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Entries Tagged as 'Cold Case Squads'

Civil Rights Cold Case Bill

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Last Wednesday the House passed a bill that will provide $10 million for the next ten years to go towards clearing close to 100 civil rights cold case murders. The bill includes $2 million per year for state and local law enforcement agencies. 76 of the cases came from the Southern Poverty Law Centre, which […]

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Unsolved Sex Crimes Units

March 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I recently got email from Detective Mark Pfeiffer of the Fairfax County Police Department’s Cold Case Unit. He was giving me some corrections to my list of cold case units. I became aware that Fairfax has a unsolved sex crime unit. I am so glad to hear that unsolved sex crimes units are being created. […]

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Providence Considers Establishing a Cold Case Squad

November 6th, 2006 · 6 Comments

“It’s not just about taking this old case off the shelf,” says Andy Rosenzweig, director of Cold Case Forum in Newport, RI. “It’s about what are they doing now.” That’s a quote from this article about a possible new cold case unit in Rhode Island. The picture is of Col. Dean M. Esserman, the Providence […]

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New York Magazine Article

October 30th, 2006 · No Comments

New York Magazine has an article about the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad this week called Stiffed: How the NYPD’s elite Cold Case Squad, which investigates long-unsolved crimes, is falling victim to a slow bureaucratic death, by Janelle Nanos.

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