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Cold Case Interrogations
In many instances, the suspect in a cold case turns out to be someone who is serving time for another crime. What are the considerations for conducting custodial interrogation of such a prisoner, insofar as Miranda and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel are concerned?
February 28, 2007
Technology
Cold Cases: National Databases and Cold Case Investigations
The FBI administers several national databases that have played a critical role in numerous cold case investigations.
April 30, 2003
Special Units
Georgia Cold Case Squad Cracks First Case
The Gwinnett County Police Department’s newly minted cold case squad has cracked its first case — a 2007 fatal shooting of a Norcross teenager who was working at a gas station.
January 7, 2009
Investigations
10 Tips for Successful Cold Case Investigations
Building and maintaining an effective cold case unit involves assigning the right personnel, training them, and giving them the necessary resources and support.
December 21, 2023
Training
Inside the Mind of a Cold Case Detective
The first thing a good investigator, especially a cold case investigator, needs to know is that you can't base your conclusions on past experiences because those experiences are not foolproof. The only way to solve a decades-old murder is through hard work.
October 21, 2014
Technology
Missouri Inmates to Get Cold-Case Playing Cards
In Missouri, the cards feature details about unsolved murders, missing persons and fugitives. Missouri State Patrol Sgt. Jason Clark said his agency had enough cold cases to fill several 52-card decks. So they had to be selective. The Brooks case has frustrated authorities because the young girl is believed to be dead and her body has never been found, despite promising suspects over the years.
January 9, 2009
Patrol
Lawsuit Charges LAPD Detective with Ignoring Cold Case Evidence
A veteran cold case detective ignored a key piece of evidence in an unsolved slaying, delaying for several years the eventual discovery that Stephanie Lazarus, a Los Angeles police officer, was guilty of the killing, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
October 30, 2013
Technology
Facebook Helps N.Y. Police Solve 45-Year-Old Cold Case
A former Fulton, N.Y., resident living in Florida provided the name of 62-year-old Douglas Parkhurst after reading a retired detective's Facebook post about the cold case.
April 23, 2013
Special Units
Kansas City Chief Disbands Cold Case Squad Because of Staffing Issues
“We used to have a missing person cold case squad, and just two weeks I disbanded that to put them back into regular homicide and regular assault squad because we don’t have enough regular detectives,” Chief Rick Smith said.
April 13, 2022
Patrol
Michigan Detective Shot, Seriously Wounded Serving Cold Case Warrant
State Police Detective Sgt. Aaron Steensma of the Marshall Post was shot in the chest while serving a search warrant at a residence in Union City in a cold case investigation. He was listed in serious but stable condition at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, according to Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue, director of state police.
January 24, 2018
Special Units
Man Charged with Murder in 1957 Cold Case
A retired gas-station owner was arrested at his home in a suburb of Columbia, South Carolina, and charged with murdering two police officers in 1957 in El Segundo, California.
February 6, 2003
Technology
How to...Open a Cold Case
A few months ago, newspapers around the country covered the arrest of Gerald Mason for a murder that happened when Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House. Mason was rousted out of a comfortable life in South Carolina and charged with killing two police officers in the Los Angeles suburb of El Segundo, Calif. In 1957.
April 30, 2003
Technology
Drug Task Force Delivers Suspect in Cold Case Homicide Using Vigilant Solutions LPR
The 21st Judicial District Drug Task Force in Tennessee used its Vigilant Solutions license plate reader (LPR) system to bring to justice a suspect in a cold case homicide from 2002.
February 11, 2016
Patrol
Phoenix Detectives Close Cold Murder Case
Fingernail clippings taken from a murder victim in 1982 helped Phoenix police make an arrest in the killing last week, after tests confirmed that DNA found under the victim’s nails matched that of a convicted sex offender.
October 27, 2013
Technology
DNA Technology Cracks 1981 Cold Case in Minnesota
Law enforcement officials are still not sure how the body of 17-year-old Carolyn Lee Andrew ended up in a shallow grave in Duluth's Twin Ponds in 1981. But thanks to DNA technology, nearly 34 years later, authorities believe they've finally determined the identity of her killer.
February 3, 2015
Patrol
Video: Ex-LAPD Detective 'Shocked' by Arrest In Cold Case
New interrogation-room videos released this week show LAPD detectives questioning and arresting one of their own as a suspect in the 1986 murder of a woman who had married her ex-boyfriend.
November 23, 2010
Technology
Iowa Volunteer Hired as Digital Forensics Specialist After Helping Solve Cold Case
Investigators were looking into the November 2012 mysterious disappearance of Cari Farver. She disappeared and was never seen again, but her family and friends kept receiving bizarre texts, emails and social media posts.
October 19, 2017
Patrol
Pennsylvania Police Crack Cold Case with DNA, Genetic Genealogy Database
Police in Pennsylvania have made an arrest in the 1992 rape and murder of Christy Mirack, an elementary school teacher in Lancaster.
June 26, 2018
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