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

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

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Author: Pettem Language: English Finishing: Hardcover, 333 pages ISBN: 978-1-43986169-1 Edition Number: July 2013 Author information: Silvia Pettem is a longtime historical researcher, newspaper columnist, and author of more than a dozen books. After decades of work for individuals, businesses, and governments, her life took a new turn in 1996, when she...
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Author: Pettem

Language: English

Finishing: Hardcover, 333 pages

ISBN978-1-43986169-1

Edition Number: July 2013

Author information:

Silvia Pettem is a longtime historical researcher, newspaper columnist, and author of more than a dozen books. After decades of work for individuals, businesses, and governments, her life took a new turn in 1996, when she stumbled upon the gravestone of a Jane Doe, a murder victim from 1954. A few years later, Pettem applied her research skills to both old-fashioned detective work and the power of the Internet by entering into a successful partnership with her local sheriff and forensic experts of the Vidocq Society to determine the young woman’s identity. Pettem chronicled their work in Someone’s Daughter: In Search of Justice for Jane Doe.

In 2008, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office gave Pettem a Sheriff’s Commendation Award for doing the "lion’s share of the research" on the Jane Doe case. Two years later, the Vidocq Society presented her with its Medal of Honor.

While continuing to volunteer for the Sheriff’s Office, Pettem is now an associate member of the Vidocq Society, a volunteer in the detectives section of the Boulder Police Department, a NamUs Academy graduate, and a NamUs instructor in classes sponsored by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, expanding her expertise and working with colleagues all over the country.

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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.

Features:

  • Shows cold case investigators ways to save time and money
  • Provides in-depth suggestions for people-searching and bringing in new leads and witnesses
  • Offers hope for solving cases of the missing and unidentified
  • Discusses how to interact with co-victims
  • Takes the fear out of dealing with the media

Table of Contents:

Section I: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

  • Challenges and Checklist 
  • Time as an Ally 
  • Checklist: To Help in Navigating the Chapters 
  • Agency Organization: Cold Case Units 
  • Miami-Dade Police Department’s Cold Case Squad 
  • Metropolitan Police Department’s Cold Case Squad 
  • Additional Cold Case Squads and Units 
  • Current Practices and Good Investigators 
  • TLO: The Latest Online Investigative System 
  • TLO’s Beginnings 
  • TLOxp User Tips 
  • Additional Options for People Searches 
  • Google 
  • Some Additional, and Helpful, People Search Options 
  • Social Security Death Index 
  • Ancestry.com 
  • Fee-Based Law Enforcement Websites 
  • Dealing with Databases 
  • Databases 
  • Section II: MISSING, MURDERED, AND UNIDENTIFIED 
  • NamUs: Connecting the Missing and Unidentified 
  • NamUs: An Investigative Tool 
  • Special Circumstances 
  • Entering and Searching in the NamUs System 
  • NamUs-MP: Creating a Missing Persons Case 
  • NamUs-UP: Creating an Unidentified Persons Case 
  • PKU Cards Retain Overlooked DNA 
  • PKU/Guthrie Card Information, by State 
  • The Plight of the Missing and Unknown 
  • One Scenario: The Missing Person Is Presumed Dead 
  • Prosecuting No-Body Homicides 
  • Other Scenarios: Cold Missing Persons Cases 
  • The Unidentified Remains of John and Jane Does

Section III: RESOURCES FOR EXPANDED RESEARCH

  • Historical and Geographical Context 
  • Gaining Historical and Geographical Perspectives 
  • Newspaper Research: Online and Off 
  • How Newspaper Research Can Help 
  • Newspaper Research Options 
  • Understanding Obituaries 
  • Published and Public Records 
  • Federal Public Records 
  • State Public Records 
  • Local Public Records 
  • Published Local Records 
  • Public Records Can Be Missing 
  • Public Records Can Be Inaccurate 
  • Recorded Document Offices 
  • Volunteers: How They Can Help 
  • Volunteers in Cold Case Research 
  • Specialized and Independent Volunteers 
  • Contact with Co-Victims 
  • Co-Victims and Law Enforcement 
  • Co-Victim Resources (A Sampling of Some Volunteer and Nonprofit Organizations) 
  • Victim Rights Act: Colorado As an Example 
  • Need for Kindness

Section IV: REVIEW TEAMS AND THE MEDIA

  • Cold Case Review Teams and Information-Sharing Resources 
  • Cold Case Review Teams: A Sampling 
  • Information-Sharing Resources: A Sampling 
  • Cold Case Review Teams 
  • Information-Sharing Resources 
  • Taking Advantage of the Media 
  • Print and Broadcast Media (Augmented with Websites) 
  • Web-Based Media: Agency Use of Cold Case Websites and Social Media 
  • Conclusion 
  • Section I Tools and Techniques 
  • Section II Missing, Murdered, and Unidentified 
  • Section III Resources for Expanded Research 
  • Section IV Review Teams and the Media 
  • Selected References 
  • Books 
  • Documents and Reports 
  • Interviews 
  • Magazine and Journal Articles 
  • Newspaper Articles and Radio and Television Broadcasts 
  • Websites 
  • Index

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