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Virginia Sheriffs' Offices Searching Cold Cases for Link to Missing UVA Student

Police reveal there may be a new forensic link with the missing UVA student case and other cold cases in Virginia.

October 1, 2014

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Can Giving Playing Cards to Inmates Crack Cold Cases?

About 3,000 inmates in the Travis County, Texas, jail system are about to get new decks of playing cards. And the right card in the hands of the right inmate could help crack homicide or missing person cold cases. Read Full Story Here.

May 21, 2014

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Man Gets Life for 1996 Killing of N.C. Officer

On Oct. 5, 1996, Scott Vincent Sica fired a 9 mm Beretta handgun nine times at police Sgt. Gregory Keith Martin during a traffic stop, according to testimony in Yadkin Superior Court. Sica was 20 at the time; Martin was 30.

March 25, 2014

Gangs

The Fallacy of Gun Buyback Programs

What you usually see in any gun buyback program is elderly people turning in old junk guns from some closet or garage where they have sat gathering dust for many years.

December 25, 2013

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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

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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

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SCOTUS Allows DNA Swabs During Arrests

The 5-4 ruling came in Maryland v. King, where a convicted rapist had argued his Fourth Amendment privacy rights were violated when police used DNA to connect him to an earlier crime.

June 2, 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

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$50K Reward Offered In Va. Trooper's 1984 Killing

Almost three decades after the murder of Virginia Trooper Johnny Bowman, law enforcement authorities offered a $50,000 reward in hopes of solving the cold case.

August 14, 2012

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Man Charged In Ala. Cop's 2002 Slaying

Birmingham (Ala.) Police this afternoon announced they have filed charges against a man in the 2002 shooting death of Birmingham Police Officer Joseph Jerome Daniels.

July 26, 2012

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Utah Detective Honored for Solving Cold Cases

Park began working on cold cases full-time in 2005 and estimates he has solved around a dozen crimes — some of them many decades old — bringing closure to family members of victims who have sought answers for years.

July 18, 2012

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Homeless Man Stops Mont. Cop, Confesses To 25-Year-Old Murder

A homeless man approached a Billings (Mont.) Police officer outside of police headquarters and confessed to the murder of a county official in Oklahoma in 1987.

April 23, 2012