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Glasgow criminology students work with experts to crack seven unsolved missing person cases
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Glasgow criminology students work with experts to crack seven unsolved missing person cases
A SCOTTISH university is to set up a cold case unit to help investigate unsolved missing person cases.
Criminology students at Glasgow Caledonian University will help investigate unsolved missing person cases in a Scottish first Glasgow Caledonian University is to set up a cold case unit to help investigate unsolved missing person cases. Criminology students will review case files and search for new evidence, working alongside the families of missing loved ones and specialists in investigation, forensic science and intelligence analysis. Figures show there are more than 4000 people in the UK who have been missing for more than a year and there are around 1000 unsolved cases involving un...
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/RCMP December 15, 2020 - 6:00 AM A renewed effort to crack a Kelowna cold case got underway this week with the release of a podcast titled The Missing. Charles Horvath, the 20-year-old backpacker who disappeared from Kelowna in 1989, is the first missing person profiled on the UK-based series hosted by Pandora Sykes. Working in collaboration with Missing People and Locate International — an organization made up of ex-detectives — Sykes aims to re-engage public interest in cold cases and encourage people with information to come forward. “For m...