Kansas City police have plan to save cold-case sex crimes unit

Finally some good news about the Kansas City Police Department’s cold-case sex crimes squad The Star reports that officials have a plan to save the unit.

The cold-case sex crimes squad lost a $500,000 federal grant that was paying three detectives’ salaries. The cold-case unit had reportedly cleared more than 140 cases since it started in

2008, identified 25 serial rapists and arrested 10 of them, including the man suspected of being the Waldo rapist. But funding is expected to run out in April without the grant

money. Now the unit may be saved.