The Vidocq Society sounds like something straight out of a Sherlock Holmes novel. Once a month, the members of the 20-year-old club -- mostly detectives and forensic experts -- meet at an old ...

WILLOW GROVE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Michael F. Rieders, PhD, VSM, Chairman of the Board of Directors at NMS Labs is the 2013 recipient of The Vidocq Society’s prestigious Dr. Halbert E. Fillinger, Jr.

Founded in 1990, the Vidocq Society met monthly in Philadelphia for lunch and to solve some of the nation's most vexing cold cases. Host Liane Hansen speaks to Michael Capuzzo, author of The Murder ...

Despite journalist Capuzzo's obvious reverence for the crime fighters he profiles, his account of the formation of the legendary Vidocq Society is as scattered as many of the cold case files they wade ...

Police departments from five different counties throughout Pennsylvania were present at the Cold Case Conference held at Muhlenberg College this week. The conference is running from June 18 - 22 on ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Its membership list is straight out of a pulp novel: private detectives, retired FBI agents, polygraph experts, even a forensic scientist specializing in blood spatters. Together they ...

Criminal justice majors at Albright College were brought in to help Reading police solve a cold case. The students and members of the Vidocq Society took a look at the April 2001 stabbing death of ...

A federal judge dismisses a libel suit over an allegation of an extramarital affair in a book about the Vidocq Society, a band of elite investigators who crack unsolved crimes. A federal judge on ...

A national crime assessment organization has decided to review the nearly five-year-old unsolved shooting death of Perry Griffin at a Dothan business.

The Vidocq Society is a Philadelphia-based group of criminologists and forensic experts; they gather together once a month to solve cold cases.... The Vidocq Society: Solving Murders Over Lunch The ...