Case Unsolved, a podcast produced by The Day newsroom, is available beginning today. More than 1,400 murders in Connecticut are classified as unsolved. The Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice has produced four decks of playing cards — 208 cards in all — with a picture, name, and age of a victim, in hopes that they would produce leads on the cases. Twenty of the cases featured on the cards have been solved. Case Unsolved looks at three cases that have not.

This week's episode of Case Unsolved is a preview of what's to come, which will include a three-part series on the 1984 murder of Desiree Michaud beginning next week. She was last seen on Bank Street in New London, where she worked as a prostitute and was found murdered in a Groton motel. The series also will examine the unsolved murder cases of William Spicer Jr. in 1995 and Erika Cirioni in 2006.

 

Episode links:

Connecticut State Department of Corrections Cold Case Cards 

2016 FBI Clearance Rates by crime

Murder Accountability Project 

Center for the Resolution of Unresolved Crime