I just heard about a new book that I’m sure will be of interest to readers of this blog. It’s called The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases and it was written by freelance journalist Deborah Halber. Among Halber’s many accomplishments, she was the editor for the magazine of my alma […]

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There’s a new show on BBC America about the early New York police department in the years just following the end of the Civil War. It’s called Copper. I was afraid they were going to white-wash the story a bit, but they haven’t. So if you are interested in law enforcement history, while this is […]

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The Museum of the City of New York recently made a collection of digitized images available online. The New York Public Library has had a searchable database of images for years, but it’s exciting to have a new resource of new images. The MCNY is still getting the kinks out, but I did a search […]

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Why shouldn’t decks of these Missing Persons and Unsolved Homicides cards be distributed to inmates in every prison in New York (and surrounding states)? As I learned researching my book, people invariably talk. The police certainly know this and visit prisons to talk to inmates.  But they can’t go all the time and talk to […]

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