Metro Birmingham, Ala. - Crime Stoppers detectives hope your anonymous tips can help them locate people in three new cases.  Case details are below.

Maurice Shanklin:  Police say 23-year-old Maurice Shanklin lives in Parrish, hangs out in Jasper, and is wanted by authorities in Fultondale.  He faces warrants for burglary and robbery first degree.  If you can help detectives find Shanklin, give Crime Stoppers an anonymous call.  If your tip is the first to lead to his arrest, you qualify for a cash reward.

Center Point Homicide:  Detectives are learning more about the final hours of Jimmy Brandon Edwards, a 26-year-old man whose body was found between two houses along 2nd Way Northwest earlier this month.

Now, there are three men who can help in the case.  Matthew Hale, Chaning Pearson, and Aloysius Finn are all described as persons of interest.

"We feel they do know something about what happened that night, and we need their information to put all the puzzle pieces together," Jefferson County Lieutenant Bill Musgrove said.

The question now is where Hale, Pearson, and Finn, can be found.  If you know where any of them are, Crime Stoppers needs your anonymous tip.  And there is also a message to Hale, Pearson, and Finn, themselves.

"Give us a call," Musgrove said.  "Let's set something up.  Let us talk to you so we can finish out this murder case."

UAB Theft:  Surveillance video shows a man walking through the halls of UAB Hospital earlier this month.  Detectives say he worked his way into an office and stole the wallet of an employee.  The wallet was in a purse was left unattended in a drawer.

Police say the man then took the victim's ATM card and withdrew cash from Regions Bank at Greensprings Highway and West Valley Avenue.  The man apparently went to a nearby Shell station as well and bought two cartons of cigarettes.

"If he's doing it over there, he's probably doing it somewhere else," Birmingham Sergeant James Lewis said.  "So we need to get this guy off the street because with the economy the way it's going right now, nobody can stand to lose anything."

If you can help in any case, call Crime Stoppers at (205) 254-7777.  Caller ID is never used, and even if you receive the cash reward, you still won't have to give your name.

Encrypted tips can be submitted online by logging onto www.birminghamcrimestoppers.org and clicking on the "submit an online tip" link.

Crime Stoppers is a partnership between local law enforcement, the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce and ABC 33/40.  Together, our goal is to make our community a safer place to live and work.

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