Richard Jackson, the lead detective in the Kazuyoshi Miura case of the Los Angeles Police Department, is an experienced officer in the cold case section.
"I wanted to give answers to families that wondered what happened to their loved ones . . . to create some kind of order in their lives," Jackson, 55, said in a recent interview, describing why he became a cold-case detective.
The LAPD's Cold Case Special Section was established in 2001 to re-examine nearly 9,000 cases from the 1960s to the late 1990s that remain unsolved.