cold case

A 69-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing to death a National City convenience store clerk nearly half a century ago, police said Thursday.

Authorities say genetic genealogy helped lead to the arrest and indictment of a man in the 1999 slaying of a New Jersey teenager.

The man accused of kidnapping and killing 17-year-old Western Hills High School junior Carla Walker in 1974 waived his right to a jury trial and changed his plea to guilty Tuesday morning.

Detectives say the 22-year-old Pata was walking from his car toward the stairs at the apartment building on Nov. 7, 2006 when he was shot.

More than 20 years after a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped and raped by a man in Escondido, an arrest has been made in the heinous case that was once cold, police announced Thursday.

The mother claimed at the time of 2014 arrest that her 5-year-old son disappeared when the two were at a carnival in May 1991, but investigators doubted her story — which changed several times

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death last week, a prosecutor said Monday. Incriminating admissions Richard Lavigne made in a series of recent interviews while in a medical facility further implicated the longtime suspect in…

The cold case of a missing Delaware County teenage girl is now a homicide investigation as police dig for evidence in the wooded area where they believe she went missing exactly 46 years ago.

It was 46 years ago when Wendy Eaton of Media, Delaware County disappeared. Now, investigators are calling the case a homicide and are digging for evidence in the woods behind a house close to where she was last seen.

San Diego County Sheriff’s Detectives had exhausted all leads to determine whose legs were found in a dumpster in Rancho San Diego in 2003. But two decades later – with the help of public genealogy databases mixed with their own investigative tools – detectives were finally able to crack the case, officials announced Friday.

A New Jersey serial killer known as the “Torso Killer” pleaded guilty Tuesday to two 1974 murders, finally closing the cold-case deaths of teenage friends who had left home for a trip to the mall and never returned. Richard Cottingham, 74, is currently in state prison on a life sentence for other murders. He has claimed he was responsible for up...

Authorities have finally identified two homicide victims who were found in the Southern California desert in 1980 and linked to a man imprisoned for murder in Mississippi.

The 1984 killing of a 59-year-old woman in Pembroke has finally been solved, Massachusetts State Police and the Plymouth District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Virginia Hannon’s alleged killer, Jesse Aylward of Brockton, is dead and was turned in by a friend the day after he died in February 2020 at the age of 58, Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz said….

An unidentified pregnant woman was found dead in a well in Bucks County back in October of 1988. She was known as Bucks County Jane Dow until Tuesday when officials announced she has been identified as Lisa Todd. NBC10’s Deanna Durante shows how science and forensics were used to make the connection.

After an investigation that spanned more than three decades, police have identified a pregnant Philadelphia woman whose skeletal remains were found 33 years ago at an abandoned distillery in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

On the 17th anniversary of the disappearance of Maura Murray, her family is still hopeful. “I’m hoping something shakes loose this year,” said her older sister, Julie. Julie’s and Maura’s brother, Kurtis, held a virtual candlelight vigil Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., the last time Maura was seen. “It’s kind of crazy to think it’s 17 years. I’ve spent more...

It’s a case that has kept Fort Lauderdale detectives guessing for decades: Teresa “Bunny” Fittin was last seen on Aug. 1, 1975. At the time of her disappearance, she was 18 years old. Today, she’d be 63, two decades younger than her mother Jocelia Travisano, who is still alive, on oxygen, and desperate to know what happened to her daughter….

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…