Cold case team takes new look at old homicides

GREELEY, Colo. - Along the south wall of his office in the Weld County Sheriff's Office are the notebooks. Cold cases, most of them homicides, line the bookshelves in Investigator Josh Noonan's office.

Some of the names are probably familiar to most in these parts: Denise Davenport, Mary Pierce, Kay Day. All unsolved homicides, all under study by Sheriff John Cooke's Cold Case Team.

The team is small - Noonan and two retired detectives, who spend their own time looking back through old case files - Bill Hood, who's retired from the Weld County Sheriff's Office, and Jim Sullivan, who's retired from the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.

Now they have new tools to use as they try to unravel a set of Weld's most puzzling unsolved homicides.

They will be using the latest DNA technology to help them. DNA from blood, hair, semen, saliva and skin cells will be broken down to pinpoint whom they once belonged to. Read on at: Greeley Tribune

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