New Search for Bonnie Cale

To update my note of June 19 2008, a new search is on for evidence in the disappearance of Bonnie Lueann Cale who went missing in March of 2002. This week's online edition of The Parsons Advocate has the story. http://www.parsonsadvocate.com/breakingnews2.html

Motion for DNA Testing Granted

The student attorneys and their professor of the Clinical Law Program at West Virginia University have successfully argued the case before Judge Phil Jordan, Circuit Judge 21st Judicial Circuit, Tucker County for DNA testing on physical evidence in this case.

Judge Jordan made his ruling on 4 Nov 2009. The WV State Crime Lab is ordered to conduct the necessary testing and provide the results to the Court within 120 days.

"Justice is a restaurant without a kitchen"

from an anonymous posting on a popular forum

Strengthening Forensic Science in The United States: A Path Forward

The National Academy of Sciences has just released a prepublication pdf of -
Strengthening Forensic Science in The United States: A Path Forward

This important work has resulted from the collaboration of scholars from multiple disciplines leading to 13 recommendations for the improvement of forensic science in the US.
It is available from The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. www.nap.edu

January 24

Today would have been Timmy Roberts 44th birthday. That's 27 years of life lost. May he rest in peace.