Cold Case Homicides

Rachel H. Walton: Dr. Rachel Walton brings over 35 years of California law enforcement experience and 15 years of college-level instruction, with expertise in homicide, cold cases, arson, and fraud. She led a landmark 13-year reinvestigation of a 1920s homicide that resulted in a posthumous pardon for a wrongfully convicted man. A sought-after speaker, she has presented to the FBI Academy, RCMP, NCIS, AAFS, and others. Dr. Walton earned her Ed.D. from the University of San Francisco with the first academic research on solvability factors in cold case homicides, and is the author of Cold Case Homicide: Practical Investigative Techniques.Frank P. Tona: Frank P. Tona is a Lieutenant with the Charles County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland, one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in the U.S., where he has served since 2002. He holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from SUNY Brockport and an M.P.A. from Norwich University. Lt. Tona is a Board Member of the Mid-Atlantic Cold Case Homicide Investigator’s Association, a Fellow at the Future Policing Institute, and a member of the Vidocq Society and International Homicide Investigators Association. He also serves as an adjunct instructor at Norwich University, John Jay College, Franciscan University, and the University of Maryland Global Campus.

• Preface. Foreword. Introduction PART I: THE INVESTIGATION 1. The Cold Case Problem 2. Case File Review 3. Learning the Case 4. The Investigation 5. The Role of the Medical Examiner 6. Death Certificate, Obituary, & Coroner’s Inquest 7. No Body Cases & Long-Term Missing Persons 8. The Prosecution of Cold Case Homicides 9. Criminal Investigative Analysis 10. Long Term Memory/Interview & Interrogation PART II: TECHNOLOGY 11. The Role of the Crime Lab 12. Trace Evidence 13. Forensic Anthropology 14. Forensic Dentistry 15. Investigative Genetic Genealogy 16. Linguistic Analysis for Cold Case Homicides 17. The Role of the Crime Analyst 18. Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) 19. The Print Media 20. Using Social Media Platforms & the Broadcast Media 21. Digital Forensics in Cold Case Homicides PART III: RESOURCES 22. Victim Advocacy 23. Establishing & Maintaining Cold Case Homicide Units 24. The Role of Academia 25. The Use of Canines 26. “Who you Know” Additional Resources. Afterword