Book Arrangement Cold Cases is arranged in chronological order. It begins with a preface explaining the need for this book and the misunderstandings behind these cases. It then jumps into a forensic timeline which shows forensic advances. Then it breaks into chapters for each unsolved case. Each chapter is broken into segments: a backstory on the person, the murder, and the investigation. Each chapter varies with its segments but those cover the premise. Each chapter is roughly ten to twenty pages long and there is roughly 40 chapters.
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Preface
Cold Cases begins with a preface. The preface states that people now have a major misunderstanding that all cases can be solved due to crime shows such as Law and Order and CSI. These …show more content…
Elwell learned from a young age his talent of playing the card game whist and soon began playing it for money. Elwell arrived at the rooftop restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City. It was June 10th, 1920, and Elwell was having dinner with William and Selma Lewisohn, Viola Kraus, and Octavio Figueroa. At around 11 PM Elwell left the Ritz-Carlton and went to the New Amsterdam Theater to buy the five of them Midnight Frolic tickets. They all headed home around 1:45 AM. The next morning the milk man ran his rounds at 6:30 and the mail man ran his rounds at 7:25, Elwells doors were unlocked for both of their stops but when his housekeeper Marie Larsen arrived at 8:35 they were locked. She went inside and did her normal routine of picking up the milk and mail and taking it to the kitchen and then making her rounds about the house. During her rounds Larsen realized she was not alone; normally Elwell does not wake up until after she has finished cleaning but this morning he was sitting in his armchair wearing his red silk pajamas. It was not until Larsen got closer that she noticed he was bleeding from a bullet wound in his forehead. Larsen ran down to the drugstore and found patrolman Harry Singer, she said that Elwell needed an ambulance and that she believed burglars had shot him because they have had problems with burglars before. Singer agreed that this was an attempted murder and called Captain Thomas F. …show more content…
He was a good student winning prizes in english. Wallace began selling drugs at the age of twelve and eventually dropped out of school at the age of seventeen. Wallace’s father walked out on him and his mother when he was two years old. He was arrested in 1989 for carrying an unregistered firearm. Wallace came out on the rap scene on September 13, 1994. He went by the name Notorious B.I.G or Biggie Smalls. He was named rap artist of the year in 1995. His success on the rap scene sparked a rivalry between himself and West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur. As Wallace was leaving a party for the Soul Train Music Awards a black Impala pulled up beside them; the driver shot five shots into Wallace's side of the car and then sped away. He was pronounced dead at 1:15 AM. The theory behind his death was of a financial fee Wallace never paid for security. No leads were ever discovered and the case is still
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Preface
Cold Cases begins with a preface. The preface states that people now have a major misunderstanding that all cases can be solved due to crime shows such as Law and Order and CSI. These …show more content…
Elwell learned from a young age his talent of playing the card game whist and soon began playing it for money. Elwell arrived at the rooftop restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City. It was June 10th, 1920, and Elwell was having dinner with William and Selma Lewisohn, Viola Kraus, and Octavio Figueroa. At around 11 PM Elwell left the Ritz-Carlton and went to the New Amsterdam Theater to buy the five of them Midnight Frolic tickets. They all headed home around 1:45 AM. The next morning the milk man ran his rounds at 6:30 and the mail man ran his rounds at 7:25, Elwells doors were unlocked for both of their stops but when his housekeeper Marie Larsen arrived at 8:35 they were locked. She went inside and did her normal routine of picking up the milk and mail and taking it to the kitchen and then making her rounds about the house. During her rounds Larsen realized she was not alone; normally Elwell does not wake up until after she has finished cleaning but this morning he was sitting in his armchair wearing his red silk pajamas. It was not until Larsen got closer that she noticed he was bleeding from a bullet wound in his forehead. Larsen ran down to the drugstore and found patrolman Harry Singer, she said that Elwell needed an ambulance and that she believed burglars had shot him because they have had problems with burglars before. Singer agreed that this was an attempted murder and called Captain Thomas F. …show more content…
He was a good student winning prizes in english. Wallace began selling drugs at the age of twelve and eventually dropped out of school at the age of seventeen. Wallace’s father walked out on him and his mother when he was two years old. He was arrested in 1989 for carrying an unregistered firearm. Wallace came out on the rap scene on September 13, 1994. He went by the name Notorious B.I.G or Biggie Smalls. He was named rap artist of the year in 1995. His success on the rap scene sparked a rivalry between himself and West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur. As Wallace was leaving a party for the Soul Train Music Awards a black Impala pulled up beside them; the driver shot five shots into Wallace's side of the car and then sped away. He was pronounced dead at 1:15 AM. The theory behind his death was of a financial fee Wallace never paid for security. No leads were ever discovered and the case is still