentary on the cable channel A&E Network and a rebooted series. It is hosted by Bill Kurtis and the original series produced by Tom Golden. The show documents the investigation of many long-unsolved murders (referred to as "cold cases" in detectives' parlance) through the use of modern forensic science (especially recent advances in DNA techniques), and criminal psychology, in addition to recent breakthroughs in the case(s) involving previously silent witnesses. On January 19, 2017, Blumhouse Television, AMPLE Entertainment and A&E revived the series for a ten-episode run. The well received reboot features highly cinematic recreations and music. The new episodes first began airing on February 27, 2017. Actor Danny Glover took over for Kurtis as narrator for this new 10-episode series. Kurtis later returned. On August 20, 2021, after a four-year hiatus, the series returned with a new season on A&E, again with Kurtis as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nodaway County, Missouri
Nodaway County is a county located in the northwest part of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,241. Its county seat is Maryville. The county was organized February 14, 1845, and is named for the Nodaway River. It is the largest county by area added to Missouri in the 1836 Platte Purchase and the fifth-largest county by area in Missouri. Nodaway County comprises the Maryville, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. History The county has a rich agricultural history. It is the home of trainers Ben Jones and Jimmy Jones, whose horses won six Kentucky Derby races and two Triple Crowns. The county is home to Northwest Missouri State University. The university's grounds were a re-creation of the landscape of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. In 1993, Northwest was designated by the Missouri State Legislature as the official Missouri Arboretum. ESPN has carried the university's participation in five national championship football games, three of which they won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurtis Productions, Ltd
Kurtis may refer to: People *Bill Kurtis, American television journalist *Frank Kurtis (1908–1987), American car-builder and founder of Kurtis Kraft *Mesut Kurtis, Macedonian Islamic singer of Turkish descent *Kurtis Conner, Canadian comedian and YouTuber *Kurtis Rourke (born 2000), Canadian American football player *Kurtis Rowe, New Zealand Rugby League player *Kurtis Blow, American Rapper Fictional characters *Kurtis Trent from the ''Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness'' game * Kurtis, a recurring character in the ''Disgaea: Hour of Darkness'' and ''Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories'' games * Kurtis Stryker from the ''Mortal Kombat'' series of video games See also *Curtis (other) Curtis or Curtiss is a given name and surname. Curtis or Curtiss may also refer to: Places United States * Curtis, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Curtis, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Curtis, Florida, an unincorporated com ... * Kurti (other) *Kurtis (animation st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Enforcement Agency
A law enforcement agency (LEA) is any government agency responsible for law enforcement within a specific jurisdiction through the employment and deployment of law enforcement officers and their resources. The most common type of law enforcement agency is the police, but various other forms exist as well, including agencies that focus on specific legal violation, or are organized and overseen by certain Authority, authorities. They typically have various Law enforcement agency powers, powers and Rights, legal rights to allow them to perform their duties, such as the power of arrest and the use of force. Jurisdiction LEAs which have their ability to apply their powers restricted in some way are said to operate within a jurisdiction. Jurisdictions are traditionally restricted to a geographic area and territory. LEA might be able to apply its powers within a Sovereign state, state (e.g. the National Police (France), National Police for the entirety of France), within an administr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Hettrick Murder Case
The Peggy Hettrick murder case concerns the unsolved 1987 death of Peggy Hettrick in Fort Collins, Colorado. Timothy Lee "Tim" Masters enlisted in the United States Navy following a high school career plagued by police accusation of murder when he was a sophomore at Fort Collins High School. After eight years in the Navy, he was honorably discharged. Masters worked for Learjet as an aviation mechanic until 1997, when he was arrested for the murder of Peggy Hettrick. He was charged and convicted of the Hettrick murder in 1999 and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. His sentence was vacated in January 2008 when DNA evidence from the original crime scene indicated that he was not the responsible party. Three years after his release from prison, Masters was exonerated by the Colorado Attorney General on June 28, 2011. , no one else has been charged with Hettrick's murder. Background On the morning of February 11, 1987, a bicyclist investigated what he thought was a mannequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Leonard Orr
John Leonard Orr (born ) is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter. A fire captain and arson investigator in Glendale, California, Orr was convicted of serial arson and four counts of murder; he is believed to have set nearly 2,000 fires in a 30 year arson spree, most of them between 1984 and 1991, making him the most prolific serial arsonist in American history. During his arson spree, Orr had several nicknames: the Pillow Pyro due to the location of the fires inside shops; the Frito Bandito, due to starting some of his fires using potato chips; and the Coin Tosser for incorporating coins into his incendiary devices. Orr's ''modus operandi'' was to set fires using a timed device, usually comprising a lit cigarette with three matches wrapped in ruled yellow writing paper and secured by a rubber band, in stores while they were open and populated. He would also set small fires in the grassy hills in order to distract firefighters, leaving fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rodney McRae
