One of the cold-case killings was the stabbing of 23-year-old Learonda Shealy of Yonkers in 1993.

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Her body was found in Crawford's Mount Vernon apartment by officers from Yonkers and New York City who were looking for Crawford, who was on parole, in connection with two cold-case killings.

WSJ: NY man charged in 1 murder now accused of 2 more

Prosecutor Habib Balian said he will prove a cold-case murder allegation against Gerhartsreiter, who spent years moving through U.S. society under a series of aliases, most notoriously posing as a member of the fabled Rockefeller family.

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Investigators comb crime scenes ever more finely for new kinds of evidence, which is creating problems with the tracking and storage of evidence, so that even as the criminals leave fewer traces of themselves behind, a backlog of cold-case evidence is building up.

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They pulled the plug on several longer-running series, including dramas Cold Case, The Ghost Whisperer and Numbers along with comedies Gary Unmarried and The New Adventures of Old Christine.

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The BBC understands that the Lawrence team are meeting next week to assess where the case now stands - and what the Yard as a whole can learn from this remarkable cold case turnaround.

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Case in point: cold fusion, as well as other screwball free-energy schemes funded by corporations or governments.

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"We find time has been an ally, " says Sergeant Bill Tanton, a 23-year veteran of the Sacramento Police Department and a consultant for the California Cold Case Investigation Course, a training program that specializes in solving open cases.

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Still, fearing that Rempel's editors might get cold feet, Jackson had arranged for an ideologically sympathetic "backup" -- in this case the conservative American Spectator's resident "hit man" David Brock -- to be given the same stories on an embargoed basis.

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