It’s not often that I get to post about new discoveries that may help solve old crimes. From a BBC article yesterday, “Scientists have developed a technique to estimate the age of a suspect from blood left at a crime scene.” “The work by a team in the Netherlands has been published in the journal […]

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I recently gave advice to a family member about contacting a cold case unit, and I thought other people might benefit from this advice. I’m only copying in the section of my email that might be useful to others, and I’m removing any identifying details. “There are unfortunately so many unsolved murders, all of which […]

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Someone recently asked me how many detectives are in the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad. There are now only nine. There were twenty-seven when I wrote my book and I was told that there were around fifty when the unit started (although there are 40 in the early group shot below, minus the commanding officers). The […]

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I’ve been cringing ever since the story broke alleging that the NYPD is basically doing what they can to make their crime stats appear better than they are. Leonard Levitt makes some interesting points about it in his September 6th post on his blog (that link will always take you to the current post so […]

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