Police hope Virginia’s cold case website will lead to new tips

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – Virginia State Police hope a brand new web site highlighting the state’s chilly circumstances will assist result in new suggestions from the general public.

The web site options “a searchable database that options info, images, and make contact with info for unsolved homicides, unidentified individuals and lacking individual circumstances which have remained unsolved for a minimum of 5 years.”

The web site began with new laws requiring it in 2020, with the positioning initially piloted in June 2022. Since then, the web site expanded to incorporate 44 unsolved homicides, 9 lacking individuals and 7 unidentified individuals, with 12 legislation enforcement companies utilizing it.

“There actually is not any such factor as a ‘chilly’ case,” stated Colonel Gary T. Settle, Virginia State Police Superintendent. “That moniker is deceptive as a result of irrespective of what number of years have handed {that a} murder, lacking individual investigation or unidentified individual case has gone unresolved, it by no means actually goes ‘chilly.’ Virginia legislation enforcement companies proceed to pursue unresolved investigations till justice is rendered for the sufferer and that sufferer’s household. Sadly, some circumstances merely take longer than others to attain that finish aim of an arrest and closure.”

The web site might be discovered HERE.

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