Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

Cases in which all investigative leads appear to be exhausted are frustrating for both investigators and victims’ families. Cold cases can range from those only a few months old to others that go back for decades. Presenting profiles and actual case histories, Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing and Cold Homicide Cases illustrates how investigators can successfully apply resources that will enable them to reopen and solve cases gathering dust in the file room.\nToday’s investigators have found that, to solve cold cases, they need to be internet savvy and make the best use of the rapidly changing methodologies of the twenty-first century, but they also have to be time travelers and open the door to the past. This volume weaves together the nearly forgotten skill sets of traditional historical researchers with the latest online tools, including TLO, a premier investigative system; and NamUs, the revolutionary database for missing persons and unidentified remains. Along with practical applications, Cold Case Research gives investigators the tools they need to save time and money and to jump-start their cold cases, while keeping others from going cold in the future.\nTopics discussed include:\nImplementing cold case units\nPeople searches and working with databases\nOverlooked DNA in PKU cards\nThe plight of the missing and unknown\nApplying historical and geographical context\nOnline and off-line newspaper research\nPublic and published records\nThe use of volunteers\nContact with co-victims\nCold-case review teams and information-sharing resources\nTaking advantage of the media\nUsing a thinking-outside-the-box approach, this volume helps fill major gaps in traditional cold case investigation training and techniques, enabling investigators to confidently reopen and crack the mystery of cases long thought unsolvable. 
Silvia Pettem was quoted in a January 29, 2012 article on missing persons in the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Politics & Social Sciences

Pettem, Silvia

Social Sciences

CRC-Press

Over 300 photographs demonstrate how Boulder, Colorado has developed, changed, and been preserved over the past century. A chapter on the work of early area photographers is followed by a tour through an evolving cityscape of log cabins and western false-fronted buildings that becomes a flourishing business district built on the successes of local mining and agricultural interests. The original city is examined with a look at the influences that shaped growth, including the characters, events, religion, culture and businesses of the city; the concluding discussion is of post-WWII expansion of the city. Fine b&amp;w photographs. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Boulder: Evolution of a City

History

Americas

Univ Pr of Colorado

Boulder: Evolution of a City has captivated newcomers, tourists, and longtime residents for years with its dramatic visual and narrative presentation of the birth and development of Boulder. In this updated edition, 322 photographs - more than 90 of them current - capture landmarks, buildings, major events, and quiet moments from the 1860s to 2006. Photographs showing the same locations at several intervals in history reveal Boulder's continuum from past to present. 
Pettem devotes the first chapter to an introduction of the early photographers whose work appears throughout the book. Moving outward from the central business district as development did, each subsequent chapter focuses on a particular area in Boulder, with an introductory essay followed by historic and contemporary photographs with detailed captions.

Boulder: Evolution of a City, Revised Edition

University Press of Colorado

The Hotel Boulderado has been landmarked by the City of Boulder and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was named for the words Boulder and Colorado, so that no guest would forget where he had stayed. Hotel literature from the 1920s stated that every guest may expect the best and get it. The same holds true today.

Legend of a Landmark: A History of the Hotel Boulderado

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Book Lode

This collection of historically-oriented, self-guided tours is intended as an introduction to the mountain area west of Boulder Colorado

Excursions from Peak to Peak Beginning in Boulder

Amazing book about the history at this remarkable place!

The Peaceful Valley story: Fulfillment of a dream

History of tourism along the Peak to Peak Highway from Central City to Estes Park. Includes early miners and settlers, railroads, and stagecoach to auto travel with excursions to places such as Gold Hill, Brainard Lake, and Rocky Mountain National Park. Lots of photos.

Excursions From Peak to Peak, Then and Now

Cases in which all investigative leads appear to be exhausted are frustrating for both investigators and victims’ families. Cold cases can range from those only a few months old to others that go back for decades. Presenting profiles and actual case histories, Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing and Cold Homicide Cases illustrates how investigators can successfully apply resources that will enable them to reopen and solve cases gathering dust in the file room. Today’s investigators have found that, to solve cold cases, they need to be internet savvy and make the best use of the rapidly changing methodologies of the twenty-first century, but they also have to be time travelers and open the door to the past. This volume weaves together the nearly forgotten skill sets of traditional historical researchers with the latest online tools, including TLO, a premier investigative system; and NamUs, the revolutionary database for missing persons and unidentified remains. Along with practical applications, Cold Case Research gives investigators the tools they need to save time and money and to jump-start their cold cases, while keeping others from going cold in the future. Topics discussed include: <ul>
<li>Implementing cold case units</li> <li>People searches and working with databases</li> <li>Overlooked DNA in PKU cards</li> <li>The plight of the missing and unknown</li> <li>Applying historical and geographical context</li> <li>Online and off-line newspaper research</li> <li>Public and published records</li> <li>The use of volunteers</li> <li>Contact with co-victims</li> <li>Cold-case review teams and information-sharing resources</li> <li>Taking advantage of the media</li>
</ul>
Using a thinking-outside-the-box approach, this volume helps fill major gaps in traditional cold case investigation training and techniques, enabling investigators to confidently reopen and crack the mystery of cases long thought unsolvable. Silvia Pettem was quoted in a January 29, 2012 article on missing persons in the Colorado Springs Gazette.

When loved-ones go missing, the lives of their family members are turned upside-down. As the days and months turn into years, some families are caged in by their grief, while others become proactive –– renewing police contacts, keeping up with the latest technologies, and educating themselves as they strive to become their long-term missing persons’ advocates. By inspiring hope, as well as providing answers and practical advice, The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families assists families in navigating the uncharted territory they never chose to enter. Author Silvia Pettem also provides families with information to better understand how law-enforcement and related agencies work to solve missing persons cases. Along the way, she takes her readers behind the scenes, while emphasizing that every unidentified person is a missing person to someone else. With real cases, both solved and unsolved, the book also illustrates the resources available and the actions that family members, civilians, and law enforcement agencies can take to search for long-term missing persons, to identify previously unknown remains, and to bring the missing persons home. The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families inspires hope and gives answers as it empowers family members of long term missing persons to be proactive and to become their missing persons’ advocates.

The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families

Parenting & Relationships

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

COLD CASE CHRONICLES tells the stories of victims -- some missing, some murdered and some with changed identities. All are true, and each are mysterious in their own ways. The cases in this nonfiction narrative date from 1910 through the 1950s and include evolutions in forensics, as well as historical context in order to view the men, women and ......

Cold Case Chronicles: Mysteries, Murders & The Missing

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

LYONS PRESS+

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Pettem, Silvia. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Pettem, Silvia

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Pettem, Silvia. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

Boulder: Evolution of a City

Boulder: Evolution of a City, Revised Edition

Legend of a Landmark: A History of the Hotel Boulderado

Excursions from Peak to Peak Beginning in Boulder

The Peaceful Valley story: Fulfillment of a dream

Excursions From Peak to Peak, Then and Now

Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families

Cold Case Chronicles: Mysteries, Murders & The Missing