{"id":15292,"date":"2020-09-14T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciotocountydailynews.com\/?p=15292"},"modified":"2020-09-14T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:34:09","slug":"ohio-forms-cold-case-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/?p=15292","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Forms Cold Case Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The State of Ohio has formed a cold case unit. A “cold” case is an open criminal investigation police are no longer actively investigating. Usually, this is because of a lack of evidence.\u00a0 Some cities in Ohio have cold case units but up until now, the Attorney General’s Office did not.<\/p>\n

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said this unit won’t investigate all cold cases, just the most serious crimes. The new unit will focus on cold case homicides<\/a> and unsolved sexual assaults.<\/a><\/p>\n

Yost said, “We can make a difference, even when years have passed since a murder or sexual assault<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0The attorney general pointed out that modern forensics makes it possible to solve cases that are decades old. \u201cConsider how DNA testing<\/a> advances have unmasked, time, and time again, violent criminals who got away with living among us for too long.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Cold Case Unit (CCU) is part of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI). Yost said this new until will combine the best in modern science with the latest in investigative techniques.<\/p>\n