Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

Description

Cases in which all investigative leads appear to be exhausted are frustrating for both investigators and victims’ families. Cold cases can range from those only a few months old to others that go back for decades. Presenting profiles and actual case histories, Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing and Cold Homicide Cases illustrates how investigators can successfully apply resources that will enable them to reopen and solve cases gathering dust in the file room. Today’s investigators have found that, to solve cold cases, they need to be internet savvy and make the best use of the rapidly changing methodologies of the twenty-first century, but they also have to be time travelers and open the door to the past. This volume weaves together the nearly forgotten skill sets of traditional historical researchers with the latest online tools, including TLO, a premier investigative system; and NamUs, the revolutionary database for missing persons and unidentified remains. Along with practical applications, Cold Case Research gives investigators the tools they need to save time and money and to jump-start their cold cases, while keeping others from going cold in the future. Topics discussed include: Implementing cold case units People searches and working with databases Overlooked DNA in PKU cards The plight of the missing and unknown Applying historical and geographical context Online and off-line newspaper research Public and published records The use of volunteers Contact with co-victims Cold-case review teams and information-sharing resources Taking advantage of the media Using a thinking-outside-the-box approach, this volume helps fill major gaps in traditional cold case investigation training and techniques, enabling investigators to confidently reopen and crack the mystery of cases long thought unsolvable. Silvia Pettem was quoted in a January 29, 2012 article on missing persons in the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Other editions

• 

  Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide...

  • 2012-07-27
  • 337 pages
  • Ebook
  • CRC Press
• 

  Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide...

  • 2012-07-27
  • 333 pages
  • Ebook
  • CRC Press

Similar books

• 

  Someone's Daughter: In Search of Justice for Jane Doe

  By Silvia Pettem

  The 2023 paperback edition includes an epilogue with updated information on how the mystery finally was solved.

• 

  In Search of the Blonde Tigress: The Untold Story of Eleanor Jarman

  By Silvia Pettem

  Whether Eleanor deserved her sentence, or whether it was too harsh, is left for the reader to decide. In Search of the Blonde Tigress sets the mystery and intrigue of this wanted woman into historic context.

• 

  Cold Case Homicides: Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition

  By R. H. Walton

  Bellevue, Washington: Two Rings Publishing. ... These instruments help extend the visual capability of the human eye to see and record fingerprints that might otherwise be considered to be of no value for identification.

• 

  The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families

  By Silvia Pettem

  With real cases, both solved and unsolved, the book also illustrates the resources available and the actions that family members, civilians, and law enforcement agencies can take to search for long-term missing persons, to identify ...

• 

  Handbook of Missing Persons

  By Caroline Sturdy Colls, Stephen J. Morewitz

  This ambitious multidisciplinary volume surveys the science, forensics, politics, and ethics involved in responding to missing persons cases.

• 

  Cold Case Chronicles: Mysteries, Murders & The Missing

  By Silvia Pettem

  ... investigation. Silvia's experience with the Jane Doe investigation and the Sheriff's Office spurred in her a latent, but now consuming, interest in cold cases and missing persons. It has become a new passion that she has pursued as ...

• 

  The Handbook of Homicide

  By Fiona Brookman, Mike Maguire, Edward R. Maguire

  The Handbook of Homicide presents a series of original essays by renowned authors from around the world, reflecting the latest scholarship on the nature, causes, and patterns of homicide, as well as policies and practices for its ...

• 

  Emerging and Advanced Technologies in Diverse Forensic Sciences

  By Ronn Johnson

  Forensic science under siege: The challenges of forensic laboratories and the medico-legal investigation system. Burlington, MA: Elsevier Academic Press. Saferstein, R. (2011). Forensic science: An introduction. New York: Pearson.

• 

  New Perspectives in Forensic Human Skeletal Identification

  By Eric J. Bartelink, Krista E. Latham, Michael Finnegan

  The final section of this book highlights advances in human identification techniques that are being applied to international populations and disaster victims.

• 

  Juvenile Delinquency: A Sociological Approach

  By William E. Thompson, Jack E. Bynum

  ... J., 327 Pearson, G., 228 Peel, Sir R., 254 Pelham, W., 54 Peluso, E., 240 Penn, S., 229 Pennell, S., 341 Peralta, ... E., 30 Pogrebin, M., 320 Polk, K., 80, 179, 193 Pollack, O., 142 Pollock, V., 57 Ponder, M. C., 264 Poole, E. D., ...