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For those looking for something a little different for a Valentine’s Day date this year, Georgia Writers Museum (GWM) is presenting a special Crime & Wine event featuring a lovefueled, Atlanta-based cold case, and wine.
Crime & Wine attendees take an in-depth look at unsolved cases after being provided with unique “murder boxes” that include the reports, photographs and analysis necessary to understanding an unsolved homicide.
The Crime & Wine experience was developed by Sheryl McCollum, founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), which assists families and law enforcement with unsolved homicides, missing persons and kidnapping cases. The one-of-a-kind band of all-volunteer crime fighters ranges from students to nationally recognized experts such as profilers, detectives, crime analysts, prosecutors and crime scene investigators.
McCollum, author of Cold Case: Pathways to Justice, also is an Emmy Award-winning crime scene investigator (CSI) from CBS46’s CSI Atlanta, a writer for CrimeOnLine.com, a forensic and crime scene expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta police department.
She holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing, and has received the Metro Atlanta Crime Commission Award, Department of Justice Award, and The President’s Innovation Award. She also will be inducted in March to the National Law Enforcement Officer Hall of Fame.
McCollum believes each individual brings their own knowledge and perspective to each investigation that she and her team may not possess, but that can produce real leads that might help solve the featured Crime & Wine cases. She and her team will follow up on and report back to law enforcement authorities, all practical leads suggested during the GWM evening’s event.
Join GWM Friday, Feb. 17, for a very special Valentine’s Day Crime & Wine. For true crime junkies, this program makes you the investigator. Pre-registration is required, with tickets $45 per person or $80 per couple.
Tickets can be purchased online at www. georgiawritersmuseum. org. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the investigation begins at 7 p.m.
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