Can You Help Solve These East Texas Cold Cases?

Cold Case refers to a crime that has not yet been solved to the full and is not the subject of a recent criminal investigation, but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony, DNA evidence, re-examined archives, retained material evidence, as well as fresh activities of the suspect. New technical methods developed after the case can be used on the surviving evidence to re-analyze the causes, often with conclusive results.

Typically, cold cases are violent or other major felony crimes, such as murder or rape which unlike unsolved minor crimes are generally not subject to a statute of limitations. Sometimes disappearances can also be considered cold cases if the victim has not been seen or heard from for some time.

In many instances, the information provided by individual citizens allows law enforcement officials to make breakthroughs in solving difficult cases.

The Tyler Police Department’s mission is to seek justice for all of those victims that have become silent. They need your assistance in solving these Unsolved Homicide and Missing Person Cold Cases. If you have information that might be useful, please call the Tyler Police Department at 903-531-1000, or you can call Tyler Smith County Crime Stoppers at 903-597-2833.