Cold Case Freeze - Thousands Of Unsolved Murders Are Decades Old - Retired Cop Says Police Talented, But Have No Time
Nearly a third of the more than 40,000 homicides committed in Jamaica since 1970 have gone cold, and files are languishing on the shelves of some police department with only the pathologist report on the cause of death, a retired police officer told The Gleaner.
"Listen, don't let what the police say fool you. You think anybody investigating Tess Thomas' death. You think anybody investigating your colleague Vincent Tulloch's murder?" asked the now a retired cop, considered one of the finest before he was promoted to desk work.
"Jamaica is a criminal's dream. The probability of being caught, tried and sentenced to death is zilch. That's why the police kill them," he said, giving life to allegations of rogue cops who are part of death squads in the police force - a claim denied by Police Commissioner Owen Ellington.
The retired cop said deceased families will also die without seeing someone punished for their loved ones' death.....
Teresa 'Tess' Thomas was a well-known consumer advocate in the 1990s. She was shot and killed at her Maryland, St Andrew, home in January 1999. Fourteen years later, her murder is unsolved....more
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