Publications
Books
Cold Cases: Evaluation Models with Follow-up Strategies for Investigators, Second Edition (Advances in Police Theory and Practice)
Published October 29, 2014
Death Investigations, The 2nd Edition
Published July 21, 2016
Homicide: Guidelines for Conducting Homicide Investigations by Detectives – for Detectives
Published March 2022
Journal Articles
Department Of Justice Journal of Federal Law and Practice, Vol 69, Number 1, January 2021
“Cold cases: An Exploratory Study into the Status of Unresolved Homicides in the USA“
Investigative Sciences Journal, May 2017
“Captain Gordon Hess – Homicide or Suicide? An Equivocal Death Analysis and Case Study“
Investigative Sciences Journal, March 2011
Op-Eds
“Want to Reduce Cold Cases? Invest in Solving Homicides Now“
The Crime Report, January 12, 2021
“Memphis City Council needs to empower MPD by hiring more officers and detectives“
The Commercial Appeal, September 29, 2020
“Memphis could be subject to ‘Ferguson effect’ if we don’t support MP“
The Commercial Appeal, September 1, 2020
“Fixing Americas Cold Case Crisis“
The Crime Report, November 28, 2018
“Memphis and Nashville Will be Safer with Full Time Cold Case Crime Units“
The Tennessean, November 26, 2018
“Memphis versus Nashville, The Cold Case Crisis“
The Tennessean, July 19, 2018
“Police Could Use Outside Help to Solve Cold Cases“
The Memphis Flyer, June 21, 2018
“Opinion – Do We Have a Cold Case Crisis“
The Commercial Appeal, June 20, 2018
“Getting Away with Murder: The National Crisis of Cold Case Homicides“
The Crime Report, March 20, 2017
“Why Solving Old Murders Can Help Prevent New Ones“
The Crime Report, April 4, 2017
“Murder on Hold: Rural Cops Need Help to Solve Rising Cold Case Backlog“
The Crime Report, May 25, 2017
Other
“National Best Practices for Implementing and Sustaining a Cold Case Investigation Unit“
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice, July 2019, (as a member of the NIJ Cold Case Working Group, Dr. Adcock contributed and assisted in the preparation of this document).