cold case

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

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.

Adam Brundage went missing in 2004. This month, his former roommate admitted to beating him in the head with a baseball bat and burying his body at a Bucks County quarry.

Police have arrested a man they say was involved in dozens of attacks on women in South Florida during the 1980s.

A woman in Virginia has been charged in the death of a newborn baby nearly 17 years after his body was found in a park. A grand jury in the city of Chesapeake indicted Melissa Sue Chrisman, 41, on charges of felony murder and felony child abuse and neglect, The Virginian-Pilot reported. Police spokesman Leo Kosinski declined to identify Chrisman’s…

Detectives solved the 1981 murder of a Florida woman by using advanced DNA testing to discover the suspect was the football coach of one of her sons, police said. The Lakeland Police Department said Joseph Clinton Mills, 58, has been arrested on charges he raped and killed Linda Patterson Slaten, on Sept. 4, 1981, when she was 31. Slaten was…

Nearly four decades after her disappearance, the family of a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, woman finally has closure after her abusive husband admitted to killing her and dumping her body in a river.

A cold case has been solved after a Bucks County man admitted to and was sentenced for murdering his wife and dumping her body in the Delaware River 38 years ago. NBC10’s Deanna Durante has the details.

A San Francisco murder victim known for 43 years as Jane Doe #40 has been identified by investigators as Judy Gifford, a 14-year-old girl from New Jersey whose aunt kept the same phone number for decades in case her niece tried to call.

Fort Worth police say they’ve solved the decades-old cold case murder of an 11-year-old girl using DNA phenotyping. On June 27, 1983, Julie Fuller was reported missing after she’d gone to take out the trash at the Kensington Motel in Arlington. Fuller and her family had only recently arrived in North Texas, having moved to the United States from England….

The Connecticut father charged in the death of a hotel worker in Anguilla has declined to return to the British Caribbean territory for the latest pretrial hearing.

An arrest was made more than two decades after a rape in 1993. NBC10’s Tim Furlong shows us the federal program that’s allowing police to obtain DNA testing on rape kits from unsolved cases.

A pair of socks helped lead to an arrest in the killing of a Pennsylvania woman nearly 30 years ago, authorities said.

The Writers Guild of America sued the entertainment industry’s four biggest talent agencies Wednesday in the latest and boldest move in an increasingly bitter and protracted fight between the two sides over the way Hollywood does business. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court claims agents’ use of so-called packaging fees is illegal under California law because they...

Police hope a new image will help them solve a decades-old cold case in New Jersey.