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Entries Tagged as 'Practical Info for Families and Friends of Victims'

Parents of Murdered Children

February 26th, 2006 · Comments Off on Parents of Murdered Children

One of the cases I wrote about involved a child, 14-year-old Christine Ann Diefenbach, who was murdered on Sunday, February 7, 1988. I can see why cases involving children get to detectives more. It’s simply unendurable. While researching this case I spent some time on the Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) website. They have online […]

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The Cold Case Center

February 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on The Cold Case Center

I go to the Cold Case Center [link I had is broken] to see which cold cases made the news. It’s interesting to browse the titles of the articles alone, and to see which parts of the country are active. Actually, it’s interesting how many there are daily, compared to two years ago, when I […]

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The Vidocq Society

January 8th, 2006 · Comments Off on The Vidocq Society

Fred Martens, the former head of the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, who helped me when I was working on the Sodder story, is a member a crime solving organization called The Vidocq Society, (named for an 18th century french detective). From their website: Our Mission & Credo The Vidocq Society is dedicated to dealing with long-unsolved […]

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Undeclared Homicide and Missing Persons

November 20th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Losing someone is hard. Not knowing what happened, or who killed them makes it harder. Then there is the unbearable pain of not knowing anything at all: the missings persons case. Someone disappeared. That’s all the family and friends of this person know and in some cases that is all they ever will know. They […]

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