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Operation Cold Case Review

Award Information

Awardee
Pinellas County Sheriff''s Office
Award #
2012-DN-BX-K022
Location

Largo, FL

Congressional District
13
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
Total funding (to date)
$214,354
Original Solicitation
NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2012, $214,354)

Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, in partnership with the Office of the State Attorney Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida and the District Six Medical Examiner's Office Pinellas County Forensic Laboratory proposes an eighteen month project - Operation Cold Case Review - to review and investigate all thirty-seven of its unsolved cold case homicides to determine the potential for solving them through the use of DNA technology and DNA databases. Evidentiary items deemed suitable for DNA analysis will be submitted to the Pinellas County Forensic Laboratory for STR and/or MT analysis, and results will be submitted for inclusion in the CODIS database.

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Date Created: August 22, 2012