Forensic Sciences Newsletter

Volume 2, Issue 1 Spring 2010

Chair’s Column: Our First Year at The Mount Vernon Campus We have finished our first com- ences as a research assistant. Inside this issue: plete academic year at the Prof. Moses Schanfield has re- Mount Vernon campus. On the ceived a summer research grant whole, things have gone well. from the Columbian College Faculty News 2 We share laboratory space in Facilitating Fund. the Acheson Science Center with chemistry, biology and The Dean of the Columbian geography. We are able to College was able to procure Alumni News 2 schedule laboratory work two tenure track positions for mornings and afternoons two the department: an associate or days a week and in the late af- full professor to serve as de- Dr. Walter Rowe, Chair, ternoon the rest of the week. partment chair and an assistant Forensic Sciences Student News 2 We have benefitted from having professor with a background in all forensic science classes in forensic molecular biology. The two adjacent buildings – rather faculty search for a department The Department than spread out in Foggy Bot- chair was unsuccessful this aca- The Detec- 3 tom from E Street to K Street. demic year but may be rein- submitted its appli- tive versus The There are still some challenges stated in the near future. The Forensic Scientists: ahead of us: Next academic year closing date for applications for cation for Forensic our courses will have to comply the assistant professor position with the Mount Vernon time was May 17th and the faculty Education Program AAFS 62nd Annual 7 bands which have evening search committee has begun to classes running 6:10 to 8:00 pm Scientific Meeting evaluate applications. Hopefully, Accreditation Com- and 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm. the search will be completed before the start of the Fall 2010 mission (FEPAC) Graduation 8 Ted Robinson has been able to semester. work out an MOU between the accreditation in University and the Office of the The Department submitted its DC Medical Examiner. Accord- application for Forensic Educa- February. Donors 10 ing to this MOU, sections of tion Program Accreditation ForS 256: Forensic Pathology Commission (FEPAC) accredita- will be taught at the DC Medical tion in February. When the Examiner‟s office by Dr. Marie- application is accepted the De- Lydie Pierre-Louis and her staff partment will have to submit a of pathologists. self-study and have a site visit. We have already completed Department faculty members most of the self-study. In order have had some success in ob- to meet FEPAC requirements, taining research funding. Prof. the Department has also made a Daniele Podini received a quar- number of changes to the pro- ter million dollar grant from the grams of study of the on- National Institute of Justice. campus concentrations. All This grant has allowed Daniele students will be required to to hire a PhD candidate in the conduct an independent re- Department of Biological Sci- search project. This project Page 2 Forensic Sciences Newsletter

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may be a research project gram: In their first semester pare a manuscript for publica- completed as a thesis, as a ForS and at the end of their degree tion; they will also prepare and 295 project or as a part of one program. The graduate semi- deliver a PowerPoint presenta- of the non-law courses. All nar will introduce the students tion on their research. All of research projects which stu- to the and these changes have been ap- dents want to be considered as critical thinking in science, to proved by the Dean‟s office and satisfying the independent re- ethics in forensic science and the Office of the Executive Vice search project requirement will to the professional literature in President for Academic Affairs; be evaluated by a committee of forensic science and crime they will take effect in Fall the full-time faculty. A new scene investigation. When 2010. course, ForS 292: Graduate students at the end of their Seminar, has also been insti- degree programs take the Student News: tuted. All students will be graduate seminar they will take required to take ForS 292 the data from their independ- Leo Rancier, Security twice during their degree pro- ent research project and pre- Management, received a the Marvin C. Beasley, CPP Memorial Scholarship, Faculty News from the National Capitol Chapter of the American Professor Walter Rowe Howland Will Case,” a paper in in Forensic Science” at the Society of Industrial the Last Word Society session. annual meeting of the Mid- Security, International In February, Professor Rowe The Howland Will case was Atlantic Association of Forensic (ASIS). attended the annual meetings discussed in an earlier newslet- Scientists at State College, of the ASTM Committee E30 ter. In April Professor Rowe Pennsylvania. and the American Academy of was an invited speaker at the Heather Charron, Forensic Sciences in Seattle, 4th International Conference of Professor Moses Schanfield Crime Scene Washington. He gave two the Egyptian Forensic Medicine Investigations, and our papers: “The Implications of Authority, which was held in Dr. Schanfield received a new President of the the National Research Coun- Cairo. He gave two presenta- CCAS faculty grant. He also AFSS, was been awarded cil‟s Report Strengthening Foren- tions: “Current State of Foren- presented two posters at the a $1000 scholarship from sic Science In The United States: sic Science in the United American Association of Physi- cal Anthropology meeting in the Association of A Path Forward for Graduate States” and “Chemometrics in Albuquerque. Firearms and Toolmark Forensic Science Degree Pro- Forensic Science.” In May Pro- grams” and “Where There‟s a fessor Rowe gave a paper enti- Examiners (AFTE) Will There‟s a Way: The tled “Statistics and Probability

Alumni News:

John Crews (MS,„00), who took a number of the Department‟s courses as a part of his master‟s de- gree in genetics, was the subject of a profile in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Newslet- ter (“For War Victims, GW Alumnus Finds Missing Pieces of the Puzzle”). John is chief of forensic genetics and laboratory director of the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala.

