A great detective, Sonny Archer, is in critical condition at North Shore Hospital, Manhasset, NY, and could use your prayers. I will post more about him later, but he started out with the Transit Police, was one of the original members of the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad and is currently a 1st grade detective in […]

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This year New York joined Colorado and California as states that now use familial DNA to try to solve cold cases. From Wikipedia: “Familial DNA database searching (sometimes referred to as “Familial DNA” or “Familial Searching”) is the practice of creating new investigative leads in cases where DNA evidence found at the scene of a […]

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“Two days after Thanksgiving, a grandmother was brutally murdered inside the Pawtucket home where she’d lived for most of her life. The next month, a Providence man was found in a puddle of blood inside his house, where the bars on the windows and spike-topped fence had failed to keep his killer away. In both […]

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Hello! Is that Detective Wendell Stradford in the back there? I wasn’t aware when I first wrote that NYPD detectives were investigating serial killer Rodney Alcala that I knew one of the investigators. The ABC news story about the case can be viewed here. Alcala will be extradited to New York to stand trial for […]

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