Cold Case Resolutions emphasizes a multi-disciplinary team approach to investigating cold cases. As such our team is built of experts in relevant fields with extensive real-world experience working and resolving cold cases. Complex unsolved cases require a comprehensive application of investigative techniques and forensic technologies to give your cases the best prospect for resolution and answers for survivors. From comprehensive reviews and case analysis to investigative strategies. We provide support for interview/interrogation, behavioral analysis, crime scene analysis, digital evidence analysis, contemporary DNA testing, forensic investigative genetic genealogy, victim advocacy to trial preparation/presentation, and everything in between. We are here to empower you to do what is best for your cases, victims, and survivors.
Meet The Team
Chris Flanagan
Co-Founder, Cold Case Resolutions
Retired, Fairfax County Police Department
Chris holds a B.S in Criminal Justice from Radford University ('87) and served over 33 years with the Fairfax County Police Department (VA), including 27 years as a detective across Narcotics, Robbery, Homicide, and Cold Case. Over a 20-year homicide career, he investigated high-profile capital murders—including the Beltway Snipers—and led police critical incident investigations. After retiring from the Fairfax County Police Department, Chris worked for a private forensic DNA lab facilitating the application of forensic genetic genealogy testing for unsolved murders, sexual assaults, missing persons and uniidentified human reamins cases.
Chris is the longtime president of the Mid-Atlantic Cold Case Homicide Investigators Association and Vice President of the Virginia Homicide Investigators Association. He has assisted in the development of curriculum and instructed nationally on cold case investigations and cold case unit protocols. He has served as a cold case subject matter expert for the Police Executive Research Forum and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Chris has been a member of the Vidocq Society since 2020.
Johnny A. Capocelli
Co-Founder, Cold Case Resolutions
Retired, Chesterfield County Police Department
Johnny A. Capocelli is a retired Chesterfield County Police Department detective with 30 years of law-enforcement service, including 25 years in investigative assignments spanning undercover operations, homicide investigations, and cold-case work. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice, with a minor in Psychology, from Radford University in 1990. In 2008, Capocelli was named Virginia Homicide Investigator of the Year in recognition of his work in solving Chesterfield County’s first ever cold-case double homicide. While serving as the senior investigator in the Chesterfield County Police Department’s Unsolved Major Investigations Group (UMIG), he was the lead investigator in the first of three successful No-Body Homicide investigations and prosecutions.
Now retired from active law enforcement, Capocelli remains a national instructor and cold case consultant, sharing investigative strategies and case review techniques with agencies throughout the country. He serves on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Cold Case Homicide Investigators Association (MACCHIA) and regularly instructs for the Pennsylvania State Police Advanced Homicide Symposium, and the Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Services Council’s Murder II Prosecutor Training.
Matthew C. Ackley
Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney, Henrico County VA
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney
Mr. Ackley is currently a Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney in Henrico County and formerly served as Special Counsel to the Richmond Multijurisdictional Grand Jury, which serves the City of Richmond and the Counties of Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico. He has been a prosecutor since 1999 in both state and federal courts, serving as a Senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Richmond, and later as an Assistant in the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia and a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Richmond Office of the U.S. Attorney. He has prosecuted state and federal narcotics and firearms cases, wiretap investigations, and murder cases, including a federal death penalty murder trial. Mr. Ackley received his undergraduate degree in 1993 from the University of Virginia and his law degree with honors in 1996 from the University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law.
Todd McCurdy
Corporal, Pennsylvania State Police
Corporal McCurdy of the Pennsylvania State Police is currently assigned to the Criminal Investigation Assessment Unit. He has been with the Pennsylvania State Police since 2005. Todd has been investigating major crime since 2009. In September 2016, Todd was promoted to the rank of Corporal and assigned as the Troop J Lancaster Criminal Investigation Unit Supervisor, where he also served as a Major Case Team Supervisor. During his tenure, McCurdy was the major case manager for numerous homicide investigations ranging from officer involved shootings to no-body homicide cases. In May of 2021, Corporal McCurdy was assigned as Supervisor of the Criminal Investigation Assessment Unit. McCurdy has participated in the investigation of hundreds of deaths during his career. He has extensive training in the behavioral arts as they apply violent crime.
Corporal McCurdy is a board certified Fellow with the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship, Criminal Investigative Analysis Division. He is a graduate of Millersville University of Pennsylvania in 2003.
Jeff Baney
Trooper First Class, Pennsylvania State Police
Jeff is a Trooper First Class with the Pennsylvania State Police, where he has served since 2010. He currently serves as Assistant Supervisor of the Criminal Investigation Assessment Unit. Before joining the unit, he was assigned to the Chambersburg Criminal Investigation Unit, where his work focused primarily on investigating reports of sexual and physical abuse of children.
Throughout his career, Jeff has participated in hundreds of death investigations. His experience includes cold case investigations, homicide prosecutions, missing persons investigations, equivocal death analysis, and forensic investigative genetic genealogy. He has extensive training in the application of behavioral science to violent crime investigations.
Jeff earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Lock Haven University in 2001. In August 2018, he earned a master’s degree in Applied Criminology from California University of Pennsylvania, along with certificates in Behavioral Crime Analysis and Applied Criminology. In October 2022, he earned a graduate certificate in Forensic Genetic Genealogy from the University of New Haven’s Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences.