I recently heard about a new magazine from The International Academy of Forensic Professionals. From their website: “IAFP is pleased to announce the launch of our journal, the Forensic Digest. The Digest is dedicated to contributing to the body of already existing forensic knowledge through the publication of wide and varied articles of general and […]

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Jerry Mitchell, investigative journalist for the Jackson, Mississippi newspaper, The Clarion-Ledger just won a $500,000 “genius award,” from the MacArthur Foundation.  I mention this here because Mitchell not only writes about cold-case murders from the civil rights era, his work has helped put murderers in jail. From his paper: “Since 1989, the 50-year-old investigative reporter for The […]

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I just became aware of a great use of Blog Talk Radio. First, if you don’t know what Blog Talk Radio is, from their website: “BlogTalkRadio is the social radio network that allows users to connect quickly and directly with their audience. Using an ordinary telephone and computer hosts can create free, live, call-in talk […]

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 I noticed that the website for the Baltimore County Police Department’s Homicide Unit, Unsolved Case Squad has cases going back to the 1970’s. The picture is of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, a victim from 1970.  Perhaps her case is, realistically, still a long shot, but I like that her picture is up there and that the detectives are still trying […]

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