cold case

Nearly 30 years after two women were raped near a Metro station in Northern Virginia, a suspect has been charged. A dropped baseball cap and genetic genealogy helped crack the case, Arlington County Police say.  Michael F. Thomson, 63, was arrested Tuesday at his home in Montross, Virginia, after the attacks near the East Falls Church Metro station in 1991….

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on the plea from Jose Rodriguez Cruz in the 1989 murder of his estranged wife.

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…

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office plans to make an arrest in the cold case disappearance of 21-year-old Bethany Decker in 2011. News4’s Pat Collins explains the break in the case, nine years in the making.

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

Nearly two decades after a Maryland man was shot and killed, his family is renewing their fight for justice, and taking the extraordinary step of filing murder charges. Tylandis Cortez Washington was shot and killed nearly 20 years ago in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Gaithersburg. “It’s been so long, 18 years, and I’m not going to…

Nearly two decades after a Maryland man was shot and killed, his family is renewing their fight for justice, and taking the extraordinary step of pressing murder charges.

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.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on a mother’s plea for justice a year after witnessing her son’s murder.

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.

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.

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.

The man shot and killed by Montgomery County police in Virginia Beach Wednesday was wanted for a 1992 homicide in rural Maryland. Jackie Bensen reports.

The search for a homicide suspect took Montgomery County detectives to Virginia Beach, where they had a deadly confrontation with the suspect. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

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.