Forensics Friday : Germond Murders

Really quite sad. The evidence was already muddled. Apparently neighbors were allowed to tromp around the crime scene, and even if they weren't, the local police department didn't have any kind of real forensics team. I didn't add this, but apparently a woman in 1967 claimed that she had dated a man who could not stop talking about the Germond murders. The murders happened in New York but the woman lived in Connecticut. Thirty years had passed and no one was willing to believe her. She was a scorned woman, having been thrown to the side by the man for another woman.

@ScribbledAdNauseum No one believed her huh?

@Courage7 Apparently not. Then again, thirty years had passed. It makes me wonder how old the person was. I'd imagine the perp would have been in their sixties if it had been thirty years later.

I am going to try to find two new cases to write about here on mylot each week. Of course, it also gives ideas for novels. Yes, quite shocking, but then forensics weren't anywhere near what they are now. Jack The Ripper for instance, I think forensics was in it's infancy then.

@FayeHazel You know, I haven't really looked into him too much. I think that A&E did a documentary on him not too long ago. I like to find the more obscure ones, things that aren't talked about so much.

@ScribbledAdNauseum Good point, we didn't have as good of tech to catch people as we do now. I don't know why, but Dahmer really interests me .... go figure

@ScribbledAdNauseum I like the ID channel. It is probably my favorite. I am a bit of a murder junkie.

@snowy22315 I am going to go into the den in awhile. I may have to see if we have that channel. I know I can subscribe to it via amazon if nothing else. Netflix used to have a lot of good murder documentaries. Oh I remember one where this man killed his wife and two boys then fled back to the UK. He was living in the Upper part of the US, I forget which State. His wife was an American and I think he was over here on a spousal visa. He killed them then flew home to mom and dad. His mom and dad had no idea that he had killed his wife and children. I don't remember if his mom tried to defend him or not. I do know that they eventually extradited him back to the US.

My have been. I think we get the ID channel here now but I've never actually watch anything on it. Atleast not yet. We might just have the ID channel on demand and not the actual channel itself. I don't watch the television enough to know.

I feel like I have heard of the name, but it could have been related to something else. This happened in small town America so many years ago and it appears as if the police force was incompetent. I imagine they tried to sweep it under the rug.

Yep, the poor souls.