Resources
Cold Case Databases
I want to: add or review my loved one’s case to a cold case database online
Legal & Investigation
Resources
I want to: Find legal or investigation help for my loved ones unsolved cold case
Trauma & Support Resources
I want to: find ways to deal with my trauma and connect with other families
Funding For Awareness and DNA testing
I need help to: start an awareness campaign to bring attention to my loved ones’ unsolved cold case
I need help to: fund DNA testing
Digital Advocacy
I need help to: use social media and other platforms so I can talk about my loved ones’ unsolved cold case
Legal and Policy Reform
I want to: create a petition targeting lawmakers and law enforcement to change policies and/or local, and state laws
Cold Case Research Articles
- Promising Strategies for Strengthening Homicide Investigations: Findings and Recommendations from the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Homicide Investigations
Enhancement Training and Technical Assistance Project - UK Police responses to cold and long-term missing person cases: a comparative study
- The media as an investigative resource: reflections from English cold-case units
- National Best Practices for Implementing and Sustaining a Cold Case Investigation Unit
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
- MURDER MYSTERIES-2010: While the homicide rate has declined in most of the United States, police have failed to solve 185,000 homicides since 1980. An investigation into why more killers are getting away with murder.
- What we know about the increase in U.S. murders in 2020
- Solving Cold Cases Using Modern DNA Technologies
- Expert Panel Issues New Best Practices Guide for Cold Case Investigations – Police Chief Magazine
- Responding to Homicide: An Exploration of the Ways in Which Family Members React to and Cope With the Death of a Loved One
- The Impact of National Institute of Justice’s Solving Cold Cases with DNA Program | National Institute of Justice
- When Police Fail to Solve Homicides, Families Carry the Weight
- Exploring the familial impact of cold case homicides
- The Importance and Impact of Cold Case Units | National Institute of Justice
- Notes from the Field: A Multijurisdictional Team Moved Cold Cases to the Front Burner | National Institute of Justice
- Colorado’s Cold Case Task Force: A Blueprint for Improving Cold Case Investigation and Developing Trust between Co-victims and Law Enforcement – Police Chief Magazine
- Sick and Grieving: The Toll of Unsolved Murders
- Exploring Cold Case Homicide Survivors’ Perceptions of and Relationships With Law Enforcement
- Law enforcement and academics working together on cold case investigations: lessons learned and paths forward
- The experiences of homicide victims’ families with the criminal justice system: an exploratory study
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