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cold case

[ kohld keys ]

noun

  1. a criminal investigation that has remained unsolved for an extended period of time:

    This year's award recipient is a state trooper whose work helped close a cold case from 1983.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cold case1

First recorded in 1970–75
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Example Sentences

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But the truth was detectives had, finally, cracked a cold case that had lingered unsolved on the books of Cheshire Police for 25 years.

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Joanne Sharkey, from Liverpool, was identified as the baby's mother in July 2023 after cold case detectives found a DNA match for her older son, Matthew Sharkey, who had been arrested on suspicion of an unrelated offence.

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Joanne Sharkey, 55, from Liverpool, was not identified until 2023 when cold case detectives found a match for her older son in national DNA databases.

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Gipson will replace the immigration enforcement bill with an unrelated proposal he introduced last year that would require law enforcement agencies to consider requests to review cold case murders by determining if they can unearth new leads, Aguayo said.

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A cold case review was started in 2016 and scientific advances meant police were able to piece together a more detailed picture of who she was and concluded she had been killed.

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