Shawnee County considers creating special task force

By Associated Press

CREATED Jan. 20, 2013

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)   The Shawnee County district attorney and county commissioners are discussing the formation of a task force targeting cold-case slayings.  

The Associated Press reports that funds from the county commission would pay for a prosecutor to head the unit.  
 
Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor said investigators from the Topeka Police Department, Shawnee County Sheriff's Office and Kansas Bureau of Investigation would work on the cold cases.  
 
Taylor declined to say how much money his office is seeking to fund the task force. He also wouldn't specify what cases would be examined, saying only that they date from the 1970s to about three years ago.