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NewsApril 17, 2025

Chicago Police Applicant Charged After Confessing to Sexual Assault During Polygraph Exam

Stephone Arnold, 30, his 35-year-old brother, Sherrow Harris, and their now-deceased cousin developed a scheme in which Arnold posed as a robber and “forced” the other two men to rape the women at gunpoint in September 2016, prosecutors say.

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NewsJune 20, 2024

Florida Detectives Crack 1986 Murder of Bodybuilder

The man who has been identified by detectives as the killer is Harry Van Collier, an acquaintance of the victim who was killed seven months after Halpern was murdered.

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NewsJanuary 18, 2024

Trial of Man Accused of Murdering Maryland Deputy in 1971 Ends in Mistrial

A jury in Montgomery County began deliberating Friday after a week-long trial that turned on whether Larry David Smith was recently coaxed into admitting to the crime.

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NewsJanuary 12, 2024

Federal Grant Helping Idaho Investigators Close Cold Cases

The grant ISP is using is part of the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, a program through the Bureau of Justice Assistance to help transform how law enforcement handles sexual assault cases.

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Articlesby David GriffithDecember 21, 2023

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.

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NewsNovember 17, 2023

Arizona Investigators Identify Teen Girl Found Dead in 1992

She was identified as 15-year-old Melody Harrison, who was reported missing from Phoenix in June 1992. Officials credited the "persistent" and long-lasting efforts of police investigator Stephanie Bourgeois.

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NewsAugust 9, 2023

Miami-Dade Police Find Multiple Crime-Connected Cars in Lake

Some cars in the lake could date back to an international feud in the 1970s and 1980s between Colombian drug cartels and the United States government, a period known as the Miami drug wars.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 7, 2022

MD Investigators Solve 51-Year-Old Cop Killing

In October 2021, the 50th anniversary of Captain James Tappen Hall’s homicide, detectives from the Cold Case Unit decided to review the case.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 28, 2022

Charlotte Officers Working with Nonprofit to Close Cold Cases

The department is working with the North Carolina Unidentified Project, a group that helps departments pay for the advanced forensic technology needed to identify victims.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 13, 2022

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.

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