New Hope for Cold Cases

Criminal investigations often require a complex combination of skills, knowledge, criminal profiling, and old fashioned luck.  Sometimes, however, even the most innovative efforts of law enforcement fail to bring violent criminals to justice.  It is often true that the more heinous the crime, the more clever and vigilant some criminals become in covering their tracks.  As a result, it is more likely such a case will grow cold without successful resolution.  Advances in forensic technology and the application of advanced behavioral assessment methods offer the best chance for solving a cold case.

Opening a cold case

Opening a cold case file means moving the case into an active investigation status.  Some police departments are reluctant to re-visit cold cases because of heavy workloads and insufficient staff.  Without fresh leads, new evidence, or the use of behavioral assessment criminal profiling methods, also known as criminal investigative analysis, there is little hope of finding the offender.  The Academy Group (AGI) offers programs designed to bring new behavioral science knowledge and scientific techniques to old cases. 

New eyes can solve old cases

With the specialized knowledge of behavioral sciences and criminal investigative techniques offered by AGI, the details of cold cases often take on new meaning and present previously unrecognized investigative leads.  AGI’s Cold Case Analysis Program aids investigators by:

v  Addressing significant crime scene events

v  Helping to uncover the offender’s motive

v  Identifying offender characteristics and traits

v  Explaining the offender's pre- and post-offense behavior

v  Developing media strategies that could facilitate the investigation

v  Presenting appropriate interview and interrogation strategies

v  Providing prosecutive strategies and expert testimony

AGI’s cold case consultations are conducted by practitioners who possess the knowledge and expertise in criminal investigative analysis that can only come from many years of personally conducting investigations in some of the most infamous cases in the country.