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A
Hello
and
welcome
to
asheville
city
works,
I'm
Melissa
Williams.
Our
first
story
this
month
comes
out
of
the
city's
municipal
building
the
Asheville
Police
Department's
Criminal
Investigations
Division
is
always
committed
to
bringing
criminals
to
justice,
no
matter
how
long
it
takes
lately
because
of
many
factors,
including
the
country's
economic
downturn.
The
CITS
investigation
workload
has
increased.
These
detectives
work
cases
from
simple
larceny
crimes
to
homicide
and
are
constantly
seeking
evidence
and
inflammation
that
eventually
leads
them
to
arresting
suspects.
In
addition
to
investigating
ongoing
crime.
A
The
CID
now
has
two
full-time
investigators
working
cold
cases,
and
recently
these
detectives
were
able
to
make
an
arrest
in
a
homicide
dating
back
19
years.
Here
are
captain
Tim,
spleen
and
detective
Yvonne
Coburn
to
tell
us
more
about
their
work
and
to
ask
for
your
help
in
solving
other
cold
cases.
Currently.
B
We
have
about
18
detectives
that
are
actually
working
criminal
cases
during
the
the
2008
year.
Our
department
answered
106,000
calls
for
service
or
red
around
106,000,
and
we
actually
did
follow-up
investigations
on
around
11,000
different
incidents.
So,
for
the
most
part,
those
18
detectives,
plus
a
couple
gang
detectives,
are
responsible
for
doing
the
follow-up
investigation
for
all
eleven
thousand
of
those
cases.
We
also
have
a
staff
of
volunteers
that
goes
through
and
on
cases
where
there's
no
solvability
factors
there's
just
no
evidence
to
go
on.
B
They
make
call
back
contact
with
the
victims
of
those
crimes
and
talk
to
them
and
see
if
there's
any
further,
information
can
be
gleaned
from
the
victim
for
us
to
further
work
on
in
regard
to
that
case.
But
for
the
most
part,
our
patrol
officers
respond
to
all
the
preliminary
investigative
type
stuff
out
the
street.
They
get
a
call
for
service,
they
go
and
see
what
the
incident
is.
B
They
develop
some
preliminary
information
and
then,
if
it
requires
follow-up,
that
information
comes
up
to
the
Criminal
Investigation
Division
and
then
we
follow
up
on
that
from
there.
We
prioritize
all
our
investigations.
The
most
serious
are,
of
course,
murder
or
crimes
against
persons
where
they're
serious
personal
injury,
but
the
range
of
crimes
that
we
investigate
go
all
the
way
from
from
the
homicides
and
sexual
assaults,
other
crimes
of
violence,
all
the
way
to
misdemeanor
larceny,
obtaining
property
by
false
pretense
damage
to
property.
B
Anything
that
where
you
know
somebody
loses
property,
there's
debt,
there's
property
damaged,
somebody
suffers
a
loss
and
that
we
have
an
actual
the
ability
to
or
some
evidence
where
we
can
link
that
to
a
person
and
possibly
make
an
arrest.
In
those
cases,
we're
closing
a
lot
of
cases
and
the
encouraging
thing
is,
as
we
progressed
over
the
past
few
years
and
we've
developed
our
records
management
system
and
we've
enhanced
the
way
we
actually
do.
Our
investigations
we've
had
the
ability
to
reduce
the
case
loads
for
the
detectives.
B
We
we
did
a
little
bit
of
restructuring
in
our
in
our
division
we
wanted
to
and
have
wanted
to,
for
quite
a
while
have
some
detectives
assigned
to
working
cold
cases
and
primarily
our
cold
case
homicides.
We
currently,
we
have
23
or
24
cold
case
homicides
dating
back
to
nineteen
sixty-nine
that
we
have
wanted
to
place
more
emphasis
on,
do
more
research
on
and
actually
look
at
more
closely,
so
that
we
could
try
to
make
cases
or
you
know,
glean
more
information
make
arrests
on
those
cases.
B
That
being
said,
we
we
did
some
restructuring.
We
actually
assign
two
full-time
detectives
to
work.
