#cold case files

[unexplained-casefiles]

The most bizarre cold case: Two men found dead wearing mysterious lead mask.

[coldcasevault]

Hayde Beatriz Vasquez

Hayde Beatriz Vasquez, born on June 22, 1981, was last seen on May 29, 2004, in Coral Springs, Florida. At the time of her disappearance, she was 22 years old, stood 5'5" tall, and weighed 110 pounds. She is a Hispanic female with brown hair and brown eyes. Vasquez was born in Guatemala.

On the day she went missing, Vasquez was dropped off at a Wal-Mart store in the 6000 block of Coral Ridge Drive around 7:00 p.m., intending to purchase clothes for an upcoming weekend trip. Surveillance footage shows her shopping alone and leaving the store by herself. She was supposed to call a friend for a ride home but never did. At the time, she was wearing dark-colored pants, a red long-sleeved shirt, and carrying a light-colored purse with a shoulder strap and a green computer case containing clothing.

Vasquez had been employed as a nanny for a family in Parkland, Florida, for a year and a half prior to her disappearance. Authorities consider foul play a possibility in her case. Notably, earlier that year, another Hispanic nanny, Monica Valdizan, was murdered in a nearby area. Despite physical similarities between the two women, investigators found no connection between the cases.

If you have any information regarding Hayde Beatriz Vasquez's disappearance, please contact the Coral Springs Police Department at 954-346-1223.

[mashupofmylife]

learned a new word today while watching all the cold case files on netflix

"DNA-able"

[kimo-the-bloop]

im watching cold case files and this is how its going  (spoilers for episode 3)

robbin and zilphia: *doing it*

bobby: haha okay bro my turn

robbin and zilphia: what

bobby: *FUCKING MURDERS HER*

[blueiscoool]

Skeleton Found in Barrel at Lake Mead Died From a Gunshot

Human remains revealed this week by sinking water levels in Lake Mead are likely of a gunshot victim, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said Tuesday.

The skeletal remains were found Sunday in a barrel partially buried in mud at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

"We believe this is a homicide as a result of a gunshot wound," Lt. Ray Spencer said Tuesday in a release.

"Detectives believe the victim was killed some time in the mid-’70s to early ’80s, based on clothing and footwear the victim was found with," the release said.

Forensic experts were attempting to identify the victim, and the department said Tuesday that no additional interviews or information would be provided.

On Monday, Spencer said in Las Vegas that identifying the body would "take an extensive amount of work," although the "body was fully intact."

Lake Mead provides water for 25 million people and millions of acres of farmland in several states in the Southwest, including California.

During the period when the victim is believed to have died, Lake Mead was hundreds of feet deeper than it is now. In the decades since, the lake has been depleted by rising temperatures and smaller snowpacks.

“Since 2000, snowfall and runoff into the basin have been well below normal. These conditions have resulted in significant water level declines at major system reservoirs, including Lake Mead and Lake Powell," the Southern Nevada Water Authority said on its website.

Spender said the lake shrinks by a foot or two every year.

“I would say there is a very good chance as the water level drops that we are going to find additional human remains," Spencer said.

Homicide victims are recovered from the lake fairly often, officials said on Monday.

[valengory1234]

I can’t imagine how many cases will continue to go/ remain cold just because DNA evidence hasn’t been put into the database. It’s just been collecting dust, and for what?

[tumultundertibbles]

Detective on tv: *rubbing his grimy mitts all over the evidence*

Me:

[kereeachan]

Watching “Cold Case Files Classic” today. I must say, it involves a fair bit more Actual Forensic Work than the Cold Case Files series I watched earlier this year, tho there is still a lot of “get information from person who finally comes forward/thinks of something.”

Second story of the first episode especially had a lot of forensics. A dead woman’s body was found sealed up in two drums on a property that had gone unopened for years. A major part of the investigation was forensic treatments to the address book that was on the body and eventually gave her identity via it holding her Visa and Immigration info. That and looking into the drums, which were from a now-defunct plastic company.

These episodes are much shorter, having two stories in the same time the other series told one. Less time for misdirection and “drama” I suppose. Tho the first episode was less “who did it” and more “can we prove it” since they already had the person on the kidnapping of the baby (who they’d “adopted” to another couple for a lot of money and then demanded back) and the body of the baby (formerly a Jane Doe Baby until someone rightly connected the two stories and badgered her cop husband until he agreed to test for DNA).

Thus far all but the first episode have also started with a body. That was a bit more of a tossup in the other series since a lot were “missing” cases that escalated.