Columbus Police Department working to solve more cold cases
Detective Stuart Carter is head investigator for cold cases.
Columbus Police Department working to solve more cold cases By Caroline Linch | February 25, 2021 at 7:00 PM EST - Updated February 25 at 7:17 PM
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - There are close to 150 unsolved murder cases the Columbus Police Department currently has since 1962.
“The current cases are always precedent, and then once those start piling up, you just literally have no time to work the cold cases,” said Detective Stuart Carter, cold case head investigator at the Columbus Police Department.
The police department wants to change this. That’s why a select few officers are now dedicated to solving cold case murders.
2003 Columbus cold case moves to Superior Court
2003 Columbus cold case moves to Superior Court By Olivia Gunn | February 5, 2021 at 9:23 PM EST - Updated February 5 at 11:56 PM
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - A Columbus cold case is going before a judge 17 years later.
The suspect in the murder of Albert Woolfolk made his first appearance in court Friday.
Woolfolk was found stabbed to death in his home July 18, 2003. According to police, the accused killer, Alvin Barfield, said he didn’t know Woolfolk and had never been to his home. Police said evidence found in the home had Barfield’s fingerprints on it, linking him to the crime.
Man wanted in 2003 Georgia slaying found in South Carolina Follow Us
Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Friday, January 22, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - A man wanted in connection with an almost 20-year-old Georgia homicide was captured Thursday by authorities in South Carolina, officials said.
Alvin Shane Barfield, 47, was arrested and charged with murder in the 2003 death of Albert Carter Woolfolk in Columbus, Georgia, news outlets quoted officials as saying.
Columbus police said Woolfork, 45, was seen leaving a bar with three men on July 16, 2003. Woolfork’s mother found him 34 hours later stabbed to death in his home.
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