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Entries Tagged as 'Cold Case Squads'

Congratulations Montgomery County Police Cold Case Squad

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Last year I posted briefly about the Montgomery County Police Cold Case Squad’s efforts to solve the 1982 murder of Wendy Lou Stark. I just learned that they solved it. From the beginning of the Washington Post article about the case:
“Montgomery County Detective Joe Mudano was searching an evidence supply [...]

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Are Cold Case Squads Proliferating?

November 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Every author has to have a website, but when I created this one I tried to make it useful, so that it wasn’t just about promoting my book, (not that that wasn’t important to me, I am human and have to make a living).
I spent a summer calling police departments all over the country [...]

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Tags: Cold Case Squads · Practical Info for Families and Friends of Victims

Civil Rights Cold Case Bill

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Last Wednesday the House passed a bill that will provide $10 million for the next ten years to go towards clearing close to 100 civil rights cold case murders. The bill includes $2 million per year for state and local law enforcement agencies.
76 of the cases came from the Southern Poverty Law Centre, [...]

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Tags: Cold Case Squads · Old Murder Cases

Unsolved Sex Crimes Units

March 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I recently got email from Detective Mark Pfeiffer of the Fairfax County Police Department’s Cold Case Unit. He was giving me some corrections to my list of cold case units. I became aware that Fairfax has a unsolved sex crime unit.
I am so glad to hear that unsolved sex crimes units are [...]

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