Re: Cold Case - Stop cheating

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:21:43 GMT, Gerry Zaninovich
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Robin Miller wrote:

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Lord Vader III wrote:
I enjoy Cold Case but last Sunday's episode bothered me a bit. They
were investigating a death from 1938 and the dead woman's husband,
"dance partner", and coworker were all still alive. If you estimate
that each of these people were 25 back in 1938 (one of the actors
playing one the the characters is actually 31) that would make all 3
of them 94 years old. If you look at the present day characters, not
a single one of them looked over 70 years old (one actor was only
73). Maybe Cold Case shouldn't go so far back with cases if they
can't get the ages right.

They've done cases older than that, but the main players were all dead.
I
agree, it was stretching it a bit to have all these peoples who should
have been in their 90s and looked 20 years younger.


I've watched Cold Case from the beginning, and I really do like it (other
than the addition of Tracie Thoms), but the really old cases always
bother
me. Both for the reason you mention, that it's simply impossible to
believe
that, fortuitously, all these 80- or 90-year-olds are still alive and
living
right here in Philadelphia, and also because I just don't think in real
life
they'd ever bother with a case that old that didn't involve a famous
crime.
And where's the satisfaction in seeing a 90-year-old man with
Altzheimer's
being hauled away for murder at the end?

I don't know.

There was a story here in Canada a few weeks back about a body that
had been found in a well, and while they initially treated it like a
recent murder, it soon revealed itself to be an old one. SOmething
like a hundred years ago. And the cop who was taking care of it said
"it doesn't matter that there's really no chance of dealing with
the murderer, this is a body of someone missing all these years
and their relatives deserve to know what happened".

Likewise, there seems to be a certain real life negotiation with
mass murderers, offering some level of privilege or something, in
order to get from them some details so they can treat the rest
of the murders as solved. It's not about adding more jail time
or executions to the murderer, it's about not having cases just
hanging there with the family wondering what happened to their
relatives or dead bodies found but no explanation.

An unsolved murder gnaws at the cops. Because they have a body
that they can't attribute to being murdered by someone, and they
may even have a body that they can't identify. Dealing with them,
no matter how much later, puts a finish to it. That's surely why
there are real "cold case squads", where the skills are actually likely
different from those needed to solve recent murders.

Michael


I wonder, in RL, how far back in time cold case squads actually will bother
to go? I have less of a problem with the show when a family member comes in
and, for some reason, needs or asks for closure, or has new information.
Addressing a known concern seems more realistic to me. Of course, I know
nothing about how these squads operate in real life.

--Robin

There is the real life "Cold Case" show (Cold Case Files), they were showing it
in A&E, where they were showing how cold case murders were solved. Many people
think a cold case needs to be 10, 20, 30 or more years old, but some of the ones
they showed were 2 years old. The program (I think they still show it) is quite
interesting

Gerry

That's a good point. If there are no leads, no clues, nothing to go
on, a case could be classified "cold" sooner rather than later. We'd
like to believe that crimes get solved at the rate they do on TV, but
we'd probably be shocked to know how many cases are cold, or pretty
close to it.

KC
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