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cold case in British Englishnoun informal a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved Examples of 'cold case' in a sentencecold case It is easy to become a 'cold case', in every sense.The case remained unsolved for two decades until a cold case review.Their bodies were found by 'cold case' cops in 2007.There is, however, a cold case that has become burningly topical again.He had checked cold-case databases and found nothing.She said that the cold-case review team had spent six months building the case.Police said last week they had wound up the cold-case review into unsolved attacks.They were charged last year after a cold-case review.We look at how this could jeopardise cold case reviews of these crimes. |