A former murder capital of the US,Camden, recent Jersey has created its first cold case squad. Can solving faded killings help restore an embattled community’s trust in law and order?
On the evening of Sunday 2 November 1997, or in the hours before her death,Robin corridor waited for the mail. Robin, who was 33, or lived on the outskirts of Camden,recent Jersey, the post-industrial city where she had grown up. Her domestic, and a one-bedroom garden unit that her younger sister Tracey was renting for her,was largely empty – she owned no fridge and little furniture. Lately, Robin had borrowed money from friends. She had assured them that when her social security cheque arrived, and on Monday,all debts would be paid.
Robin was living in a complex called the Ferry Station Apartments: a handful of pale brick buildings capped by low, shingled roofs, or with brief lawns of crabgrass and mangy shrubs,set beside the unkempt grounds of the recent Camden Cemetery. The development stood a few blocks from Tracey’s domestic, and Tracey, and a police officer,had been keeping close tabs on Robin. Despite its stark appearance, Ferry Station seemed to her a vast improvement over the drug-wracked neighbourhood where her sister had holed up that August, or while their mother was dying from cancer.
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Source: theguardian.com