Dallas reopens cold case unit
After going without a dedicated cold case squad for about seven years, Dallas police reopened their cold case unit this month, the Dallas Morning News reports.
About 700 homicides from 1990 to the present have gone unsolved in the Dallas area.
For more information, check out the complete story online: http://tinyurl.com/24esxb
Next feature drawing near
The next major case on our schedule is the 1986 kidnapping of Kathy Sue Engle, a 41-year-old wife and mother of two who was later found dead near Sayre.
For years, authorities thought they knew who killed Engle, but DNA tests seem to have cleared the suspects.
Do you remember the Engle case? Have any information we should know?
Contact us here or by e-mail at coldcase@oklahoman.com.
Mystery of the missing feet
Reuters news service posted this story recently. Quite a bizarre case.
Severed human feet a mystery for Canadian police
Police have found themselves with the gruesome mystery of why three human feet have washed ashore on islands in the Strait of Georgia on Canada’s Pacific coast over the past six months.
Investigators do not know who the victims were, when they died, or if foul play or an accident was involved.
The cases all involved right feet, and the decomposing remains were still wearing sneakers.
“It is not known at this time what relationship, if any, this (third) foot has with the two feet recovered last year in the same area,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.
The first two were discovered in August and the third was found on February 8. Each was found on a different island in the Strait of Georgia, which separates the mainland and the city of Vancouver from Vancouver Island.
DNA testing on the feet found in August failed link them to any missing person cases. The third foot is awaiting testing.
(Reporting Allan Dowd, Editing by Rob Wilson)
