There’s a great article by Matt Stiles and Terri Langford in the Houston Chronicle called “Murder figures can be hard to solve.”
From the article:
Dr. Charles Wellford, professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, pointed out how a police “cold case” unit in Kansas City brought another 15 solved cases for a [...]

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I was just reading a piece in the Boston Globe titled, Hub police show no gain in solving homicides. There’s a lot I could say, but I’m caught up in the inauguration excitement and not very focused.  
A few things in the piece jumped out at me. “He beefed up the unit to 25 detectives, [...]

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I have a few articles I want to link to.
In keeping with my ongoing obsession with evidence storage, the first is to a Newark Star-Ledger article by Guy Sterling and Rick Hepp titled, N.J.’s lack of rules for storing forensic evidence hinders convicts. It begins:  
“In 1991, two years after the first DNA exoneration [...]

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I noticed that from time to time people look for pictures of Jean Sanseverino. Jean was murdered on State Street in Brooklyn on March 8, 1951.  The following is from my book (a DD5 is the name of the forms the detectives use to document what they do): 
“There were 243 murders committed in New York in [...]

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