According to the FBI, murder is up 2.1% nationally.
Entries from December 2005
Murder is Up (But Not in NYC)
December 20th, 2005 · Comments Off on Murder is Up (But Not in NYC)
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The Best Competition
December 18th, 2005 · 2 Comments
It’s December, and every December the papers start tracking a competition the NYPD participates in every day of the year, the results of which are announced on January 1st: Getting the Yearly Homicide Totals Down. As of December 11th, there were 508 murders in New York City. Last year, the total was 572. So far […]
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Cold Case Squad in Scotland
December 15th, 2005 · Comments Off on Cold Case Squad in Scotland
I would like to eventually make this site more international. I was sent a pointer to an article here about a new cold case squad in Scotland. The Strathclyde Police have created the Unresolved Case Unit to reinvestigate their unsolved murders.
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The 1945 Sodder Fire
December 12th, 2005 · Comments Off on The 1945 Sodder Fire
I went to West Virginia last week to research a piece I’m doing for NPR about a fire in Fayetteville, WV on December 25, 1945. Five children were believed to have died in the fire, but there was enough weirdness that night and for years afterwards that the family never accepted it. They believed the […]
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