title: Cold case homicides. Investigative interviews of child witnesses.
abstract: Nurses interviewing child witnesses in cold case homicide investigations face unique challenges arising from the passage of time. 2.  Postevent influences must be evaluated carefully when examining children's descriptions about remote events. 3.  Interview strategies that incorporate various types of developmentally appropriate tasks offer highly traumatized children the opportunity to tell their stories.  4. Although years may have passed, some children are able to provide accurate and unique details about a homicide they witnessed.
authors.affiliation: University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-3018, USA. tashspears@aol.com
authors.forename: Tascha
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Boychuk-Spears
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001154:Art; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003418:Criminology / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000379:methods; D006708:Homicide / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D008568:Memory; D010781:Photography; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods; D002666:Psychology, Child; D014743:Videotape Recording