cold cases

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/14/2022
  

  NYPD Warehouse Fire Jeopardizes Cold Cases, Exonerations

  Civil Rights lawyer Ron Kuby called the fire a blow to "the hopes and dreams of uncounted innocent people." 

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• SOURCE: HuffPost
  6/11/2021
  

  White House Pushes To Jump-Start Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases Board

  The White House has named nominees for the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, which will reexamine unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era.

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-17-13
  

  South's civil rights cold cases

  FERRIDAY, La. — In the spring of 1965, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington received a letter from Concordia Parish in northeastern Louisiana. Addressed to the bureau’s director, J. Edgar Hoover, the letter pleaded for justice in the killing of a well-respected black merchant.A few months earlier, the businessman, Frank Morris, had come upon two white men early one morning at the front of his shoe-repair shop, one pointing a shotgun at him, the other holding a canister of gas. A match was ignited, a conflagration begun, and Morris died four days later of his burns without naming the men, perhaps fearing retribution against his family.The letter expressed grave concern that the crime would go unpunished because the local police were probably complicit. “Your office is our only hope so don’t fail us,” it concluded. It was signed:“Yours truly, The Colored People of Concordia Parish.”