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Former Detectives Will Work To Solve Escambia County Cold Case Homicides
December 16, 2021
Former detectives will work to solve cold cases in Escambia County.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office has launched a “Cold Case Symposium” that will concentrate on cold case homicide investigations while enlisting the expertise of retired certified law enforcement detectives in the area.
“We have a number of retired deputies and law enforcement professionals who have offered their expertise in the past,” said Sheriff Chip Simmons. “We look to take advantage the years of experience these veteran law enforcement professionals bring. Just because someone is retired, doesn’t mean they have lost their experience and intuition. We hope that our current cold case investigators combined with volunteer experienced retirees, we can help close these cases and bring closure to the families.”
The symposium will begin in February of 2022 and will focus on six ECSO cold case homicides at a time. A cold case is one where all available leads have been exhausted and probable cause has not been established to make an arrest.
The ECSO is looking for any retired certified law enforcement investigators interested in joining the symposium that have certified law enforcement experience as a former homicide investigator. Qualified investigators interested in joining the two-day symposium should email Colonel David Ingram at doingram@escambiaso.com.
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11 Responses to “Former Detectives Will Work To Solve Escambia County Cold Case Homicides”
Hope this is done the right way. A group of retired police officers who have a cold case unit. Where it can be seriously invested..not just lip an eye service. Would be nice for the families to have answer’s
Add to the list of cold cases: Barbara Anne Bockwith, Pensacola, Fl. in Dec 1979.
https://charleyproject.org/case/barbara-ann-bockwith
Unbelievable some of these comments!!!!! These cases have been dormant for years with no attention to them, now that we have a sheriff who is at least trying people complain about it. The article doesn’t say ECSO only, we may have retired law enforcement in our area from somewhere else that may want to get involved, unbelievable!!!!
I really hope that those guy’s solve the murder of my great late brother Joseph Johnson need of these people in these cold cases deserve what happened to them so I pray that God give officers a sixth sense so to say to bring all these murders to justice Amen
RE: Anita Bonner & Not Sure….
Carl ++
Much advancement has been made in Forensics including DNA and now a huge national data base of DNA exists, collected from every facet of our population. Much of that may not have existed when the crime was considered “Cold Case”.
Example is the identification of military person remains from World War II and the returning of them to families 70+/- years later.
Carl….Totally agree, ‘Closure’ can heal a broken heart for those still waiting and wondering.
Wishing God’s Blessing on the families and the ECSD Cold Case Detectives.
Thank You, Chief Chip Simmons….
I hope they are able to solve the murder of Anna who was picking berries along a roadway and shot. The lowlife that did it must be brought to justice.
TY to all retired & active duty officers to start with fresh eyes on all cold case files.
True, some of these retired detectives may have worked on some of these cold cases, but with a group working on them there could possibly be new leads , recognized. I m sure if it was our loved ones case was cold we d be glad to have new eyes on the . Just because they re retired does not mean they don t have a lot to contribute.
@ Anita Bonner and Not Sure
With all due respect perhaps be grateful they are trying to do this.
Put yourself in a family’s place that has a lost lived one for a minute..I am sure they are thankful to try and find closure in their life.
They have hope…and hope is a good thing.
Being negative helps no one.
I’m not really sure about this. If they are cold cases it means that the retired investigators could not solve them the first time they had the case.
Obviously they need new eyes looking at these cases, not the same old folks that couldn’t solve it.
Maybe get a team of folks that have experience in these kinda cases, just seems like they are doing the same thing over and expecting different results.