Rutherford County's Cold Case Unit will hold its first cold case conference next week, which is expected to bring in revenue for the Sheriff's Office.
More than 60 investigators from the United States and Canada will meet in Murfreesboro next week for a conference that boasts a list of speakers who are experts in many areas of crime investigation including crime scene reconstruction and forensic anthropology.
RCSO Sgt. Dan Goodwin, a detective for Rutherford County's Cold Case Unit, said the purpose of the event is to provide training and networking.
“The purpose is to provide training to existing cold case investigative units, newly formed units and agencies who wish to form special units to work on open-unsolved murders,” Goodwin said.
Goodwin hopes that the conference will provide networking that helps solve more open cases.
“Another vital purpose, and why we invited agencies nationwide, is to learn each others techniques in an effort to put more people in prison for long unsolved murders. We've already worked on cases with units in Texas, New Mexico, Florida, California, Pennsylvania and Kentucky,” Goodwin said.
The Sheriff's Office expects to make quite a profit from the conference.
“The taxpayers are not footing the bill. We're expecting to make a profit in excess of $20,000 which will go into the Rutherford County General Fund and then we'll ask to have it put back into the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office training budget,” Goodwin said.
The event will take place at the DoubleTree Hotel and is being paid for by those attending. The cost is $425 per person and is only open to law enforcement agencies.
The Rutherford County Cold Case Unit hopes to make the conference an annual event and believes it has had a strong response rate.
“We've had a great response for a first-time training event and are expecting more than five dozen detectives. More have been calling this week,” Goodwin said.
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