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New Playing Cards for Inmates Designed to Crack Cold Cases
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Florida's attorney general teamed up with state law enforcement to implement a new and innovative way to crack the state's unsolved cold cases.
Approximately 100,000 decks of playing cards featuring photographs and factual information about unsolved homicide or missing person cases will be distributed to prisoners throughout the state starting today.
The initiative was inspired by playing cards distributed to U.S. troops in Iraq featuring the country's most wanted fugitives.
In 2005, a group of law enforcement professionals in Florida's Polk County, impressed by the Iraqi fugitive cards, developed a deck of local unsolved cold cases and distributed them in the Polk County Jail.
The cards led to the arrest of two individuals allegedly involved in the 2004 murder of Thomas Wayne Grammar after an inmate saw Grammar featured on the three of spades and provided a tip to authorities.
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The toll-free number for each case's local Crime Stoppers chapter is featured on each card, and every inmate will be given access to a phone in order to contact Crime Stoppers.
"If these cards help us crack even one cold case, the families and loved ones of the victim or victims will have some measure of closure in their lives," said Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum.
Click here to see the 104 cards on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Web site.
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July 24, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)
Great idea!
Consider "downsizing" to the regional level and distribute "localized decks."
If there's a reward offered, put that on a card as well.
Posted by: David | Jul 24, 2007 2:08:45 PM
I think this is a very bad idea.By providing details of the crime to every criminal, you can never be sure who is giving information from a personal knowledge or from the cards. Also, God only knows what they will be doing with these cards/photographs of women victims..... IF the killer was among one of the men recieving these cards, he can now obsesss on the crime and relive the gory details while staring at the photo of the victim. I would not want my relative on these cards.
Posted by: Pamela | Jul 25, 2007 4:12:09 PM
How far back to they go on unsolved murders. I have a friend whose daughter was murdered in Miami about fifteen yeras ago she was 21.
Posted by: Phil Rotchford | Jul 25, 2007 10:21:10 PM
No statute of limitations on capital murder cases.
Posted by: ru nuts | Aug 2, 2007 3:38:12 PM
My sister is on them cards, and I think it is an awesome idea and I am all for it. I was there at the press confrenece and it has givien us hope that something will break. My sister was murdered 20 years ago this year and I say go for it!
Posted by: Michelle Abrams | Aug 26, 2007 9:58:20 AM
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