Students Conquering Cold Cases- Pitt

04/18/2026

Congratulations to our 2026-2027 Executive Board!

01/14/2026

Spring applications are open! Apply by tonight @ 11:59 PM 🩶

03/25/2022

Check out the latest article on our club, written by our University’s own The Pitt News!

The campus group Students Conquering Cold Cases investigates unsolved cases from around the Pittsburgh region. Founded in 2015, the club provides students an opportunity to get hands-on experience with investigating authentic case files.

12/17/2021

Help us help our law enforcement partners! If you or anyone you know has information about this investigation, contact the Beaver County police or the District Attorney's office. Any tip could get us one step closer to answers for Ms. Rocknick’s family and friends.

Those with information leading to an arrest in the 2005 case can earn up to $10,000 in rewards.

09/10/2021

Come stop by the SCCC table at the Activites Fair tomorrow! Whether you’re a current or prospective member we can’t wait to meet you!

10/25/2020

Hello all! Communications Liaison 2020-21 Nadia here! We are ordering merch for the club and we are opening it up to alumni as well. We are selling long sleeve crewnecks and the picture of the final template is attached. Price would be around 30$. Please let me know if you would like to order one as an alum at [email protected], and we can get you all set along with our current club members!!! Include in your email your size preference and whether or not you are a SCCC alum.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezKjLzQ8dSK6xAbwR4ArTGkZNp1mBpdkmYITbksa8Gl7h9Fw/viewform

04/13/2020

All of us at SCCC would like to extend our condolences to the families of Chief Sealock and Chief Romutis. Chief Sealock led the Aliquippa Police Department, and Chief Romutis led the Ambridge Police Department while being a professor who taught many of the students we've had in our organization over the years. We thank them both for their years of dedication and service to our communities.

02/27/2020

Help us help our law enforcement partners! If you or anyone you know has information about this investigation, contact the Arnold police or the District Attorney's office. Any tip could get us one step closer to answers for Ms. Coyle's family and friends.

It's been more than a quarter of a century since a 74-year-old woman was brutally murdered in her home. To this day, the question of who did it remains unknown and it has her son on a mission for answers. 

02/18/2020

It's always a great way to start the week when we can read about cases closing. Check out what new DNA evidence was able to uncover in this South Carolina homicide investigation.

Nearly 24 years after the death of 23-year-old Shawn Marie Neal, police in South Carolina say they have identified the man who killed her using newly discovered DNA evidence.

02/03/2020

On National Missing Persons Day, take a minute and see if you can help. You never know where the smallest bit of information could lead investigators.

Do you see anyone you recognize? On National Missing Persons Day, spending a few minutes looking through our kidnapped and missing persons page could change a life. Help the FBI locate these individuals, and submit tips to tips.fbi.gov. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap

01/03/2020

Check out this write-up on a 40-year-old cold case. It’s never too late to bring justice to victims and families.

Forty years ago, on New Year's Day, 1980, Kimberly Shawn Vaught's body was found on Naval Base Charleston. The 21-year-old had been strangled. To this day, agents with the Naval