J.D. Durick (MFS, 2010), co-published an article with Eric Fitterman titled: “ in the Machine: Fo- rensic Evidence Collection in the Virtual Environment.” Digital Forensics Magazine, Issue 2, Spring 2010.

Wesley P. Grose (MFS, 1984) was just elected President of the California Association of Crime Labo- ratory Directors.

Bobbie (BJ) Spamer (MS, „04) one of our CSI graduates, is now Program Manager - Unidentified Per- sons at University of North Texas Center for Human Identification. Volume 2, Issue 1 Page 3

The Psychic Detective versus The Forensic Scientists: Peter Hurkos, Psychic Detective

In his day, Peter Hurkos accounts, they were returning of Washington, between Fort was as well known a psychic as to their home in Apple Grove, Meade and Annapolis. Accord- and are Virginia, after a visit to Carroll ing Maryland Medical Examiner now. In the 1950s and 60s he Jackson's parents in Buckner, Russell Fisher, Mildred Jackson frequently appeared on TV Virginia. The trip should have had been severely beaten; shows where he liked to per- taken only half an hour but the Susan Ann had suffered a frac- form his signature shtick: Start- Jacksons never arrived. The tured skull. Although there ing stopped wrist watches by next day a relative searching was a stocking wrapped around Peter Hurkos thought projection (a mentalist for the missing family found Mrs. Jackson‟s neck, she had trick which digital timepieces their abandoned car on Virginia probably died as a result of have somehow rendered obso- Route 609 near Buckner. strangling on her own blood. lete). Hurkos claimed that his Ironically, mother and daughter psychic powers originated with A police search for the were buried near the site of Hurkos claimed a head injury due to a fall from a missing family turned up noth- another abandoned sawmill. ladder when he was working as ing. Speculation about their Police investigators would fruit- that his psychic a housepainter in Holland be- fate filled newspapers in Vir- lessly search for sawmill work- fore World War II. During the ginia and Washington, DC. For ers who had worked at both powers war his reputation as a psychic example, the March 4, 1959, sawmills. A former sawmill grew when he was imprisoned edition of the Washington worker would make a false originated with by the Nazis. He supposedly Evening Star reported that the confession to authorities. astonished his fellow prisoners Virginia State Police had re- a head injury by accurately predicting their ceived an anonymous letter An ultimately more fruitful fates. After the war Hurkos claiming that the Jacksons were line of investigation would de- due to a fall abandoned his career as a still alive. Unfortunately, this velop when police investigators housepainter for the more ex- letter was quickly shown to be saw a possible link between the from a ladder citing world of entertainment a . The next day newspa- murders of the Jackson family and psychic detection. At one per headlines announced that and the murder of Mrs. Marga- when he was time he claimed to have solved the bodies of Carroll Jackson ret Harold in 1957. Mrs. Har- twenty-seven murders in seven- and his daughter Janet had been old and Army Master Sergeant working as a teen countries. Among the found roughly a mile and a half Roy D. Hudson were parked famous crimes he claimed to west of Fredericksburg, Vir- on a rural road a short distance housepainter in have solved were the theft of ginia, near the site of an aban- from the future site of the the Stone of Scone, the Boston doned sawmill. The father had grave of Mildred and Susan Ann Holland before Strangler murders, the Manson been clubbed with a pistol and Jackson when a bushy-browed Family murders and the Michi- then shot to death. The blow white man confronted them World War II. gan Coed murders. However, struck with the pistol had been with a gun. When the assailant for his biographer Norma Lee so hard that its grips had bro- tried to force the couple into Browning Hurkos‟s greatest ken off. The grips were found the back seat of their car his triumph as a psychic detective by a member of the Fredericks- pistol accidently discharged, the came in the Jackson Family Mur- burg Rescue Squad and turned bullet striking Mrs. Harold in der Case. This case pitted over to police. Because of the the head and killing her in- Hurkos‟s abilities advanced state of decomposi- stantly. Sgt. Hudson bolted for against the skill and determina- tion of both bodies it was im- safety and succeeded in making tion of forensic scientists at the possible to determine the good his escape. Police made a Federal Bureau of Investigation. child's cause of death: She had thorough search of the crime either been smothered by the scene and its environs. In the The Crime weight of her father's body or basement of a cinderblock had died of exposure. shanty nearby they found a On January 11, 1959, Carroll collection of photographs of V. Jackson, his wife Mildred and Further bad news was in semi-nude women and clippings their two young children, Susan store. On March 22 the bodies of magazine articles about sex Ann (five years old) and Janet of Mildred and Susan Ann Jack- crimes. (eighteen months old) disap- son were found in a shallow peared from Louisa County, grave near Gambrills, Maryland, A Washington-area task Virginia. According to press a crossroads hamlet northeast force was formed by police Page 4 Forensic Sciences Newsletter

