Volunteer team investigates Casa Grande cold cases

(AP) — Three retired law enforcement officers are volunteering to take on a backlog of cold cases at the Casa Grande Police Department.

Homicides and sexual assaults represent some of the department's 55 unsolved crimes, with some dating back decades, reported the Casa Grande Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2kasuWR ).

Retired police chief Charles L. Shayler was volunteering with the Citizens On Patrol program alongside retired police chief Paul Ricks and retired officer Jim Jensen before they started working on the cold case team.

To have two police chiefs and a retired police officer volunteering with us is something that's great for our department.