Project: Cold Case

An advocate for cold-case murder victims from Jacksonville recently joined a special statewide task force to examine unsolved cases. Ryan Backmann…

Last year, Governor Rick Scott vetoed a bill that state lawmakers had approved asking for $50,000 to create a task force to study Florida’s cold case…

Cold CasesDuval County has more than 1,200 unsolved murders dating back to 1970, but no statewide data is available.Now advocates from the Jacksonville…

Duval County has more than 1,200 unsolved murders dating back to 1970, but no statewide data is available.Now advocates from the Jacksonville group…

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week began in Jacksonville on Monday.Advocacy groups, including Families of Slain Children and the Justice Coalition,…

Ryan Backmann doesn’t know who killed his father.His dad, Clifford Backmann, 56, was a construction worker. He was working a side job in the middle of the…

Florida Gov. Rick Scott vetoed more than $250 million in the state budget this week, including $50,000 that would have helped create a statewide cold case…

Jacksonville Senator Aaron Bean is sponsoring a bill aimed at helping solve cold case murders. The legislation creates a task force to reexamine policies…

Police records show there are around 1,300 unsolved murders in Jacksonville dating back to 1970. The city has roughly the same number of unsolved murders…

Police records show there are around 1,300 unsolved murders in Jacksonville dating back to 1970. The city has roughly the same number of unsolved murders…