DNA CRACKS 1994 COLD CASE MURDER

KILLER?

THE case baffled cops for well over a decade but a determined detective refused to be beaten and now thanks to DNA a brutal killer has been brought to justice.
Kevin Bernard Smith Jr is charged with the bloody shooting Rupert Thompson and the attempted killing of Thompson’s wife, Dorothy in their LA home back in 1994.
The pair were nearly asleep in their ground floor bedroom when Dorothy Thompson woke to find a gunman at the foot of their bed after hearing some glass shatter.
The man then blasted her in the torso before her husband got up and struggled with the thief in their front garden but he managed to escape. 
Rupert Thompson, then 73, later died and Dorothy Thompson was partially paralyzed in her right shoulder.
LAPD Detective Steven Castro refused to give up and after reviewing the cold case in 2009 he decided to give the blood DNA evidence another try.
He said: “There were a couple of drops of blood not id’d. I requested it be submitted again, with the advances in DNA.”
His attempt paid off and he got the hit on Smith, who was in a Mississippi prison on an unrelated drug conviction at the time, from a national database in August 2010.
He has since pled not guilty to charges including murder, attempted murder and robbery.
Castro added: “I am happy that I was fortunate enough to give Dorothy Thompson the news."
Now, he said he  hopes that she will be able to see Smith, who is currently undergoing a psychiatric evaluation judged in court.

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LONG ISLAND: TWO SERIAL KILLERS NOW SOUGHT

TAYLOR

TWO serial killers are now being sought by cops investigating the 10 murdered bodies found on a deserted Long Island beach - including the head of a prostitute missing since 2003.
Investigators have finally identified  the remains of a skull and a pair of hands found in March as belonging to 20-year-old Jessica Taylor, whose headless, handless body was found 40 miles away in Manorville in 2003.
She is the fifth victim publicly identified in the case. 
It is not yet known if whether, like the other victims, she was a prostitute who advertised on Craigslist.
Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said he was convinced the prostitutes were all killed by the same man, but admitted police have yet to identify a suspect - and there is likely to be a second killer.

He said: "As distasteful and disturbing as that is, there is no evidence that all of these remains are the work of a single killer."He added that parts of a second woman were also found this year on the beach. Spota says a man and a girl younger than 2 years old also are among the victims.

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MADDIE MCCANN'S MOM: 'SHE TRIED TO WARN ME'

WARNING

HEARTBROKEN mother Kate McCann has revealed that she is haunted by the belief that her daughter Madeleine may have tried to to tell her that someone had tried to break into the children's bedroom.
Speaking on the eve of Maddie's eighth birthday she admitted that the possible missed chance came at breakfast on the day she vanished, when the little girl disconcerted her mother by asking: "Why didn’t you come when Sean and I cried last night?"    
The 43-year-old added: "Not for a moment did we think there might be some sinister explanation. But it is [now] my belief there was somebody either in or trying to get into the children’s bedroom that night, and that is what disturbed them."
She added: "So haunted have I been ever since by Madeleine’s words that I’ve continued to blame myself for not sitting down and making completely certain there was no more information I could draw out of her."With hindsight, it could have been her ‘one chance to prevent what was about to happen and I blew it."
Madeleine, who was three, disappeared from her bed in the family’s apartment in Praia da Luz on the evening of May 3, 2007, while her parents were eating at a nearby tapas restaurant – as they did every night of the holiday.
Kate who still wants to believe her daughter is alive reveals her anguish an emotional book, called Madeleine out Thursday. 

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SUSPECT IN '87 CALI. MURDER FITS PROFILE TO A T

KILLER?

A QUARTER-of-a-century after he was found stabbed to death in the street cops believe they have finally cracked the murder case of Richard Schultz.
The 52-year-old was found with multiple stab wounds in June 1987 in a Sacramento, Ca, alleyway along with another man who was treated by emergency personnel and survived.
Detectives at the time determined both victims and a third unknown man had been drinking beers in a carport and for unknown reasons, Schultz and the suspect began arguing, leading the suspect to stab both of them.
But he was gone by the time emergency crews arrived, and the case remained unsolved. But, now almost 25-years after the murder Cops have picked up 48-year-old Gregory Samuel Olguin.

as they say DNA was a match to evidence collected at the scene.
Sacramento Police spokeswoman Laura Peck said: "He matched the description to a "T", so that was another way we connected him to the crime.
"However, it was the DNA that was crucial in solving this case."
However in an jailhouse interview with News 10  Olguin denied having killed Schultz, but admitted he may have met the man. 
He told them: "It's been so long since I've been down there. I mean, I did a lot of messed up things in my life, but not this. No."

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WHO MURDERED 2 CHICAGO TEENS IN 1979?

THE FAMILIES of two suburban Chicago teens murdered more than 30 years ago are still waiting for their killer to be caught--and a motive. Eyvonne Bender and Susan Ovington went shopping and never came home. Their bodies were found in the Morton Grove Forest Preserve, September 5, 1979. They
had been shot to death. The case has remained cold.

Susan's sister, Judy Sanfillipo said:"We'll never

know why they went for a walk in the woods on a summer day, and never came out. There's got to be somebody out there who knows something."
The two teens were shot in the head, their purses in an unlocked car. Soon, cops hit a brick wall on what they thought was a slam dunk case. Seven months after the murders, on Eyvonne's 18th birthday, someone painted crosses on her parent's car and driveway. And then the leads dried up, the case box gathering dust. But cops still believe the case is solvable.
BRICKWALL IN 1979 CHICAGO UNSOLVED

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COPS: MORE VICTIMS OF 1970s NIGHT STALKER

30 YEARS LATER

INFAMOUS serial killer, the Original Night Stalker who murdered at least 10 people and sexually assaulted more than 50 has been linked to at least two more deaths using modern DNA technology.
Considered to be one the worst and most prolific unapprehended serial offenders in America the notorious murderer terrorized South California in the late 70s with a string of shocking deaths.  
Typically he would target middle class homes and stealthily sneaking in late at night.
Then he would wake his victims at gunpoint, tie them up killing the men with a bullet to the brain and the battering their corpses.
The women weren't so lucky, often subjected to horrific sexual
assaults over a long time before being bludgeoned to death.
When he was done, he would ransack the home and leave their rotting corpses.
Early in his spree he only targeted women and became known as the  East Area Rapist, but emboldened by the law's inability to catch him, he moved on to couples.
Now thanks to new DNA technology cops know that in the July of 1981, 35-year-old Cheri Domingo and 27-year- old Gregory Sanchez were murdered in Goleta by the elusive killer.
Less than two years earlier, in 1979, 44-year-old Doctor Robert Offerman and 35-year-old Alexandria Manning were also murdered just blocks away and it seems he returned to his hunting ground.
"There were bloodstains on the sidewalk leading to the bridge across the creek," Roger Millikan, who's lived nearby for 40 years, told KSBY.
He added that says the serial killer's m-o seemed to be murdering unmarried couples.
He said: "Some people were even talking about posting their marriage license in the window as a precaution. "
Investigators collected more than 50 pieces of evidence from the house, but the case ran cold until detectives re-examined it with a better DNA kit.
Investigators think the killer would now be in his 50s or 60s and have vowed not to stop until they catch him.
An investigator said: "With technology getting better and better, we're hoping it will be a matter of time. One thing's for sure, we will not give up. If it takes one year or 100, we will get him."

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