Archive for the 'murders' Category

The Evidence Against Joel Courtney: Major Update

Cidu Bill on Apr 20th 2008

  • The initial report released listed circumstantial evidence that was weak at best, leading to an interesting discussion of whether a jury should convict a defendant based on the firm belief that he’s guilty even if the evidence is lacking.The D.A. has now made public some significantly more persuasive evidence (updated article, and your comments)

Filed in Bill Bickel, Brooke Wilberger, Crimeweek, Joel Courtney, crime, evidence, missing women, murders | No responses yet

A Bad Day for Wife Killers and Suspected Wife Killers

Cidu Bill on Feb 21st 2008

Filed in Drew Peterson, Stacy Peterson, Steven Grant, Tara Grant, missing women, murders, sentencing | No responses yet

Do We Really Need To Know Steven Kazmierczak’s Name?

Cidu Bill on Feb 18th 2008

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crimeweek, Northern Illinois University, Steven Kazmierczak, crime, murders | No responses yet

”Everyone in the world knows he did it”

Cidu Bill on Jan 30th 2008

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crimeweek, New Yorker, crime, murders, trials | No responses yet

The Price of Murder: $24.71

Cidu Bill on Jan 12th 2008

The old All Info About Crime site and the fairly-new Crimeweek.wordpress.com site are both gone, replaced by Crimeweek (http://www.crimeweek.com). After all the help I was given getting the bugs out of the new CIDU site, I hope to be able to whip this one into shape fairly quickly.

The $24.71 refers to Stephen Grant’s first payment on the $50 million he was ordered to pay to the family of his murdered wife…

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crimeweek, O.J. Simpson, Stephen Grant, Tara Grant, civil judgments, crime, murders | No responses yet