This 2013 article from Mental Floss focuses on the Vidocq Society, an amateur detecting club that considers "cold cases," and occasionally solves them. While the Society has no official status, its members have professional qualifications. The Vidocq Society is named for Francois-Eugene Vidocq, the world's first private detective, and model for such fictional detectives as Sherlock Holmes.
An organization like the Vidocq Society reminds me of the Court of Last Resort, set up by the last Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason. Gardner and some friends thought an informal "court of last resort," experts working to solve cases that seemed to be miscarriages of justice, would be a good use of their leisure time. They did manage to obtain reversals of fortune for some of those convicted and sentenced. Gardner wrote about the cases in The Court of Last Resort: The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought To Save the Wrongfully Convicted. A new edition is available from Open Road Media (2017), in paperback and etext editions.
More here about the Court of Last Resort.
An organization like the Vidocq Society reminds me of the Court of Last Resort, set up by the last Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason. Gardner and some friends thought an informal "court of last resort," experts working to solve cases that seemed to be miscarriages of justice, would be a good use of their leisure time. They did manage to obtain reversals of fortune for some of those convicted and sentenced. Gardner wrote about the cases in The Court of Last Resort: The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought To Save the Wrongfully Convicted. A new edition is available from Open Road Media (2017), in paperback and etext editions.
More here about the Court of Last Resort.
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