According to Scripps News, per FBI statistics, there have been 82,463 murders in California in the time period from 1980 to 2008. By far the most murders of any state by a huge margin. A total of 33,457 murders have gone unsolved.The rate of murder case clearance in CA is 59%. New York State came in second, with 45,740 murders during the same time period. From these statistics it is apparent that there are a lot of killers roaming around out there.
For sure, but in defense of California (ha) it’s a HUGE state and all the creeps from everywhere else come here. 
“…they may be dealing with one or more ersatz Zodiacs–other psychotics eager to get into the act, or perhaps even other murderers eager to lay their crimes at the real Zodiac’s doorstep.“ L.A. Times, 1969
California has the 5th largest economy in the world. It is a huge state with millions of people. I guess there just happen to be many people living there that like to kill people, for one reason or another.
California has the 5th largest economy in the world. It is a huge state with millions of people. I guess there just happen to be many people living there that like to kill people, for one reason or another.
Yeah but it’s their last year of water in S Cal. ,wait till that happens . 
Those numbers give you a clue as to why not much time and expense is spent on the cold cases, especially the ones that are so old that there is little hope of the perpetrator being alive.
I know a lot of grant money was given to certain jurisdictions when Joseph Naso was arrested for the killing of four women in the 1970’s and 1990’s because there was a greater chance there would be a DNA hit than comparing the DNA to someone who otherwise had no criminal background. It was due to the nature of the items that were found at Naso’s home in Nevada that an all out attempt to solve some cold cases was made. The same holds true for Edward Wayne Edwards, he was a known criminal, too.
Unfortunately today’s economy does not allow for the cold cases to be given the time and financial resources that they deserve.
Those numbers give you a clue as to why not much time and expense is spent on the cold cases, especially the ones that are so old that there is little hope of the perpetrator being alive.
I know a lot of grant money was given to certain jurisdictions when Joseph Naso was arrested for the killing of four women in the 1970’s and 1990’s because there was a greater chance there would be a DNA hit than comparing the DNA to someone who otherwise had no criminal background. It was due to the nature of the items that were found at Naso’s home in Nevada that an all out attempt to solve some cold cases was made. The same holds true for Edward Wayne Edwards, he was a known criminal, too.
Unfortunately today’s economy does not allow for the cold cases to be given the time and financial resources that they deserve.
You’re right about that. It’s throwing good money after bad. Focusing resources on these cold cases creates a quagmire for the investigators. Here’s a good one for you SG. There is a case in NH from 1973. Two teenage girls from Merrimack NH found murdered in the woods at Candia NH. The lead investigator from Merrimack, Det. Joseph Horak, wrote two books about the case, and he has gone so far as to name the murderer in the book. The problem was, the suspects famly was one of these families that settled the town in the 1600’s. They were Mayflower descendents. These people were related to everybody in town and they were quite well to do. Other then Horak, who was from Lynn MA originally, the police department, made up of mostly all locals at the time didn’t want to go after this guy. The family had to many connections. The suspect still lives in the same place. He never moved an inch. In fact I have spoken to him personally, as he is a well known businessman in town. That’s the reality of these things. Sometimes the people who do bad get away with it. There are no witnesses to the crime as the other suspect in the murder killed himself a month after the bodies were found. Also, there was no physical evidence. Two months in the woods in the hot summer does not do a body good.
