Audience Attention About Unsolved Murder Cases

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The main focus of my topic is to grasp the audience's’ attention about unsolved murder cases and cold case. I want my audience to learn more about why some crimes go unsolved for years or why they go cold and end up in a folder in a desk drawer. My purpose is to inform my audience about this topic, so they become more aware.
In general, the ages of my audience are eighteen and nineteen. My audience is 83 percent female and 17 percent male all whom mostly live on campus in the dorms. In my audience a few people have part-time jobs, while the rest of the class studies hard to keep up the good grades. The class ranges in majors from accounting to healthcare to education and even phycology. In addition, most of the audience was raised in the

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