Thursday, December 16, 2010
Police Unveil Plan For Solving Cold Case Murders
KENTUCKY....
Police unveiled an unlikely investigative tool Thursday. They're distributing playing cards containing information about unsolved murders and missing persons to prisoners in hopes of generating fresh leads as an effective means" of solving cold cases. About 7,900 decks of cards, paid for with a $16,400 federal grant and featuring information and photographs of victims in 52 unsolved cases from across the state, will be put in all of the state's prisons and select jails. Kentucky State Police and the Lexington and Louisville police departments partnered with the Justice Cabinet on the project. Kentucky's cards are similar to ones made by Florida-based Effective Playing Cards, which boasts that police in 12 other states have solved 20 homicides and missing-persons cases profiled on the more than 1 million decks it's produced.
Police unveiled an unlikely investigative tool Thursday. They're distributing playing cards containing information about unsolved murders and missing persons to prisoners in hopes of generating fresh leads as an effective means" of solving cold cases. About 7,900 decks of cards, paid for with a $16,400 federal grant and featuring information and photographs of victims in 52 unsolved cases from across the state, will be put in all of the state's prisons and select jails. Kentucky State Police and the Lexington and Louisville police departments partnered with the Justice Cabinet on the project. Kentucky's cards are similar to ones made by Florida-based Effective Playing Cards, which boasts that police in 12 other states have solved 20 homicides and missing-persons cases profiled on the more than 1 million decks it's produced.# posted by Homer Owens @ 11:28 PM 