John Rodney McRae (November 20, 1934 – June 28, 2005) was an American murderer and suspected serial killer. McRae was officially convicted of two sexually-motivated murders of young boys, one committed when he was 15, but is the prime suspect in at least three more. He never admitted his guilt, and died in prison while serving a life sentence. Early life John Rodney McRae was born on November 20, 1934, in the small town of Belleville, Michigan, to John Alexander and Josephine Smith McRae, who also had a younger daughter. In the early 1940s, the family left Michigan and moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where McRae attended a military school for some time, before they eventually returned to Michigan in 1946. There, the elder McRae found lodging in suburban St. Clair Shores, where the family earned a positive reputation for leading law-abiding, honest lives. McRae went to the Lakeview High School, where he mainly engaged in sports and was on the football team, but by this time, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Michele LeAnn Morgan
Michele LeAnn Morgan (July 20, 1957 – August 11, 1961) was an American child abuse victim who was murdered by her stepmother at the age of four. Her story was documented on an episode of ''Cold Case Files''. Abuse Michele suffered multiple injuries to the chest and back, a broken nose, burns on her skin, and a broken arm before the age of four at the hands of her stepmother, Mary Rae. These led to over 20 visits to a hospital, including one in which she was hospitalized for a month. Murder On August 9, 1961, Mary held Michele under water and stomped her violently, believing that the child had lied about something. These actions were seen by Michele's older brother, George. At dinner, Michele vomited blood clots. The next day she died of her internal injuries. An autopsy was conducted by the pathologist at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, near where the Morgans lived and Michele's father, a USAF airman, was stationed, the cause of death was found to be massive trauma to the che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babes In The Wood Murders (Stanley Park)
The Babes in the Wood murders is a name which has been used in the media to refer to a child murder case in which the bodies of two brothers, Derek and David D'Alton, also known as Derek and David Bousquet, were found concealed in woodland at Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Vancouver Police Department identified the brothers publicly on February 15, 2022. Discovery The remains of two male victims (murdered about 1947) were discovered in Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ..., Canada on Wednesday, January 14, 1953. Police determined that a hatchet found at the crime scene, which was of a type commonly used by shingle weavers and lathers, had been used to kill the boys by striking them in the head. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marybeth Davis
Marybeth Davis (born ) is an American former nurse who was convicted of the murders of her two children in 1997, although she had maintained her innocence for several years. Davis was released from prison in 2007 after accepting a plea deal and confessing to the crimes. Case history In September 1981 in Lewisburg, West Virginia, Davis's infant son, Seth, had suffered massive damage to his brain, which prosecutors believed was caused by an injection of a large amount of insulin. He was later moved to a mental institution where he spent the rest of his life. Several months after the incident with Seth, on 11 March 1982, Davis's three-year-old daughter, Tegan, died of a caffeine pill overdose. Dr. Anne Hooper, who performed the autopsy on the girl, found hundreds of capsules inside of the digestive tract, where she then concluded that the manner of death was likely a homicide. Trial In 1997, Davis was placed on trial for the murder of Tegan and the injury to Seth. It was reported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Alison Parrott
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.") This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of ''malice'',This is "malice" in a technical legal sense, not the more usual English sense denoting an emotional state. See malice (law). such as in the case of voluntary manslaughter brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. ''Involuntary'' manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness. Most societies conside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Crane
Robert Edward CraneCrane, Robert (2015). Crane : Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder'. Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky. p. 100. . (July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978) was an American acting, actor, drummer, radio personality and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS situation comedy, sitcom ''Hogan's Heroes''. Crane was a drummer from age 11, and began his entertainment career as a radio personality, beginning in Hornell, New York and later in Connecticut. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he hosted the number-one rated morning radio show. In the early 1960s, Crane moved into acting, eventually landing the lead role of Colonel Robert Hogan in ''Hogan's Heroes''. The series aired from 1965 to 1971, and Crane received two Primetime Emmy Award, Emmy Award nominations. Crane's career declined after ''Hogan's Heroes''. He became frustrated with the few roles that he was being offered and began performing in dinner theater. In 1975 he returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PodcastOne
LiveOne (formerly known as LiveXLive) is a Los Angeles-based streaming platform that provides livestreams of concerts and festivals, curated radio stations, podcasts, and original artist video and audio content. History LiveXLive LiveXLive was founded by Rob Ellin in 2015. It acquired Wantickets in February 2016, allowing the business to enter the music ticketing sector. It lost $14.2 million in fiscal year 2016, on revenue of $225,000. In 2017, the company began signing content partnerships with internet personalities, including Amanda Cerny, King Bach, and Jake Paul, with Cerny later named head of its talent division. In August 2017, its parent company, Loton Corp, became LiveXLive Media. In September 2017, LiveXLive acquired Slacker Radio for $50 million. When the deal closed in January 2018, Slacker had 1.5 million monthly active and 400,00 paid subscribers, and was rebranded as LiveXLive in April 2019. By the end of June 2020, it had 877,000 subscribers. LiveXLive laun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
