VICTORIA'S cold case unit will reopen for business on Monday and will immediately draw up a priority list of murders that can be solved.The hit list will be topped by murders in which new leads have emerged, no matter how old the case is.Karmein Chan, the 13-year-old schoolgirl abducted from her Templestowe home and murdered in 1991, will be near the top of the list, with police revealing they have new information about her killer. Prue Bird, another 13-year-old schoolgirl, who went missing from her Glenroy home a year later and is believed to have been murdered, will also make the priority list after police reopened the case following receipt of new information.Police will also step up the search for the killer of murder victim Cindy Crossthwaite, who was bashed to death in her Melton South home on June 20, 2007, and where her 13-month-old son, Jonas, was found locked in a bedroom. The new cold case squad will speak to suspects again.Detectives have always had a suspect in the disappearance of Terry Floyd, a 12-year-old who disappeared while hitchhiking from Avoca to his Maryborough home in 1975. It is a case that police want to bring to a conclusion.Detectives believe they are a phone call away from solving the disappearance of Krystal Fraser, who was due to give birth when she disappeared after leaving a Bendigo hospital for her home town of Pyramid Hill, near Echuca, two years ago.Her body has never been found but police have a key suspect. Detectives believe they are also making up ground on the killing of an Iraqi businessman, Saleh Dheibech, 51 who died after being shot in his panel beating shop in Campbellfield last January.Homicide squad veteran Detective Senior Sergeant Ron Iddles will oversee the unit, with missing persons expert Detective Sergeant Dave Butler in charge of the crew.Detective Senior Sergeant Iddles has investigated 230 homicides and has a success rate of 95 per cent. Detective Sergeant Butler headed up the Belier taskforce, which solved about 150 missing persons cases over three years before being disbanded last year. Homicide chief Inspector John Potter said the new unit would work through old cases and put its resources into murders in which they had received fresh information.''We are looking for new leads to follow through on, as opposed to old cases where there is nothing new,'' Inspector Potter said.''We are currently working on a number of cold cases, which we reopen when we get new information through Crime Stoppers.''This is exactly what happened with the Prue Bird case. We got a lead, reopened it and the information we received is promising - this highlights the fact that no case is put to bed forever.''No case is too old and it's only a phone call away from being solved.''The unit will work through more than 200 unsolved cases and then draw up a shortlist.Victoria's original cold case unit was formed in 1999 but scrapped nine years later.