A 28-year-old Italian ambulance paramedic faces trial on charges he murdered elderly patients by injecting lethal air into their veins, and wiretaps allegedly capture him saying he enjoyed it. Luca Spada was arrested in April after colleagues raised concerns about a string of suspicious deaths involving patients in his care during or after ambulance transport. […] The post Italian paramedic accused of killing six patients by injecting air into their veins appeared first on American Almanac .
A 28-year-old Italian ambulance paramedic faces trial on charges he murdered elderly patients by injecting lethal air into their veins, and wiretaps allegedly capture him saying he enjoyed it. Luca Spada was arrested in April after colleagues raised concerns about a string of suspicious deaths involving patients in his care during or after ambulance transport. Prosecutors allege he killed six people by deliberately causing fatal embolisms, air bubbles forced into the bloodstream, targeting victims who were elderly or seriously ill. He remains in custody, and a court in the northern Italian city of Forlì has rejected his bid for house arrest. The Sun reported that Spada is scheduled to stand trial on October 15 before the Court of…Open
Nearly half a century after skeletal remains turned up in the woods outside a North Carolina tire plant, state investigators used advanced DNA testing to put a name to the dead, a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in Maryland and never came back. North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation announced this week that […] The post Skeletal remains found in North Carolina woods in 1977 identified as 15-year-old Maryland runaway appeared first on American Almanac .
Nearly half a century after skeletal remains turned up in the woods outside a North Carolina tire plant, state investigators used advanced DNA testing to put a name to the dead, a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in Maryland and never came back. North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation announced this week that remains discovered on December 29, 1977, belong to Cindy Marcell Blizzard, a teenager from Monkton, Maryland, who left home in the spring of that year. The SBI is treating her death as a homicide. No arrests have been made, and the cause of death remains unknown. The remains, skeletal by the time they were found, lay in woods near a Firestone tire manufacturing plant in Wilson County, a rural area roughly 60 miles east…Open
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed the skeleton of a young man who climbed into a storage jar to hide from attackers roughly 1,600 years ago, and never climbed out. Professor Lyudmil Vagalinski of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences announced the discovery on August 10, after his team dug through layers of construction debris at the […] The post Skeleton in a jar: archaeologists piece together a young Roman's final moments in Bulgaria appeared first on American Almanac .
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed the skeleton of a young man who climbed into a storage jar to hide from attackers roughly 1,600 years ago, and never climbed out. Professor Lyudmil Vagalinski of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences announced the discovery on August 10, after his team dug through layers of construction debris at the ancient Roman city of Deultum. Inside a burned-out defensive tower at the city's western gate, they found the lower half of a massive clay storage jar, and, crouched within it, the remains of a young man who had been sealed beneath a replacement floor for sixteen centuries. The find offers a grim, human-scale window into the collapse of Roman order along the empire's eastern frontier. Deultum, one of…Open
Three law enforcement agencies are now actively investigating the 1993 killing of Shelley Watkins after a forensic DNA advance cracked open a cold case that went dormant when a corruption scandal derailed the original prosecution. Shelley Watkins was 35 years old, a mother of two small girls, one four, one just 18 months, when she […] The post DNA breakthrough revives 33-year-old Texas murder case of mother who vanished on Labor Day weekend appeared first on American Almanac .
Three law enforcement agencies are now actively investigating the 1993 killing of Shelley Watkins after a forensic DNA advance cracked open a cold case that went dormant when a corruption scandal derailed the original prosecution. Shelley Watkins was 35 years old, a mother of two small girls, one four, one just 18 months, when she disappeared from her home in Corsicana, Texas, on the night of September 6, 1993. Seven days later, fishermen pulled her body from the Trinity River. She had been struck at least eight times in the back of the head, bore a ligature mark on her throat, and was wrapped in plastic, bound with duct tape, and weighed down with two concrete cinder blocks. For more than three decades, no one has been held accountable.…Open
A British antique collector paid $85,000 for a taxidermied head mislabeled as a fox, then confirmed through X-ray and CT scans that it belonged to a Tasmanian Tiger, an apex predator extinct since 1936. James Cranfield, a 38-year-old natural history relics dealer who specializes in collecting unusual fox heads, was scrolling an auction site when […] The post Flea market 'fox head' turns out to be one of two known Tasmanian Tiger specimens on Earth appeared first on American Almanac .
A British antique collector paid $85,000 for a taxidermied head mislabeled as a fox, then confirmed through X-ray and CT scans that it belonged to a Tasmanian Tiger, an apex predator extinct since 1936. James Cranfield, a 38-year-old natural history relics dealer who specializes in collecting unusual fox heads, was scrolling an auction site when he spotted a listing for a "19th century fox head" consigned to Auctioneum, an auction house in Bristol, England. The image stopped him cold. The proportions were wrong. The teeth were wrong. Cranfield counted eight upper incisors in the photograph, two more than any fox has ever carried. He believed he was looking at the head of a thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger, a carnivorous…Open
Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore talks about Alex Murdaugh’s defense and its hope unknown DNA evidence could lead investigators to another possible suspect in the murders of Murdaugh’s wife and son. Watch this full episode of "The Truth of the Matter": https://youtu.be/qdLgNZexpwo #AlexMurdaugh #truecrime #investigation
Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore talks about unknown male DNA found under murder victim Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails and how a “SNP” DNA profile of that evidence could help investigators. A “SNP” profile looks at small DNA differences between people to help identify ancestry, disease risks or physical traits. Watch this full episode of "The Truth of the Matter": https://youtu.be/qdLgNZexpwo #AlexMurdaugh #truecrime #MaggieMurdaugh
