Half a Century Cold
By Craft Lemon

More than two dozen unsolved homicides. Eleven missing people. A former mayoral candidate in a Tennessee jail. What Gainesville hasn’t closed, and what the files reveal about who gets searched for. The Gainesville Police Department keeps a list. It runs from 1974 to 2018, give or take. Some entries are paragraphs long. Some are six words and a placeholder photograph because the file is too thin