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from Virginia, Maryland and found and the site of the in the front yard. Hurkos the District of Columbia to Harold murder. In Vienna, also asserted that the mur- solve the murders of the Virginia, a suburb of Wash- derer had actually committed Jackson family. Within days ington, he directed police to nine murders. John Tarmon of the discovery of the bod- the home of John A. Tar- had been questioned earlier ies of Mrs. Jackson and her mon, a 34-year-old trash by police in connection with daughter, law enforcement collector. In Tarmon's ab- their investigation of the authorities advanced the sence, Hurkos and Riesen- Jackson family murders. Melvin Rees, cuffed out- theory that the murderer of man worked for hours on However, investigators were side court the Jackson family was re- Tarmon's wife until she fi- forced to admit to the press sponsible for five other nally agreed to sign involun- that they had no evidence on murders in the Washington, tary commitment papers for which to base any criminal DC, area: The Harold mur- her husband. Tarmon was charge against him. der, the murders of two taken into custody by police teenage girls who were ab- and brought before a three- Hurkos's Triumph Turns ducted together in Beltsville, man lunacy commission to Ashes A Washington- Maryland in 1956 and the shortly after midnight on sniper shooting of two teen- June 10, 1960. Fairfax Shortly before he re- area task force age girls in a Maryland park County Judge J. Mason turned to Miami, Hurkos was in 1955. Despite the efforts Grove headed the commis- interviewed on a Washington was formed by of this task force and of sion. The psychiatric mem- radio station. He predicted Federal law enforcement ber of the panel was none that in two weeks there police from agencies, months passed other than Dr. F. Regis would be further revelations without an arrest. Riesenman! The commis- in the Jackson Family Murder Virginia, sion was rounded out by Case. This would turn out Maryland and Peter Hurkos Comes to Dr. Jesse Cover, the physi- to be a remarkably prescient Town cian for the Fairfax County remark. On June 25 the the District of Jail. After a two-hour hear- front page headlines of Early in June 1960 a local ing, the lunacy commission Washington newspapers an- Columbia to psychiatrist, Dr. F. Regis committed John Tarmon to nounced that FBI agents had Riesenman, hired Peter the Southwestern State arrested Melvin Davis Rees solve the murders Hurkos (who was then living Hospital for the Criminally in West Memphis, Arkansas, in Miami) to come to Wash- Insane in Marion, Virginia. for the murder of Margaret of the Jackson ington to solve the Jackson Harold, the victim of the family. family murders. Dr. Riesen- Later that same day 1957 shooting. The next day man was a staff psychiatrist Hurkos and Riesenman held Rees was also charged in the at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in a celebratory press confer- deaths of Mrs. Jackson and the District of Columbia; he ence to explain how they her daughter Susan Ann. had had a long-standing in- had cracked the Jackson When FBI agents searched terest in paranormal phe- Family Murder Case. Ac- the home of Rees's parents nomena. In company with cording to Hurkos, the im- in Hyattsville, Maryland, a Dr. Riesenman and Virginia age of the murderer and the number of interesting items State Police investigators, murderer's house had be- were turned up, including Hurkos made a whirlwind come plain when he visited a .38 caliber revolver and a tour of locations associ- the grave sites. The perpe- journal describing in detail ated with the murders: trator would have two scars Mrs. Jackson's death. Ulti- The graves of the family in on his left leg and a tattoo mately, Federal and Virginia Apple Grove, the sites in on his arm. Hurkos had state judges would rule the Virginia and Maryland been able to identify the journal inadmissible on Fifth Spotsylvania Courthouse where the bodies had been murderer's house by a chair Amendment grounds; how- ever, the pistol would Volume 2, Issue 1 Page 5

