Cold Case Homicides Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition

This book, now in its second edition, is the first and most exhaustive text covering the still growing popularity of cold case investigations which locate perpetrators and free the innocent. The new edition adds approximately 80 pages of content, including material on clandestine graves and investigating cold gang cases. The book merges theory with practice through the use of case histories, photographs, illustrations and checklists that convey essential, fundamental concepts while providing a strong, practical basis for the investigative process.

Dedication Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Chapter One: The Cold Case Problem R.H. Walton Chapter Two: Case File Review R.H. Walton Chapter Three: Read the Book: Learn the Case R.H. Walton Chapter Four: Investigation R.H. Walton Chapter Five: Long Term Missing Persons and No-Body Homicides R.H. Walton Chapter Six: Prosecution of Cold Cases Ann Marie Schubert Chapter Seven: Vicap, Hits, and TracKRS R.H. Walton Chapter Eight: Criminal Justice Information Services and NCIC R.H. Walton Chapter Nine: Interviewing Senior Citizens R.H. Walton Chapter Ten: Death Certificate, Obituary and Coroner’s Inquest R.H. Walton Chapter Eleven: Cold Case Investigation Units R.H. Walton Chapter Twelve: Media in Cold Case Investigation R.H. Walton Chapter Thirteen: Friction Skin Impressions Edward Palma Chapter Fourteen: Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems Peter Komarinski Chapter Fifteen: From Serology to DNA in Cold Case Investigations Mike Grubb Chapter Sixteen: Trace Evidence in Cold Case Investigations Jay Henry Chapter Seventeen: National Missing and Unidentified Persons Database Thomas Dibase and R.H. Walton Chapter Eighteen: Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) Connie Milton Chapter Ninteen: National Integrated Ballistic Information Network Katharine Dyer Chapter Twenty: Forensic Anthropology in Cold Cases Madeline Hinkes Chapter Twenty-One: Forensic Dentistry in Cold Cases Norman Sperber and Anthony R. Cardoza Chapter Twenty-Two: Forensic Exhumation R. H. Walton Chapter Twenty-Three: Criminal Investigative Analysis in Cold Case Investigations Sharon Pagaling Hagan Chapter Twenty-Four: Warming Up with Wiretaps Robert P. Hickey Chapter Twenty-Five: Bloodstain Pattern Analysis in Homicide Cold Case Investigations Tom Bevel Chapter Twenty-Six: Blood Enhancement Rod Englert Chapter Twenty-Seven: Forensic Document Examination Marie Durina Chapter Twenty-Eight: Forensic Art in Cold Cases Karen Taylor Chapter Twenty-Nine: Polygraph in Cold Cases Paul Redden Chapter Thirty: Geographic Profiling in Cold Cases Kim Rossmo Chapter Thirty-One: ‘Who You Know’: Resources in Cold Case Investigations R.H. Walton Concluding Thoughts Index

R.H. Walton is Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Program at Utah State University Eastern.