Rosemary's License

The driver's license says she was born in 1929, but I have always been under the impression that she was younger.  Every thing I've read says she's 38 when she died, now this makes her 39, going on 40.  She has pretty handwriting, but that picture makes her look so MATRONLY, and from the pictures I've seen of her, she was really sort of chic. That is really neat, and where on earth did you find this picture at????  Thanks for posting it.

Check the link at the top of the page. It's from a newscast, and they go into the evidence room. Tammie

That's one of the better news clips....... Thanks tammie

No problem. I see something that looks good, I post it. LOL, Tammie

great find Rhiannon...

it's really neat that they talked to the reporter who found the clothes as well ... not just the licence

Wow. In New York we didn't have pics on our licenses till the 80's. Great pic.

Does anybody else find it odd that nobody went to reclaim Rosemary's wallet? I know it's not valuable, like jewelry or something. Maybe I'm being weird but I think I'd want one of the last vestiges of my mother. (I might be way off-base here, though. I'm just thinking of personal experience - when my grandmother died, my dad gave me her wallet, including all its contents, such as her driver's license. And I really treasure it.)

When my mother died one month before my son left for basic training, he asked if he could have her license. He informed me recently that when he was in Afghanistan, he carried her license with him as he believed it would help keep him safe. Three years in, so far, so good....

I will keep him in my prayers and please thank him for his service. We who have never served can't possibly imagine what that must be like.
FB

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that once they got convicted then personal items would be released if asked for. I'm not sure.

Some items of evidentiary value would be kept for appeal purposes. Other items, if peripheral in nature of evidentiary value would be released. If not requested, it would not be released, it would sit in a case file to either remain forever or later be destroyed.

Cats is correct...
Especially if it was homicide related...all homicidal evidence is kept indefinitely..even coins, cash and jewelry and personal items.

I worked in Personnel (for a law enforcement agency) and was responsible for retrieving badges and other department property that were not returned after the officer left the department - one of them was a deputy that was killed on duty...when I tracked down the missing badge, it was in the DA's vault...when I called them, they laughed at me and said "honey, that's 187 PC evidence, your department will NEVER get that back, so just forget about it"....

And its not just the DA's office that holds the items, most agencies have their own property and evidence storage - I know for a fact that anything related to homicide is never destroyed or auctioned, at least not in the agency I worked for. I've seen homicide detectives revisit old cases and ask to see/view evidence 50+ years old, and some of these were not cold cases, one was actually looking for an article to collect DNA from to implicate the criminal in another case.

Is that including the clothes the victims were wearing? I know Sharon's bra and panties were in evidence and one of the prosecution or defense lawyers was handling it and grossed another one out when he ended up with dried blood on his hands. He shrugged it off and said "it's only blood."

I believe what you're saying, you worked there, but to be clear ... if someone is murdered wearing a million-dollar necklace that has blood on it, and it was collected as evidence and used at trial, and let's assume that it was also presented as evidence on appeal, then the family couldn't get back that necklace after the trials were finished?