Help With Murder Case

Henry Cambron

Henry Cambron

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I have a friend who is a Det. with a local P.D. He is working a murder case and needs some help. A knife was used and the blade broke off. It's stamped "Regent Sheffield" and appears to be a pairing knife. Found in the house were other knives with the same brand name.

He's come up with a dead end finding any current information about the company. I gave him Bernard Levine's name for possible help. Also Mark over at Knifeworld. Does anyone here know anything at all about the company, whether it was bought out and someone may have the old records, etc.

Also, he needs someone to look at the broken blade and a sampling of the other knives (metallurgist), someone who can tell him that the blades were made of the same steel. (It's possible that this person may be called as an expert witness in the case)

THANKS...
 
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Henry Cambron said:
I have a friend who is a Det. with a local P.D. He is working a murder case and needs some help. A knife was used and the blade broke off. It's stamped "Regency Sheffield" and appears to be a pairing knife. Found in the house were other knives with the same brand name.

He's come up with a dead end finding any current information about the company. I gave him Bernard Levine's name for possible help. Also Mark over at Knifeworld. Does anyone here know anything at all about the company, whether it was bought out and someone may have the old records, etc.

Also, he needs someone to look at the broken blade and a sampling of the other knives (metallurgist), someone who can tell him that the blades were made of the same steel. (It's possible that this person may be called as an expert witness in the case)

THANKS...
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Regency Sheffield or Regent Sheffield?

EDIT: Mr. McDonald beat me by a minute. :)
 
Does it say Sheffield, or Sheffield England? The inclusion or not of 'England' will narrow down the time period of its making.
 
Steel type must be determined by chemical analysis .A local metallurgical laboratory ,perhaps a university would be helpfull. Why is the composition of other knives necessary ? Fracture surface woun't tell you much except to match the other end.
 
C_Kyle Does it say Sheffield, or Sheffield England?
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He's out of the office right now. I'll check on that.

mete Why is the composition of other knives necessary ? Fracture surface woun't tell you much except to match the other end.
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I can't speak for him but from experence I would say, in order to find out if the knife came from the kitchen or if the suspect brought it with him. That would help when the case came to trial. Our State crime lab can match up the broken edge to the knife it came from however, the rest of the knife has not yet been found.
 
Just because the steel analysis matches the set in the kitchen does not mean that it won't match another knife brought from another source. . .
 
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Just because the steel analysis matches the set in the kitchen does not mean that it won't match another knife brought from another source. . .
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True. Manufacturers might buy as much as several hundred thousand pounds of steel at a time.
 

When you're working a case like this, you try to anticipate every question that the defense attorney will ask (and have an answer).

"Did you do any sort of analysis on the broken blade to see if it could be a match to the other knives found in the kitchen?" Answering No gives the jury the impression that you did not follow up on every possible lead that you could.

If it matches, that could indicate that the suspect used it because it was handy and the murder was no premeditated.

If it does not match, that could indicate that the crime was premeditated; the suspect had in mind what he was going to do when he when to the house and he brought the knife with him.
 
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You guys were right on the name. And this is the last address he could find for them:

Regent Sheffield
3333 New Hyde Park Rd.
Suite 409
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
(516) 365-8600

C_Kyle Does it say Sheffield, or Sheffield England?
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Only Sheffield



Thanks for all the help...
 
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