I’m a little slow. I always wondered why guys in mug shots looked somewhat deformed. “That’s because someone just beat the crap out of them,” a Cold Case Squad commander explained. Oh. “We don’t do that anymore,” he added.

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The first Cold Case Squad was in Florida. In 1979, the Metro-Dade Police Department (now the Miami-Dade Police Department) created the first cold case squad in the United States. They called it the Pending Case Squad. There were some problems, and the squad was disbanded. They tried again in 1983 and solved a 1982 murder […]

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