For law enforcement, cold cases are the toughest to crack. They are those frustrating cases that just never seem to have any answers, and the longer the cases stay cold, the more difficult they become. The killer could even be right under their noses, yet there’s just not enough evidence to make the connection. The case of Angela Kleinsorge, for example, remained unsolved for decades before it was finally proven that she was killed by the guy that lived right across the street!
Sometimes, cold case murders are not even viewed as such. The cold case of Mike Williams fits this bill. Mike was murdered by his best friend during a hunting trip, yet for several years it was believed that he simply fell out of the fishing boat! Cold cases are often complete enigmas until a sudden break in the case presents itself. This book is full of a wide variety of these intriguing mysteries.
Some of the cold cases included inside: •Helene Pruszynski and Her Killer’s Late Remorse •Pamela Crisler - A Mysterious Midnight Murder •The Real Killer of Wendy Jo Halison •Kathy Sanderlin’s Killer Caught by his Own Words •Who Shot Patricia Ann Green?
If you are interested in reading about cold cases being solved, this is a good series. Whether a cold case is solved after five years or fifty years, it is still a victory. For the guilty to go unpunished is a blow against justice.
This volume contains the recently solved murder of Mike Williams whose wife convinced her lover to kill Mike so they could be together. Did she forget that, without proof of Mike's death, she could not remarry or collect on his life insurance? It was a poorly planned and poorly executed murder which landed her behind bars where she belongs.
This author takes readers through fifteen separate stories about murders that took investigators years to conclude. It took fifty-two years to solve one crime (the most protracted cold case so far)! Susan Galvin died in Seattle, Washington (she worked for the Police Dept.) in July 1967. Her killer was found, through DNA evidence, in 2019.
DNA evidence is the thing that ties almost, or all, of the cases together. Police Depts. had to wait until forensic detection methods got better to link a suspect to the crime. Anyone planning on committing murder might want to avoid doing genealogy. It was surprising how much info police got from genealogy sites.
Reading this book made me feel that police are solving more crimes because of enhanced forensic methods. In addition, this author writes in a readable, interesting style.