[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”4″ bottom_padding=”4″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ content_parallax=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”206391″][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ uncode_shortcode_id=”126750″]Cold Case Murder Squad[/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_color=”color-nhtu” uncode_shortcode_id=”122452″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”]Cole, beginning in January of 1997, was one of the first SAPD detectives to receive assignments to investigate murder cases that were considered “cold.” A “Cold Case Murder Squad” did not exist at that time. Cole found that investigators often failed to interview significant witnesses or examine critical evidence that could provide different theories and even different suspects. He learned that successful cold case investigation required challenging everything, including crime scene documentations, witness statements and especially prior investigative assumptions. The lessons led Cole to identify, locate and interview a dismissed witness from a fourteen-year-old murder case. The witness provided statements with sufficient information for a Grand Jury Indictment of two defendants.
Later, Cole supervised the detectives assigned to the Cold Case Murder squad and coordinated their activities with the cold case volunteers. The process successfully resolved several cold case murders, some of which are recorded on the SAPD Website.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][uncode_block id=”91″][/vc_column][/vc_row]