Cold Cases

What foul weather we have had over the last few days a real touch of winter. It hailed slightly about midday Friday 28th September, 2007. The weather man forecast snow this evening, at this point I reckon he's right.

I was reading in the Sun Herald this week that the police are opening a cold case of a hit and run from nearly 30 years ago. Why do this? because the rumour still persists that a police car was the one that killed the man. So they are trying with modern technology to prove their innocence.

I also read the book "The Lady of the Swamp" by Richard Shears (Sphere Books 1981). It has been nearly 29 years since bones were found (1978) in a grave about five kilometres from the home stead where Margaret Clement lived and vanished from in approximately 1952.

The bones were kept by the police and not buried as the coroner ruled they did not have the technology to identify the bones to his complete satisfaction.

Now if the police are going to dig up a cold case to investigate why not have those bones looked at today. I'm sure there must be someone who can say for sure if they are the bones
1. of a native woman or a Caucasian woman
2. the age of the bones and
3. approximately how long they were in the soil and
4 finally how the person died.

I for one would be more interested in this than the hit and run, though of course the man's family would want to know the truth surroundering his death.