This is a very sad case where life imitates art. CSI fans will remember that this has happened on the show before too. It became a huge investigation to find out why the man lit on fire. Not to mention the fact that the victim in that episode was fried to a crisp.
But for homeless man 31-year-old Daniel Wood, it became his reality this week. He ignited when police officers tasered him when he resisted arrest. In his case, though, he had a small fire and the police were able to put it out with their hands. He only suffers …read more

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I was out listening to music and having a drink with friends last week in Las Vegas when we struck up a conversation with some women at the table next to us. One of them, it turns out is an undercover Las Vegas police officer! I just had to ask her to talk to me a bit about what it’s like for her to work there in the “city of sin.”
I’ll call her Fran, but it’s not her real name. She’s a petite, pretty woman, but with a handshake like a vice. It’s plain that in her case, looks …read more

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You have seen him on CSI: Vegas playing the recurring role of firearms tech Bobby Dawson. But his real name is Gerald McCullouch. According to TV Guide, while he was working on his laptop on the New York subway, a man jumped him and tried to steal the laptop. He fought back by punching the man.
“That’s when he pulled a kitchen knife out of a black plastic bag,” McCullouch said. “This thing must have had a blade 10 inches long. …I yelled at the top of my lungs, ‘Get the [bleep] away from me!’ That’s when …read more

Now and then a new show comes along that promises to give fans of crime dramas more of what they love. This time, it’s a new real-life series called Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force. The show will premiere tomorrow, December 9 at 10:00pm ET/PT on A&E, and follows the elite agents of the NY/NJ Division in the heart of New York City, the most active unit in the country, as they track down a different dangerous felon in each episode.
Fans of such shows as The First 48 and Crime 360 will be excited about this new show that follows real crime …read more

Fans of the lovely Emily Procter don’t have to wait until CSI:Miami premieres this fall to get to see her in something new. There’s a brand new show that she’ll be a part of, starting tonight!
HGTV’s Summer Showdown premieres tonight at 10/9c and one of the celebrity judges for the four-episode series is Emily Procter. Some of HGTV’s best makeover experts will be going head-to-head in a challenge to redesign some very difficult rooms. A panel of celeb judges will choose which design is the best each week. And since Emily Procter has such good taste, she was chosen …read more

This week, we saw a significant event in the investigation of the 1996 JonBenet Ramsey murder case. Investigators were able to use Touch DNA to exclude the Ramsey family from the suspect list. When I saw this reported, my first question was, “What the heck is touch DNA?” Apparently, I wasn’t the only person wondering. Here’s a clip from CBS Early Show where Harry Smith speaks with forensic scientist Angela Williamson, the investigator who worked on the case, and she explains the new technique to us.
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This episode of CSI: Vegas was incredible! It’s hard to beat the fun packed into this hour –or 42 minutes. Do you agree?

Are there not enough lawsuits involving Tasers?
Why did they change “thiocyanate” to “thiocyte”? I’m mystified by this.
What did you think about all that green blood? Is that feasible? Did they sufficiently justify the sulfur/drug idea?
Did you just love the way they inserted (with no explanation) Adam & Jamie from Mythbusters into the lab when they were using Mythbuster-esque test tactics? How fun was that?
How campy was this episode? Did you love it, as I did?
Cyanide-sniffers?
Killer ground squirrels?
What are …read more

According to the GWHatchet, next month, Washington DC willget a brand new, one-of-a-kind museum. It’s The Crime and Punishment Museum, which was co-developed by John Walsh, host of the America’s Most Wanted show, and it will be the first museum dedicated to the history of American crime.
“There’s no other museum that focuses on just crime and punishment,” said Janine Vaccarello, chief operating officer of the museum. “There’s nothing like this available for anyone to go check out and explore and to feel like they’ve touched history.”
John Walsh, who lost his own son in a violent crime, wanted to be sure …read more

While we’re still waiting for those new CSI episodes, we’ll get to check out another real-life CSI show. Here’s some information about Crime 360:
Crime 360 pairs real-life criminal investigations with cutting-edge forensic technology for the first time on television in the groundbreaking original real-life series CRIME 360, premiering Thursday, March 6 at 10 PM ET/PT.
CRIME 360 takes viewers inside actual investigations as they unfold, using state-of-the-art 360-degree digital photography and incredible CGI (computer-generated imagery) visualizations to bring the evidence, and the evolving theories about what happened, to life. Each one-hour episode begins the moment detectives are called …read more

There’s a lot of controversy about the use of DNA. It has its fans, and its haters. But law enforcement officials all over the world are now finding that they can close cold cases by checking DNA with that of the criminals they already have in custody.
Here’s a case in point. In New South Wales, law officials have managed to close 300 unsolved cases in the past year, just by comparing with the DNA of prisoners.
Police Minister David Campbell says, “Those people in jail for existing offences have been linked to [other] crimes that they’ve also committed as …read more