Andrew Rosenzweig, Director

Though Mr. Rosenzweig was accomplished and recognized in his assignments as a patrolman in the 41st precinct later known as Fort Apache, and patrol supervisor, some of his most notable achievements were in investigative assignments which included: the New York Joint Task Force (the first federal, state and local drug task force in NYC); Manhattan South Narcotics District; the New York District Attorney’s Squad; and the Office of the Chief of Detectives.

After taking early retirement from NYPD Mr. Rosenzweig formed his own private investigative firm, A. Rosenzweig Associates, Inc, where he served a number of corporate clients in successful investigations of corruption and fraud. His most well known case during this period became known as the Beechnut Nutrition Case, at the time the largest consumer fraud case ever prosecuted by the federal government. Mr. Rosenzweig was later featured on a 20/20 episode that highlighted the case.

In 1985, the legendary District Attorney of New York, Robert M. Morgenthau, called Mr. Rosenzweig back to public service. For almost fourteen years he served as chief of the Investigation Bureau and Chief Investigator for the Manhattan District Attorney. Over that time he oversaw thousands of criminal investigations and a staff of eighty sworn investigators. The range of investigations covered everything from street crimes to sophisticated frauds to the highest levels of organized crime.

Mr. Rosenzweig became best known for his part in re-opening many old homicide investigations and successfully leading the investigations that brought several killers to justice. These included two that were later chronicled in a New Yorker magazine article and later a book, both entitled “A Cold Case”, by award winning author Philip Gourevitch. Actor Tom Hanks and his production company have optioned the film rights for the latter.

After retiring in late 1999 and consulting on a number of unsolved cases Mr. Rosenzweig was again called out of retirement and in January of 2003 he joined the Providence PD where he served as Deputy Chief. He left Providence in July of 2004 and in August of that year he joined the Hartford PD as Assistant Chief, where he served for over one year.

The most recent experiences of Andrew Rosenzweig gave him the opportunity to closely observe the inner workings of three medium sized departments that serve cities with populations of over 100,000 people, with somewhat similar demographics. Each has steady episodes of violence resulting in between twenty and forty murders per year, well above the national per capita murder rate. Though impressed with the hard work and dedication in each of those departments, he became convinced that one of the contributory factors to the escalating violence and the diminution of respect for law and law enforcement was the lack of follow-up on murders that didn’t get cleared or solved and ended up languishing on the shelves of over-worked detective units. That is why Mr. Rosenzweig has created the Cold Case Forum, LLC.