My numbers are rough because I don’t have access to all the information I need to be able to say these are hard numbers, but they are pretty good. In New York you’re twice as likely to be murdered if you’re black. (That’s the figure that’s rough.) However, for the United States overall in 2005, […]

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Oh my god. There’s an article in today’s USA Today about DNA hits that law enforcement didn’t pursue. From the article. ” … a USA TODAY investigation found almost three dozen cases during the past five years — including a rape in Virginia — in which investigators failed to pursue potential suspects whose DNA matched […]

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On the West Yorkshire Police website, there is only this stark announcement: Monday, November 7, 2006 This is an update in connection with the death of eleven-year-old Lesley Molseed whose body was found in Rippenden in October 1975. A 53-year-old man has been charged with murder and is due to appear at Calderdale Magistrates Court […]

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“It’s not just about taking this old case off the shelf,” says Andy Rosenzweig, director of Cold Case Forum in Newport, RI. “It’s about what are they doing now.” That’s a quote from this article about a possible new cold case unit in Rhode Island. The picture is of Col. Dean M. Esserman, the Providence […]

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