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prove to be Rees's undoing. able to identify the young Special Agent George Berley woman in the picture and testified that impressions of For a year, the FBI had provide her name to investi- tool marks on the inside considered Rees a strong gators. Although she at first surface of one of the pistol suspect in the Jackson Fam- denied knowing Rees, the grips found with Carroll ily Murders. In the course young woman finally ac- Jackson's body matched of the investigation of the knowledged dating him. She machining marks on the Figure 1 murder of Margaret Harold had stopped when she frame of the .38 caliber re- Rees Evidence in 1957 Rees had been volver found in the Rees picked out of a police line- found out he was married. family home. When Rees up by Sgt. Hudson. How- Reporters for the Wash- clubbed Carroll Jackson ever, Maryland police had ington Evening Star con- with the butt of his gun the not had enough evidence at tacted Peter Hurkos and force of the blow embossed Among the that time to charge him with sought his reaction to the an impression of the surface Harold‟s murder. After the arrest of Rees. Hurkos can- of the frame on the inside famous crimes murders of the Jackson fam- didly admitted that he had surface of the plastic grip. ily, the man with whom had no "brain waves" about According to Washington [Hurkos] claimed Rees was sharing a beach Rees. Despite prodding by Post reporter Constance cottage in Norfolk, Virginia, reporters Hurkos declined to have solved Feeley, Berley‟s description had informed the FBI of his to venture an opinion as to of matching the marks on suspicion that Rees was whether or not the FBI had were the theft of the pistol grip to a test im- involved in the Jackson Fam- arrested the right man. pression made from the the Stone of ily murders. According to Hurkos and his supporters frame of the pistol left the Rees's roommate, Rees was would eventually evolve a courtroom in absolute si- Scone, the Boston on his way to Washington convoluted explanation to lence. Berley‟s tool mark the night that the Jacksons account for his misidentifica- match is shown in Figure 1. Strangler disappeared. Rees was a tion of the murderer of the semi-professional jazz musi- Jackson family: Tarmon was murders, the Rees was convicted on cian who supposedly had a an accomplice or he and February 24, 1961. The jury gig in the Washington, DC, Rees had crossed paths, Manson Family did not recommend the throwing Hurkos off the area. death penalty; the judge had murders and the The FBI's arrest of Rees „scent.‟ no choice but to sentence was precipitated by the re- Melvin Davis Rees was him to life in prison. Rees Michigan Coed sults of careful forensic ex- brought to trial in Federal was then remanded to the aminations carried out by court in Baltimore for the custody of Virginia authori- murders. questioned document exam- interstate kidnapping of Mil- ties. He was brought to iners at the FBI laboratory. dred and Susan Ann Jack- trial in Spotsylvania County, Among the soft-core por- son. The .38 caliber re- Virginia, for the murder of nography found in the volver found in the Hyatts- Carroll Jackson. The grand shanty near the scene of the ville home and the gun grips jury had declined to indict Harold murder was a pho- found with Carroll Jackson‟s Rees for the death of Janet tographic portrait of a body were important parts Jackson, possibly because young woman. The picture of the prosecution case. An her cause of death was un- appeared to have been FBI serologist testified that known. George Berley re- clipped from a high school the revolver had traces of peated his testimony about or college yearbook. Even- human blood on it; how- matching marks on the plas- tually FBI document examin- ever, they were too minute tic gun grip to the revolver ers determined that the to type. The slug removed found in Rees‟ parents‟ picture had been clipped from Carroll Jackson‟s body home. Rees was convicted from a University of Mary- was too damaged for a bal- of murder and sentenced to land yearbook. They were listic match. However, FBI death. After a number of Melvin Rees, in prison Page 6 Forensic Sciences Newsletter

