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Article: Lack of a local cold-case unit doesn't make grief easier
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- February 6, 2008
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You might say Frank and Pam Kinslow live in Cold Case Central.
Their 20-year-old son, Thomas, was fatally shot outside their
Constitution Avenue townhouse on Nov. 22, 2005.
A few doors away, a mother and her son were stabbed to death in
their home in March 2003.
They wrote a letter to the City Council in January, urging that
"at least one detective be assigned to investigate cold cases only."
"The fact that someone is out there walking the streets and
enjoying life and he's not, that's hard," Pam Kinslow said.
Police arrested a suspect in the Kinslow slaying, but blood found
on Tommy Kinslow's clothing did not match the suspect's DNA, so he
was released.
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