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Advancing a New Era of Violent Crime Investigation
Cold Case America™ is a research initiative of Blue Wall Institute, L.L.C., established by Dr. Olivia Johnson and Dr. Jorey Krawczyn to advance innovative methodologies for analyzing unresolved homicides, missing persons, unidentified human remains, and equivocal death investigations.
Advancing Innovative Investigative Methodologies
Cold Case America™ supports interdisciplinary research and analytical development across four critical areas of violent crime and unresolved death investigation.
Cold Case Homicides
Unidentified Human Remains
Missing and Endangered Persons
Equivocal Death Investigations
Strengthening Investigations Through Partnership
Launching in St. Clair County, Illinois, and expanding nationally, Cold Case America™ serves as a collaborative research, education, and information initiative dedicated to strengthening investigative methodologies.
Its work is grounded in interdisciplinary partnership, scientific inquiry, analytical innovation, and the responsible development of investigative resources that can be adapted across jurisdictions.
The initiative was established in response to the growing national challenge of unresolved violent crime investigations and the increasing demands placed upon law enforcement agencies.
A New Way of Thinking About Violent Crime
Unresolved investigations leave families without answers, communities without closure, and law enforcement agencies managing expanding caseloads with limited investigative resources.
Cold Case America™, a research initiative of Blue Wall Institute, L.L.C., invites investigators, forensic professionals, behavioral scientists, academic institutions, and community stakeholders to participate in a collaborative approach to understanding and resolving violent crime.
A Hybrid Investigative Paradigm
Operational Code™ is a systematic investigative framework that moves beyond conventional approaches by focusing on characterological patterns, transactional relationships, and ritualized decisiveness that manifest into aggression and violence.
Rather than asking investigators to simply collect more evidence, Operational Code™ provides a new paradigm for conceptualizing the evidence they already possess.
What Additional Evidence Can Be Collected?
Conventional methods often concentrate heavily on expanding the volume of evidence, isolated behavioral indicators, motive, deviance, or clinical classifications.
What Does the Existing Evidence Reveal?
Operational Code™ reframes existing investigative information to identify underlying beliefs, decision-making patterns, relationships, and behavioral systems.
Investigative Analytics
Organizing investigative information to reveal meaningful patterns, relationships, and decision pathways.
Developmental Matrices
Examining how beliefs, experiences, and behavioral processes develop and become operationalized.
Systems Thinking
Evaluating criminal conduct within an interconnected system rather than as a series of isolated acts.
The Foundation of Operational Code™
Operational Code™ serves as the foundation for two proprietary analytical systems designed to expand how investigators organize and interpret complex violent-crime information.
Operational Code Information System™
A structured information framework designed to organize, compare, and interpret investigative data through the principles of Operational Code™.
Operational Code of Sex & Violence™
A specialized analytical system focused on understanding the ideological, relational, cognitive, and operational processes associated with sexual and violent conduct.
Looking Beyond Isolated Behavioral Indicators
These systems represent a significant departure from traditional investigative approaches that primarily emphasize motive, deviance, personality disorders, or isolated behavioral indicators.
Operational Code™ instead examines criminal conduct as the observable expression of an individual's underlying ideology, belief system, cognitive processes, relational patterns, and operational decisions.
Underlying ideology and worldview
Core beliefs and internal value systems
Cognitive and decision-making processes
Transactional and interpersonal relationships
Operational patterns and behavioral implementation
Examining How Violence Becomes Operationalized
Within this framework, violent behavior is interpreted as the manifestation of an established operational code rather than simply the product of impulsivity or clinical pathology.
The objective is to recognize how belief systems, cognitive processes, relationships, and decisions combine to produce observable patterns within investigative information.
How does an individual arrive at violence?
How do violent decisions become operationalized?
How can those patterns be recognized in investigative information?
Supporting Investigations Without Superseding Authority
Cold Case America™ does not supersede investigative authority or assume operational control of criminal investigations. Instead, it functions as a collaborative support organization that expands knowledge, resources, and analytical capability.
Consultation
Training
Education
Research
Case Laboratory Development
Resource Expansion
Building a Scalable Framework for the Future of Investigation
Through strategic partnerships with law enforcement agencies, forensic practitioners, academic institutions, and multidisciplinary professionals, Cold Case America™ seeks to strengthen investigative methodologies and expand analytical capabilities.
The long-term objective is to develop a scalable informational framework that supports the prevention, prediction, and resolution of violent crime throughout the United States.