{"id":990,"date":"2010-12-22T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2010-12-22T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:41:11","slug":"new-cold-case-effort-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"New Cold Case Effort in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2010\/12\/20\/2010-12-20_microscopic_traces_of_evidence_formerly_too_small_to_use_can_be_used_to_trap_kil.html?obref=obinsite\">recent article<\/a> in the Daily News begins:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Manhattan prosecutors are dusting off yellowing files and using new technology to screen thousands of unsolved murders for DNA evidence that might finally nab a killer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An unsolved case shouldn&#8217;t be a forgotten case,&#8221; District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said of his new forensic science cold-case unit. Cold cases have been solved with DNA, but Vance&#8217;s office is the first in the city, and perhaps the country, to begin systematically reviewing unsolved murders through the genetic prism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Led by two of the country&#8217;s foremost DNA experts, Manhattan Assistant District Attorneys Martha Bashford and Melissa Mourges, the squad has reopened 95 murder cases since May.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know anything else beyond what is in the article, and it doesn&#8217;t look like this is a group you can approach to have a case looked at, they won&#8217;t say which cases they&#8217;re working on, but bottom line this is good news.  More unsolved murders are going to get a second look and that&#8217;s a very good thing.  I&#8217;ll see if I can find out more after the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I post this picture every year &#8230; happy holidays!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/holidays.jpg\" alt=\"holidays\" title=\"holidays\" width=\"392\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-991\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the Daily News begins: &#8220;Manhattan prosecutors are dusting off yellowing files and using new technology to screen thousands of unsolved murders for DNA evidence that might finally nab a killer. &#8220;An unsolved case shouldn&#8217;t be a forgotten case,&#8221; District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said of his new forensic science cold-case unit. [&hellip;]<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-fY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}