cold case

A 75-year-old Pennsylvania man has pleaded not guilty to strangling a young Southern California mother in 1969.

Authorities in Hayward on Monday charged 59-year-old David Misch in the cold case kidnapping and killing of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht, who disappeared 32 years ago.

Miami police detectives say they have solved a 45-year-old cold case with the arrest of 68-year-old Hipolito Guzman. The 1975 arrest warrant of the incident alleges that while the victim, Jose Caesar Pacheco, was being stabbed to death, Guzman discouraged witnesses and later served as the getaway driver. “Your honor we are trying to put together whether or not this…

New Jersey’s Supreme Court has heard arguments in a woman’s appeal of her conviction for killing her 5-year-old son in 1991.

Authorities in Colorado used DNA to identify a man who was found dead by hikers 46 years ago, while his wife remains missing.

Police are hoping new DNA and digital imaging technology can help them solve a nearly 45-year-old killing of a young woman in Davie.

Police said Glen Samuel McCurley was in custody Tuesday in connection with the 1974 murder of Carla Walker, who was 17 years old when she was abducted, held captive and eventually murdered.

Yaser Abdel Said, a Lewisville cab driver wanted in connection with brutal slayings of his two teenage daughters, is in custody in North Texas after 12 years on the run.

A DNA match has solved the strangulation murder of a teenager in southeast Alaska, a case that was cold for 24 years and saw another man acquitted of the crime after confessing, Alaska State Troopers said Tuesday. DNA obtained from Steve Branch, 66, of Austin, Arkansas, at an autopsy matched that of a sample left at the scene where Jessica…

Officials say they’ve solved the 1991 murder case of a teenager who was raped and strangled with her bikini top on Valentine’s Day in the Florida Keys.

Walter Ogrod was convicted of killing 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in 1988. But the evidence showed there was no way he could’ve done it.

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office said Walter Ogrod was innocent of the 1988 murder of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn. NBC10 Investigators’ Claudia Vargas reports.

Detectives are struggling to connect with victims through thick masks, and investigators accustomed to wearing plainclothes are digging out their dusty uniforms for patrol duty as the coronavirus pandemic rages

Authorities served another search warrant Wednesday morning at the San Pedro home of a former classmate of Kristin Smart, a California college student who disappeared in 1996.  The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that it served a search warrant at the home of Paul Flores, who is considered a person of interest in Smart’s...

A Florida police department says it solved a 35-year-old homicide by using DNA to find a relative of the alleged killer and then creating a family tree to track him down.

A woman and her son, both of Florida, have been indicted in connection with two murders that remained unsolved for 25 years in New Jersey, prosecutors announced Thursday. Last month, Dolores Morgan, 66, and her 47-year-old son, Ted Connors, were each charged with two separate counts of first-degree murder in connection to the deaths of Ana Mejia and Nicholas Conner. On...

Authorities say new DNA tests have allowed them to solve the rape and murder of a woman whose body was found at the boardwalk of a seaside city in New Jersey nearly three decades ago

Four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn went missing in 1988. She was found dead inside a cardboard box. Four years after her murder, police arrested Walter Ogrod. He was convicted and remains in prison.

Sixteen years after a Bucks County man went missing, his family finally has closure after an arrest was made in his murder. NBC10’s Denise Nakano has the details.