Joint FBI and LAPD homicide library brings new hope for old cases
"After a years-long effort, the joint LAPD/FBI Homicide Library opened Wednesday with 5,000 solved and unsolved homicide files, which include crime scene photos, pictures of witnesses, medical reports, notes scrawled on yellowing paper, tips and other evidence.
The physical books — thick, three-ring binders — are also being stored at the new facility, a 7,300-square-foot space at the Ahmanson Recruit Training Center in Westchester. Eventually, the LAPD will be able to store 15,000 cases going back to 1960.
In addition, researchers are studying more than 4,500 of the digitized murder books to identify why investigators were and weren’t successful in solving cases."
[Apologies if this isn't the right place for this post. I'm not sure...)
"After a years-long effort, the joint LAPD/FBI Homicide Library opened Wednesday with 5,000 solved and unsolved homicide files, which include crime scene photos, pictures of witnesses, medical reports, notes scrawled on yellowing paper, tips and other evidence.
The physical books — thick, three-ring binders — are also being stored at the new facility, a 7,300-square-foot space at the Ahmanson Recruit Training Center in Westchester. Eventually, the LAPD will be able to store 15,000 cases going back to 1960.
In addition, researchers are studying more than 4,500 of the digitized murder books to identify why investigators were and weren’t successful in solving cases."
[Apologies if this isn't the right place for this post. I'm not sure...)
