cold case

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.

Marta Rodriguez went missing in 1989, when her son was just four years old.

After more than 30 years, a Virginia cold case has finally been closed. Jose Rodriguez-Cruz, who is already serving time for the murder of Pamela Butler, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing his wife, Marta, in 1989. And now Rodriguez-Cruz’s son is speaking out, telling News4’s Drew Wilder that as he grew older, he lived in fear...

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 interview with a woman who witnessed an unsolved murder more than two decades ago in Prince George’s County was recently dug up by award-winning crime reporter Paul Wagner.

News4’s Shawn Yancy talks with veteran crime reporter Paul Wagner about his podcast about the murder of Sherry Crandell.

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 Southeast D.C. man has been arrested for two murders, one that occurred in 1996 and the other 22 years later in 2018, bringing both cold cases to a close.

D.C. police say they’ve charged a man with two killings that became cold cases, including one from the 1990s. One man is charged with killing two people, two decades apart, in the same neighborhood. News4’s Pat Collins spoke with one victim’s family about finally finding justice.

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.

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.