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November 16th, 2005

Why did this case go cold?

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Find out tonight.

Wednesday, November 16, 7:00PM
100 Years of Unsolved Murder in New York

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Public Programs, 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th). $15, $10 for students.

The panelists who will tell you:

Vito Spano, former Cold Case Squad Commanding Officer, now a Chief Investigator for the Office of New York State Attorney General.

Dr. Robert C. Shaler, former head of Forensic Biology, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, New York City, now the director of the Forensic Science Program at Pennsylvania State University, and author of Who They Were: Inside the World Trade Center DNA Story (Free Press).

W. Mark Dale, former Director of the New York State Police Laboratory System and the New York City Police Department Laboratory, now the Director of the Northeast Regional Forensic Institute at Albany [link I had is broken].

David Feige, former Trial Chief of The Bronx Defenders, and now on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College, David is currently at work on the forthcoming book, Indefensible (Little, Brown & Co., 2006).

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November 13th, 2005

Solving Cold Cases

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They found an old murder victim. Now what?

Wednesday, November 16, 7:00PM
100 Years of Unsolved Murder in New York

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Public Programs, 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th). $15, $10 for students.

The panelists who will tell you:

Vito Spano, former Cold Case Squad Commanding Officer, now a Chief Investigator for the Office of New York State Attorney General.

Dr. Robert C. Shaler, former head of Forensic Biology, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, New York City, now the director of the Forensic Science Program at Pennsylvania State University, and author of Who They Were: Inside the World Trade Center DNA Story (Free Press).

W. Mark Dale, former Director of the New York State Police Laboratory System and the New York City Police Department Laboratory, now the Director of the Northeast Regional Forensic Institute at Albany.

David Feige, former Trial Chief of The Bronx Defenders, and now on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College, David is currently at work on the forthcoming book, Indefensible (Little, Brown & Co., 2006).

You can register in advance for the “100 Years of Unsolved Murder” panel by calling: 212-817-8215. The program number is 6048.

Or, you can go here: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp/courses/history.html#11

Find the listing for “The Restless Sleep,” click on the name, and then chose one of several options.

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November 7th, 2005

Animal Rescue

I’m an animal lover, so these pictures of the police rescuing a horse are among the photographs I kept from the Photo Unit at One Police Plaza. At least, I hope they are rescuing a horse. They could just be pulling up a dead horse, I suppose.

Before

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After

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November 5th, 2005

Update on a Cold Christmas

One of the Cold Case guys posted this in the comment section.

“Three homicides that happened on Christmas day (RoseMarie and Thomas Uva and Nickolas Guido) have been investigated by the Queens Cold Case Squad and arrests have been made.”

Good work, Queens Cold Case!!

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