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More than 200,000 unsolved cases have gone cold since 1980, and murder clearance rates continue to drop. With equity for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other underserved victims not prioritized in the true crime community—together we can do better.
Families Deserve Answers; Victims Deserve a Voice, and No One Should Be a Statistic.
Tammy Zywicki
After Tammy’s car broke down off of I-80 while she was on her way back to Grinnell College, several motorists reported seeing a tractor-trailer stopped to help. Days later she was found dead, hundreds of miles away. Who stopped to help her?
Najah Ferrell
Najah disappeared on her way to work for an early morning shift. Days later her car was found along I-465, but it would be a terrible discovery by area fishermen in a pond over 100 miles away that still leaves her family wondering what happened to Najah?
Use your insights, actions, and awareness to help uncover answers in the more than 200K cold cases of the missing and murdered.
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Join a Community of Citizen Detectives
We believe that together we can make a difference, by combining publicly available information with the ever-growing wisdom of the crowd, to do something that matters and find the intersection of justice, peace, and closure for the families of the murdered and missing. Using our collective superpowers in research, data collection, and our diverse backgrounds, we can help uncover answers in the thousands of cold cases that need attention. You can use your unique perspective to help.
Latest Citizen Detective Resources
How to Write an Effective Advocacy Letter
Throughout my career, I have had to write marketing copy, social media ads, press releases, and the like. Whether I was promoting a new product, requesting donations, or announcing a promotion. I've used that skill now to develop a letter template that can be used to...
Read Between the Lines: Using Newspapers in Cold Case Research
While many local papers are disappearing across the country, only to be replaced by national syndicates, or in some cases nothing at all, it's undeniable that local reporting and access to it are integral in uncovering answers in cold cases—particularly those that...
What Cases Need To Be Uncovered
We believe that through collective impact, we can uncover information that might lead to the next big break
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