Well, I broke down and got a subsription to Newspapers.com. Well worth it, not only for more in-depth information about cold cases, but also because it’s just fun to read an old newspaper. Money well-spent. I’m still trying to craft the perfect search for what I’m looking for.
On my way to searching for another type of cold case, I found this article from the Anniston Star, 17 Feb 2008. It lists some cold civil rights cases from the 1960’s. At that time, the Justice Department had decided to take a fresh look at these cases.
For example, the case of Rogers Hamilton remains unsolved. In 1957, Rogers Hamilton, was ordered into a truck by a group of men who later shot him in the head. The Emmett Till Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016 has expanded a law passed in 2007, which was when this graphic from the Anniston Star was published.
For further reading, see this article from three years ago from the Washington Post:
The Cold and Missing Persons Case Archivist 