cold case

An Oregon man was arrested this week after being linked to the 1974 cold case homicides of two teenagers, authorities said.

Detectives looking into the unsolved killing of Ruth Marie Terry, known for years only as “The Lady of the Dunes,” are focusing on the woman’s relationships — including her last husband, a man who had once drawn FBI scrutiny in another killing, sources told the NBC10 Boston Investigators.

Ruth Marie Terry has been identified nearly 50 years after she was found dead on Cape Cod, east of Race Point Ranger Station on July 26, 1974.

After an investigation that spanned five states and lasted over four decades, a man from Queens has pleaded guilty to the murder of a WWI veteran who was killed and buried in a backyard back in 1976.

A family finally has some answers about what happened to a 17-year-old girl who went missing from Northern Virginia nearly 50 years ago.

St. Louis-area prosecutors say a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing a man in 1995 has confessed to strangling four women five years earlier. Prosecutors from Lincoln, St. Charles and St. Louis counties, which was where the victims’ bodies were found, said Monday that Gary Muehlberg, a 73-year-old inmate at the Potosi Correctional Center in southeastern Missouri, confessed...

A Colorado man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold case slayings of two women whose bodies were found near the mountain resort town of Breckenridge in 1982. Alan Lee Phillips, 71, was arrested last year in the mountain hamlet of Dumont, west of Denver, after local, state and federal authorities using DNA evidence identified…

A 75-year-old resident of Hawaii has been arrested and charged in the rape and stabbing death of a 15-year-old Palo Alto girl in 1982, authorities announced Tuesday.

Investigators have confirmed that remains unearthed in a Florida junk yard 41 years ago match a missing teenager, the victim of a serial killer now imprisoned for life in California, sheriff’s officials said.

Lancaster County prosecutors and Manor Township police said Monday that a criminal homicide charge had been filed against 68-year-old David Sinopoli in the December 1975 murder of Lindy Sue Beichler. A discarded coffee cup helped lead to the arrest, authorities said.

Authorities have identified one of New Jersey’s oldest cold case victims, a female known for 40 years only as “Princess Doe” following the discovery of her body behind a cemetery off of a highway in New Jersey’s Blairstown Township in 1982. They also announced an arrest, 40 years to the day the female’s body was found behind Cedar Ridge Cemetery…

Police in a New Jersey city are renewing their call for help in solving the shooting death of a young woman who was killed 10 years ago, according to the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. The Linden Police Department is members of the Union County Homicide Task Force said they continue to investigate the death of 18-year-old Amber Duncan-Wilson, who was…

Richard Cottingham has claimed to be responsible for up to 100 murders. Prosecutors say Diane Cusick was one of them.

More than 30 years after a woman was murdered in Broward County, prosecutors say new DNA testing implicates a man who was found not guilty in the killing. Robert Earl Hayes went to trial twice on a first-degree murder charge in the Feb. 20, 1990, killing of Pamela Albertson, a horse groomer at the Pompano Beach race track. The first…

A longtime retired truck driver, Douglas Thomas, was charged with the 1993 murder of Sherri Herrera by the Riverside County District Attorney’s office. He was currently in custody in Texas awaiting prosecution in another woman’s 1992 slaying.

Investigators announced a baby girl, known as “Baby Holly” has been found “alive and well” 40 years after her parent’s remains were found in Texas.

A baby girl who went missing four decades ago after her parents were found slain in Texas has finally been found and is “alive and well,” investigators say.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office has identified and charged the man they say was behind several sexual assaults in the county dating back nearly 40 years.

After 31 years, police have made an arrest in the murder of a Bucks County mom whose body was found in her son’s bedroom following a fire. NBC10’s Deanna Durante has the story.

More than 30 years after a Bucks County mom was found dead following a house fire, a man has been arrested in her murder.