This Day in History: Natalee Holloway goes missing, Stephany Flores Ramirez dead five years later, Joran Van der Sloot guilty
May 30, 2005 was the day Natalee Holloway went missing and five years later, Stephany Flores Ramirez was found dead and Joran Van der Sloot confessed to the murder. Authorities believe Van der Sloot attempted to More...
Hartford Man, Arthur Stanley Sentenced to Life for 2011 Murder of Keith Washington
U.S. Attorney John H. Durham and Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane announced that ARTHUR STANLEY, also known as “Wiggs,” 29, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New More...
Former Babysitter Nicole Chapple Arrested 12 Years After Brutal LA Murder of Taja Jones
Twelve years after the gruesome killing of 35-year-old Taja Jones who was found beaten and shot in a vehicle in South Los Angeles in 2006, a woman and her boyfriend were arrested and are now facing murder charges. More...
Bronx Man, Jose Santiago-Ortiz Sentenced to Life for 2010 murder of Jerry Tide
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSE SANTIAGO-ORTIZ was sentenced today to three consecutive life sentences for murder, participating in a narcotics More...
DNA links serial rapist Michael Sumpter to 1969 Cold Case murder of Harvard student Jane Britton
A Massachusetts district attorney announced Tuesday afternoon that the 1969 cold case murder of a Harvard University student has finally been solved thanks to forensic DNA testing. Serial rapist Michael Sumpter More...
Cold Case: Serial killer Samuel Little confesses multiple murders from 1970s, 1980s, including Fredonia Smith, Daisy McGuire, Dorothy Richard
Two investigators in Georgia appear to have closed the book on two cold case murders over 35 years ago as serial killer Samuel Little. Little also confessed to details linked to the Louisiana strangling of Dorothy More...
Cold Case: DNA Testing identifies Elizabeth Lamotte as dead body found in 1985
According to a release from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, a partially decomposing body found in 1985 has been identified as Elizabeth “Liz” Lamotte, a missing teenager from New Hampshire. Elizabeth More...
Florida: Benjamin Holmes arrested for 2001 cold case murder of Christine Franke after geneaology site links DNA
A DNA match from a genealogy website helped Orlando police detectives make in an arrest in the 2001 slaying of a University of Central Florida student. Benjamin Holmes has been arrested for the shooting death of More...
Washington State: Tommy Ross Jr walks free from 40-year-old murder case, arrested again in Oregon six hours later
A bizarre story from the northwest as a 60-year-old man convicted of murder who was also charged in a 40-year-old Port Angeles murder case had his charges dismissed by a judge, walked out of the Clallam County More...
Florida: Curtis Webb charged in 2001 Cold Case murder of Victoria Arena
From Florida, comes news that Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit has closed a 2001 murder case after the unexpected death of the suspect in the investigation: Curtis Webb. Victoria Arena, 32, was More...
Wisconsin: Body found in lake identified as Thomas Engel, who went missing in 1996
A body found in a Wisconsin lake last year has officially been identified as Thomas Engel, a man who was reported as missing in 1996. Engel, 31 at the time of the report, was found dead in a Waukesha County lake, Okauchee More...
Connecticut: William Leverett bursts into church to confess to the murder of Hartford jogger Melissa Millan
A man burst into a Connecticut church and confessed to the congregation that he was the person who killed a Hartford jogger four years ago. Michael Trazinski, the pastor at Open Gate Ministries in East Granby, talked More...
Florida: Luke Fleming arrested for 1999 Cold Case murder of Deborah Dalzel
A Florida man has been arrested in the 1999 cold case murder of a 47-year-old Sarasota woman who was raped, then strangled with a T-shirt. On March 29, 1999 Deborah Dalzell was brutally attacked, beaten and gagged More...
Florida Cold Case: DNA links Orlance Sangster to 2010 murder of Damion Allen
Orlance Sangster Florida authorities announced that they have solved a cold case murder with the arrest of an incarcerated drug dealer who sports a tattoo of a spider web on his forehead and a tattoo of the words More...
Cold Case: Greg Agnew arrested for murdering wife Martha Agnew, connected to Tammy Niver case
Tammy Niver had seemingly vanished in 1993, but a Michigan man has been arrested and allegedly connected to Niver’s death. Greg Agnew, 50, was arraigned Friday afternoon at the Washtenaw County Court, charged More...
Cold Case: Golden State killer Joseph DeAngelo back in court, linked to Claude Snelling, Jennifer Armour cases
The former Exeter Police officer and accused Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo was back in a Sacramento County courtroom Thursday. DeAngelo, also believed to be the Visalia Ransacker, has already been charged More...
1976 Cold Case: David Schuldes and Ellen Matheys murders still unsolved, but DNA tech leads to new photo of suspect
David Schuldes and Ellen Matheys, an engaged couple from Green Bay, were camping in McClintock Park where they were both killed on July 9th 1976. David was found on a path near a restroom and had been shot in the More...
Cold Case ends as Charley Hollin after running from the law after 1999 abduction, molestation of Indiana child
A man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 1999 abduction and sexual assault of a southern Indiana girl, after which authorities say he assumed the identity of a car crash victim and lived for years More...
Golden State Killer identified as Joseph DeAngelo, arrested decades after his crimes
On Wednesday, authorities in Sacramento announced that they had arrested a former police officer after matching “discarded DNA evidence from his Sacramento area home with genetic evidence” from the crimes committed More...
Arizona cold case: Ian Mitcham arrested for 2015 murder of Allison Feldman
Police in Scottsdale, Arizona, announced that Ian L. Mitcham, of Tempe, Arizona, was arrested for the 2015 murder of Allison Feldman. Feldman, 31, was originally from Shorewood and graduated from Minnetonka High More...