Kool
cases
they
also
help
out
there
the
primary
detectives
on
most
of
our
homicides
when
we
have
one
but
their
their
duties
right
now
or
to
go
through
those
cold
cases,
one
by
one
and
see
what
kind
of
information
they
can
glean
and
see
what
they
can.
They
can
add
to
those
cases.
Our
most
recent
one
involving
the
victim
of
Sandra
profit,
was
one
where,
because
of
the
officers,
the
detectives
initiative,
they
were
able
to
go
through
that
information.
C
The
domestic
violent
laws
in
1990
were
not
in
place
as
they
are
now,
so
we
didn't
have
as
much
domestic
violence
awareness
and
this
place
was
clearly
a
domestic
violence
case.
The
original
detectives
that
had
investigated
that
case
in
1990
had
documented
the
case
very
well
myself
and
detective
Kevin
Taylor,
who
is
also
assigned
to
cold
case,
were
able
to
go
forward
and
utilizing
our
current
domestic
violence,
laws
and
awareness.
We
were
able
to
go
forward
and
speak
with
mr.
Spivey
and.
B
That's
a
great
success
and
I
think
it's
a
great
starting
point
for
our
efforts
and
cold
case
homicides,
especially,
and
that
you
know
we
it
proves
to
us
that
proves
to
the
community.
It
proves
to
the
victim's
family
that,
as
we
get
into
this-
and
we
start
doing
more
of
this
and
can
actually
make
a
concerted
effort
toward
these
cases
that
I
think
we'll
see
more
and
more
successes
like
this.
B
You
know
some
of
our
more
recent
cases
that
are
out
there
Jermaine
Thompson
from
the
Calypso
Club,
the
shooting
death
there,
Chris
Sewell,
who
was
shot
to
death
in
hillcrest
apartments,
Craig
Valentine,
who
was
shot
to
west
asheville.
We
have
you
know:
Kelly
Smith,
the
murder
and
dismemberment
of
Kelly
Smith.
You
know
we
consider
zebb
Quinn
a
homicide
case,
although
officially
it's
a
missing-persons
case,
but
we're
always
you
know,
working
in
for
new
information
on
that
case,
amber
longer'n
who
disappeared
from
a
downtown
nightclub.
Lots
of
those
cases
are
ones
where
we
are
constantly.
B
You
know
we
get
new
information.
We
follow
that
lead
as
far
as
we
can
go.
Add
it
to
the
case
file
and
then
sometimes
just
have
to
wait
and
see
if
there's
new
information
that
comes
up
to
help
corroborate
or
add
to
that,
so
I
would
encourage.
You
know
any
community
member
out
here
that
has
any
information
about
those
cases,
certainly
to
contact
us
and
let
us
let
us
review
that
information
see
and
you
know
I
know
they'd,
be
surprised
and
we're
always
surprised
it
at
the
the
value
of
that
information.
C
Community
plays
a
role
in
being
forthcoming
with
their
information
I.
You
know,
I
know
it's
typical
for
people
to
sit
home
and
think.
Well,
you
know
I
know
this,
but
I'm
not
so
sure
that
it
would
be
helpful,
or
maybe
it
was
just
gossip
or
hearsay,
and
sometimes
it's
those
little
vital
pieces
of
information.
They
can
lead
us
in
the
proper
direction
to
go
really.
B
The
important
thing
in
this,
and
what
we
really
want
to
relay
to
the
community
is
that
these
cases
are
never
closed.
There
are
some
cases
that
we
have
that
we
were
an
arrest
was
made.
There
was
no
conviction
or,
for
some
reason,
the
purse.
The
charges
were
dismissed
against
the
suspect.
We
still
consider
those
cases
open.
We
always
want
new
information,
we
always
want
tips
and
leads
and
anything
anybody
hears
or
knows
about
these
old
cases
a
lot
of
them.
B
You
know
date
back
to
times
before
I
even
became
a
police
officer
here,
some
of
our
detectives
did
so
with
you
know,
we're
always
working
from
a
fresh
knowledge
base.
We're
always
looking
for
new
things
to
add.
So
I
would
encourage
anybody
out
there
in
the
community
that
has
any
kind
of
information
regarding
the
cases
to
certainly
call
us
share
that
information
with
us.