Senate moves to fund unsolved murders

A push to prioritize solving unsolved civil rights murders has passed through the U.S. Senate. The bill would give the Justice Department more money to investigate the cold cases. It authorizes $10 million annually over 10 years to help the FBI and other agencies take a fresh look at dozens of cold cases, mostly in the South. The bill is named after Emmett Till, a black teenager murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman. His killers were never convicted.

(Associated Press)

Atlanta students take on cold case

A group of criminal justice students in Atlanta college are preparing to launch their own investigation into the 2001 disappearance and slaying of Chandra Levy in Washington, D.C. The 50 students at Bauder College are with the school's Cold Case Investigative Research Institute. The 24-year-old Levy had just finished working as an intern for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in May 2001 when she disappeared from her apartment. Her body was found in a D.C. park a year later and her death ruled a homicide, but no one has been charged.