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{{short description|Crime or accident not yet fully solved}} {{About||the television show|Cold Case|other uses}} {{Update|part=Add 2010s|reason=Lots of cold cases solved in the 2010s|date=December 2024}} [[Image:Wanted poster.jpg|thumb|A leaflet issued during the "autumn of terror" in 1888, when [[Jack the Ripper]] was active]] {{Criminology}} A '''cold case''' is a [[crime]], or a suspected crime, that has not yet been fully resolved and is not the subject of a current [[Criminal procedure|criminal investigation]], but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony, re-examined archives, new or retained material evidence, or fresh activities of a suspect. New technological methods developed after the crime was committed can be used on the surviving evidence for analysis often with conclusive results.
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