The Daily News ran a piece yesterday about the Cold Case Squad and I need to vent. The headline was “Cold case officers placed on hot seat,” and the spin was that the detectives were not performing and Deputy Chief Joe Reznick was cracking down. “Senior executives of the NYPD are expected to manage and […]

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These two men, Frederick R. Bieber, a medical geneticist: And Charles H. Brenner, a forensic mathematician: … led a study which found that we’d find more bad guys if we start collecting the DNA profiles of relatives of known criminals. From a Washington Post article by Rick Weiss about the study: “In one recent case, […]

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Perhaps clearance rates are going down slowly because police departments are also slowly improving their crime reporting practices? (Am I stating the obvious here?) By the way, there was a great piece about “New York Killers” in the Times recently. Good work, Jo Craven McGinty. The section about clearance rates had some problems, which I’m […]

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Brian DePalma is making a movie about the Black Dahlia. It’s a horrifying case. If you’re not famliar with it, just google “black dahlia,” but it’s got to be among the most famous cold cases. Brian DePalma, I don’t know. He made “Obsession,” a great movie which is a remake of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. […]

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