If the Dutch police would decide to solve all the cold cases in their archive today, just reading through the roughly 30 million sheets of paper would take them about a century. Barring inventions of revolutionary life extension, most perpetrators, and probably the detectives themselves, would be dead by the time they got around to actually investigating them. This is not ideal, to say the least. A cold case, according to the definition the police gave me, is any case since 1988 that carries a jail sentence for over twelve years and has gone unsolved for at least three years.…
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