Quiz: True Crime Cold Cases
In The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell, DI Caius Beauchamp is faced with two cold cases: a yuppie CEO of a family firm who scarpered with the pension fund and a missing schoolgirl who disappeared from her windswept, crumbling Cornish boarding school fifteen years before.
To celebrate the release of the paperback edition of The In Crowd, put your true crime knowledge to the test in our true crime cold cases quiz.
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The murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon in 1975 were found to be linked, but the killer has never been found. In 2015, how much did The Metropolitan Police offer the public as a reward for new information?
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British TV presenter and journalist Jill Dando’s unsolved murder became one of the largest criminal investigations in British History. What TV show did she host?
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How many cold cases do you think are on the Metropolitan Police Force’s backlog?
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How long did it take two mystery thieves to steal $500 million worth of art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990?
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AI may soon be used to tackle Britain’s most notorious cold cases. In a recent trial, how long did it take an AI platform to review evidential material that would take a human 81 years to manually review?
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Which cold case was finally closed in 2020 ?
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Which famous American cold case starring Clint Eastwood inspired the 1971 film Dirty Harry?
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How many mysteries has the TV show Unsolved Mysteries solved since it first aired in 1987?
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Quiz: True Crime Cold Cases
On thin ice
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Snow problem
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Brrr-illiant
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