You want to help, but you don’t know where to start. You’re at the right place!
The first step in working on a case is keeping it visible and well known. Adding any and every unsolved murder and missing person case to the STC database does exactly that.
Next up, who are the current family and law enforcement contacts for these cases? Is a missing person or unsolved murder case still assigned to a lead detective? We want or case pages to have that current contact and you can be HELPFUL by reaching out to departments and finding out who that contact should be.
Additionally, start checking out the task lists for cases in our database. What’s been done and what still needs to be done? Has the missing person case been entered into NAMUS? Has family reference DNA been submitted? You can help increase awareness of these tasks for example.
I am looking at a Cold Case. Cheryl Henry & Andy Atkinson were murdered August 22, 1990. It was a brutal murder scene. We have DNA. There is zero chat on her case, although there is a “leader”. I finally received the incident report thru the Freedom of Information Act which contains the case no., but that was all they would give me, a heavily redacted Incident Report. I also found the Detective. Can or should I post those things, especially someone’s phone on the site?
(I have reached out to the detective. He has not returned my call)
(On a final note, the HPD experienced a flood & fire in the evidence room some years back. It is unknown if this file was affected.)
Maggie Barnes
If you wanted to create a case for Andy Atkinson, I can then relate the two since they are the same criminal episode. Let me know if there are any facts that should be added!
Yes sir, we are very active. Feel free to start browsing through our cases or viewing the map. Also important…do you know of any unsolved cases that should be added to our site? You can enter a case on your own!