What, can't solve any current crimes?
"DNA links convict to ’72 killing of woman; Suspect died in ’01 while jailed for rape" by David Abel, Globe Staff | February 18, 2010
Thirty-eight years after authorities found Ellen Rutchick partially clothed and strangled with an electrical cord in her Back Bay apartment, police said yesterday that they have cracked the case, one of an increasing number of old crimes solved with new forensic methods.
We have UNSOLVED NEW CRIMES going on NOW!
WTF?
Not that people don't deserve answers, but is this the best use of limited resources at this time?
Related: MSM Xmas Gifts: To American Convicts
Massachusetts Justice: Wrongful Convictions
Massachusetts Justice: Holding Back
Yeah, maybe they SHOULD KEEP INVESTIGATING!
How many INNOCENT PEOPLE have been FRAMED!?
Using DNA matching technology, cold case squad investigators identified Michael Sumpter as the suspect in the 1972 slaying of the 23-year-old secretary. Police also named him as a suspect in the 1985 rape of a 21-year-old woman who also lived in the Back Bay.
No charges will be filed. Sumpter died in prison in 2001, while jailed on a separate rape conviction, prosecutors and police said.
“This development demonstrates that although sometimes justice may be delayed, with dogged detective work, dedicated prosecutors, and highly-skilled crime lab technicians, justice does not have to be denied,’’ Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said in a statement....
Why didn't they do their jobs right the first time?
And where is the justice for war criminals and looters?
And WHAT is the CODIS, do you ask?
In July 2009, investigators matched the DNA from the scene with Sumpter’s DNA, held in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System known as CODIS, prosecutors said.
Sumpter died of cancer while serving a 15-to-20-year sentence for the rape of a woman at her Beacon Street residence in 1975.
Yesterday, Rutchick’s relatives said they were glad to know that police had identified a suspect.
“This is a great relief,’’ Irene Rutchick, one of the victim’s three siblings, said when reached by telephone at her home in New York. “It is helpful to know who the murderer was....’’
Except they are only calling him a "suspect(?)."
The biological evidence that in 2005 linked Sumpter to the 1985 rape was the 30th match to a Suffolk County case made by CODIS....
The system's database holds about 7 million DNA profiles.
This government loves its tyrannical and possibly abused and unprotected databases, doesn't it?
Police said Rutchick’s slaying was the oldest Suffolk County case to have been solved using CODIS. In late 2008, the program allegedly linked a 60-year-old Georgia man to a 1984 sexual assault and homicide in Roxbury. That suspect, Sultan Omar Chezulu, is expected to face trial this year in the death of 18-year-old Elsie “Yolanda’’ Hernandes.
DNA evidence led police to charge another man, Jerry Dixon, 36, of Dorchester as the assailant in four rapes that occurred between 1989 and 1991, including an attack that led to an innocent man being convicted and imprisoned.
Happens a LOT MORE than you would like to believe, Amrica. Prosecutors like to throw shutouts and keep their records clean. If they have a suspect, they tailor the evidence to fit that person and discard any dissenting or exculpatory evidence.
Before Dixon was identified through a DNA sample he submitted in 2007, Suffolk prosecutors indicted the unique genetic profile of the unknown attacker to ensure that the assailant could be charged even after the statute of limitations expired....
Last April, nearly 19 years after the crime, a jury convicted Kurvin Richardson, 40, of killing Noemi Roman when prosecutors linked him to DNA evidence in her fingernails. She scratched him before he killed her.
Yesterday, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said finding a suspect in Rutchick’s case reflected how new technology is helping solve old cases.
“Obviously, we hope this development is a source of comfort rather than frustration for them,’’ Conley said. “After all, Ellen’s killer faces a far harsher judgment in the next world than any court could mete out in this one.’’
But we are supposed to have separation of church and state.
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Notice how the tyranny is sold as a good thing, helping to "solve" crimes rather than exonerate innocents and expose corruption?
Thus is the state of AmeriKa's power-protecting newspapers and why they are dying.
"Review of civil rights-era killings yields few indictments" by Carrie Johnson, Washington Post | March 1, 2010
WASHINGTON - Three years after the FBI pledged to investigate more than 100 unsolved civil rights killings, the agency is ready to close all but a handful. Investigators say they have solved most of the mysteries behind the cases, but few will result in indictments, given the passage of decades, the deaths of prime suspects, and the challenge of gathering evidence....
So they are basically wasting a lot of time.
Of course, the MSM and FBI wouldn't bother to investigate old crimes like the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations or the bogus patsy trail of 9/11 hijackers.
Can't get to the bottom of all the stolen loot by war-profiteers and banksters or prosecute torturing war criminals, etc.
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Government always needs phantom enemies to misdirect you from the real threat -- the very same lying, false-flagging government out to "protect" you.
"Police seeking would-be thief" by Shana Wickett, Globe Correspondent | February 19, 2010
Authorities were searching for a man who tried to rob a bank in Watertown yesterday before fleeing on foot, police said.
The incident was reported at Watertown Savings Bank at 739 Main St. at 7:12 a.m., when the bank’s alarm company alerted local police and a bank employee called afterward, said a Watertown Police Department spokesman, Lieutenant Michael Lawn. No one was injured, and nothing was taken, he said....
WTF?
Yeah, forget current crimes.
Let's go blow dust of a cold case that they can't prosecute.
Update:
"Man with mask, gun robs bank branch
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