Article: Lack of a local cold-case unit doesn't make grief easier

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.

In time, new homicides commanded ...

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