As state DNA databases expand, a growing number of "cold cases" are getting solved, but that's leading to a new problem: Local jurisdictions can't keep up with their burgeoning caseloads. As of October 2006, the FBI's national database contained profiles for over 3.7 million convicted offenders, which helped more than 40,000 investigations. But it's not like it is on television, where police have unlimited resources, everyone involved in a case remembers things years later, and justice is served in the end.
January 18, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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As state DNA databases expand, a growing number of “cold cases” are getting solved, but that’s leading to a new problem: Local jurisdictions can’t keep up with their burgeoning caseloads.
“I see it nationally as becoming a major problem,” said Ted Hunt, chief trial assistant in the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office in Kansas City, Mo. “We’re lucky to have a cold case homicide unit and a branch of sex crimes that works on cold cases, but many jurisdictions lack those resources.”
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