This was a first! I look over and see a tweet from the NYPD about a recently solved cold case. You can read about the case here.

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There’s an interesting article about crime reporting in the New York Times today, and the NYPD’s occasional reluctance to make official reports about crimes. My own experience of this happened in 1990’s when my company’s computers had been hacked. Enough expensive damage had been done, so I wanted to report it even though I didn’t […]

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Audio forensics came out of work that began during WWII, when the military was looking for ways to identify enemy voices over the radio. They developed something called a spectrograph which made visual representations of people talking called voiceprints. Like fingerprints, they hoped that it would help them identify speakers. One of the early developers, […]

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I meant to post about this article by Jake Pearson when it first appeared way back in January, but it is still relevant. It’s about a cold case and the NYPD’s Property Clerk Division. The article begins: “A Brooklyn man who has waited nearly three decades for cops to solve his brother’s murder was stunned […]

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