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unsuccessful state and Fed- John Tarmon by the Ameri- man and Peter Hurkos. A eral appeals, Rees‟ case can Civil Liberties Union Washington Post editorial reached the US Supreme sought a writ of habeas cor- concluded: Court where it joined two pus for his release from the …[I]t remains a shocking other cases on the Supreme Virginia mental institution to reproach to civilized con- Court‟s Special Docket – a which he had been commit- cepts of justice that such docket of cases which the ted. The psychiatrists at the unsubstantiated evidence Supreme Court declined to institution reported that in as telepathic vibrations hear or decide and which their judgment Tarmon was could be used as the basis Manson Murders: among were continued indefinitely sociopathic but not psy- for depriving a man even the cases Hurkos until the defendants died. chotic. Because he was not temporarily of his liberty. claimed to have solved Rees was apparently in their view insane they deemed too mentally ill to recommended that he be Conclusion participate in formulating his released. In the end Tar- appellate strategy or to par- mon was held for nearly In Jackson Family Mur- ticipate in a new trial should three weeks against his will. der Case Peter Hurkos, one one be granted. In 1985 he Judge Grove ruefully admit- of the world‟s most promi- gave an interview to a re- ted that Dr. Riesenman nent psychic detectives, porter for the Richmond should not have served on accused an innocent man – The psychiatrists at News-Leader in which he the lunacy commission that indeed secured his incar- acknowledged his guilt in committed Tarmon. Judge ceration. Only the dogged the institution re- the Jackson Family murders. Grove probably did not laboratory examinations of ported that in their Rees also admitted shooting know that Dr. Riesenman forensic scientists at the Margaret Harold in 1957. was not quite the disinter- Federal Bureau of Investiga- judgment Tarmon was He also confessed to mur- ested party that he ap- tion had led to the identifi- sociopathic but not dering the two teenaged peared to be. His retaining cation of the actual perpe- Maryland girls in 1956. He of Hurkos to solve the mur- trator and his eventual con- psychotic. Because he did not confess to the 1955 ders should have suggested viction. Hurkos learned was not in their view sniper slaying. Governor a lack of objectivity on his nothing from his experience Gerald Baliles of Virginia part. Reisenman also appar- in the Jackson Family Mur- insane they recom- commuted Rees‟ death sen- ently had a more serious der Case. Shortly after this mended that he be tence to life in prison in conflict of interest: Accord- case, Hurkos was involved 1988. Virginia‟s death pen- ing to Hurkos' biographer in the Michigan Coed Mur- released. alty had been overturned by Norma Lee Browning, two der Case; again he directed the US Supreme Court in of Dr. Riesenman's own police attention at an inno- 1972 and the governor ap- patients had been ques- cent man (like Tarmon al- parently wished to bring tioned by police about the ready a police suspect). Rees‟ sentence into confor- murders. Ironically, Hurkos‟s involve- mity with the Supreme Tarmon sought unsuc- ment in that case did lead Court‟s ruling. Rees died in cessfully to sue the Virginia indirectly to the arrest of Federal custody of natural State Police and local inves- serial killer John Norman causes in 1995, having spent tigators who had collabo- Collins. Collins committed decades under heavy medi- rated with Hurkos for his his last murder as a chal- cation. detention and commitment. lenge to Hurkos, but left He claimed that these offi- behind evidence that led to cers had roughed him up his conviction. The Trashman's Progress when he was taken into custody. Tarmon appar- Shortly after the arrest ently did not attempt to of Melvin Davis Rees a law- pursue the principal authors yer retained on behalf of of his woes: F. Regis Riesen- Volume 2, Issue 1 Page 7

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Further Reading: long-time residents of the Unfortunately, these Washington, DC, area will Few if any of the pub- authors accept psychic de- find case S-3 (disbarment lished accounts of the Jack- tection as a real phenome- proceedings against Diana son Family Murder Case get non. Finally, Gabriel J. Chin Kearny Powell) of consider- Rees House all of the essential facts cor- and Sara Lindenbaum pro- able interest. rect. The above article is vide fascinating accounts of the result of a careful re- the three cases on the Su- view of contemporaneous preme Court‟s Special Join US! articles in the Washington Docket in “Reaching Out to Hurkos and his Post, the Washington Eve- Do Justice: The Rise and Fall supporters would ning Star and several Virginia of the Special Docket of the newspapers from 1959 U.S. Supreme Court” Ari- eventually evolve through 1995. zona Legal Studies, Discus- sion Paper No. 10-04 (The For more info, go to: http:// a convoluted ex- For the pro-Hurkos ver- University of Arizona James www.thetrainingco.com/html/ sion of the case see Norma E. Rogers College of Law: TechnoForensics2010.html planation to ac- Lee Browning‟s The Psychic February 2010). This is World of Peter Hurkos available online at http:// count for his mis- (Doubleday: 1976). Arthur papers.ssrn.com/sol3/ identification of Lyons and papers.cfm? offer a more skeptical view abstract_id=1549697. Chicago, Illinois - February 21-26, 2011 the murderer of of Hurkos in the Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime Graduates of The George For more info, go to: http:// the Jackson fam- (Mysterious Press: 1992). Washington University and www.aafs.org/aafs-2011-annual- meeting ily: Tarmon was an accomplice or AAFS 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting he and Rees had crossed paths, Poster Sessions throwing Hurkos off the ‘scent.’

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