OREGON COPS RELEASE NEW SKETCH OF 1996 COLD CASE

Cops pushing for new leads in a 1996 cold case have released a new sketch of an unidentified murder victim found dead in rural Oregon.
Suspicious circumstances at the Polk County crime scene lead investigators to believe that the case was a homicide. Her body may have been in the area for as long as a year before it was found.
Read more at Cold Case USA

MISSING MOM AMBER ELKINS' BODY ID'D

THE SEARCH for missing mom Amber Elkins reached a tragic conclusion yesterday, when forensics teams identified her body yesterday.
The 20-year-old vanished on July 24 and cops have charged her boyfriend James David “JD” Clarke, with her murder after a huge amount of blood was found on her abandoned green pickup truck.
According to investigators, he did not help them find the body, of the woman he'd been dating for just over a month.
Instead members of the Texas Equusearch Church her corpse which had been dumped in a wooded area near her home in Humble.
 On Monday, the medical examiner positively identified the body as Amber Chantel Elkins and ruled the cause of death to be homicide.

MEDICAL EXAMINER: CAYLEE ANTHONY 'WAS HOMICIDE'

IN HAPPIER TIMES

TRAGIC tot Caylee Anthony was definitely murdered, but it is impossible to say how Orange County's Chief Medical Examiner told the court in party mom Casey Anthony's murder trial.   
Dr. Jan Garavaglia told the rapt jury she had concluded that the two-year-old's death was a homicide because of three factors.
First, Caylee was not reported missing because she thought an accidental death, such as drowning, would have been reported.
Second, the fact that  Caylee's body was hidden, and finally, the presence of duct tape on Caylee's face led her to believe the tot was definitely murdered, but she could not say how the tot had died.

MISSING2: MICHELLE LE CASE RECLASSIFIED A HOMICIDE

THE FAMILY of a California nursing student who vanished 11 days ago are praying for her return--even though cops fear she's dead. Michelle Le, 26, was last seen leaving a Hayward, Calif. hospital May 27--her car was later found locked blocks away. Forensics have forced detectives to classify the case as a homicide, including surveillance, cell phone records and evidence garnered via search warrants. But her family is not having it.
Her father Son Le said: "To us, if you call something murder case, you have to have a body." He added the family has been kept in the dark

MILITARY LINK IN MYSTERY OF DEAD MAINE BOY?

IS THERE a military link to the tragic death of a young boy in Maine? The unidentified blonde child's body was found on a remote road on Saturday. So far cops have ruled the death as suspicious but add he seemed well cared for. Now, they're seeking the help of Naval Criminal Investigative Service to help ID the child.