{"id":1347,"date":"2013-06-19T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2013-06-19T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T17:48:07","slug":"getting-help-on-a-cold-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"Getting Help on a Cold Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

People often ask in the comments section about what to do or who to call about an unsolved murder. The answers to those questions are on the left under the heading: Getting Help \u2013 Contacting a Cold Case Squad<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

First read the document titled Before You Contact a Cold Case Squad<\/a>. Then look up the number in the document Cold Case Squad and Other Organizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t find a number for your city or town on my list, call your local police department and ask them if they have a cold case squad or a person in their homicide squad who specializes in cold cases. If they don\u2019t then ask to speak to someone in their homicide squad. If you don\u2019t get what you believe is a decent response, then go to the document on the left titled, Escalating Your Case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you have specific questions after reading through these instructions, or as you go along, please ask here, but come back to see the answer!<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> If you don\u2019t have the information you need to give to the police, you might try going to the library first before contacting them. I give instructions for that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As you gather information, please keep in mind the amazing story of Joselyn Martinez<\/a>. Ms. Martinez really did her homework and as a result, the killer of her father was found and brought to justice. There are so many resources available on the internet now.<\/p>\n

If you are asking for information about a murder victim who is unrelated to you (a murder you read about or that happened near you, or perhaps someone you knew a little) and you\u2019ve always been curious to know what happened, you should also begin online and at the library.<\/p>\n

This is an old picture of Police Laboratory equipment.<\/p>\n

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People often ask in the comments section about what to do or who to call about an unsolved murder. The answers to those questions are on the left under the heading: Getting Help \u2013 Contacting a Cold Case Squad. First read the document titled Before You Contact a Cold Case Squad. Then look up the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-lJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}