cold case

More than 30 years after a woman was abducted and raped in Fairfax County, Virginia, police say two brothers were responsible, and new fingerprint evidence helped them make an arrest.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on a plea deal in the murder of Bethany Anne Decker by her boyfriend Ronald Roldan.

An Oregon man was arrested this week after being linked to the 1974 cold case homicides of two teenagers, authorities said.

Detectives looking into the unsolved killing of Ruth Marie Terry, known for years only as “The Lady of the Dunes,” are focusing on the woman’s relationships — including her last husband, a man who had once drawn FBI scrutiny in another killing, sources told the NBC10 Boston Investigators.

Ruth Marie Terry has been identified nearly 50 years after she was found dead on Cape Cod, east of Race Point Ranger Station on July 26, 1974.

Three decades after police first questioned a D.C. teen about a grisly murder, investigators have charged him with the crime. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

Police believe Burbano was tortured and killed in 1992 inside an apartment at 107 Q Street NW. Wright lived in that apartment with his parents.

After an investigation that spanned five states and lasted over four decades, a man from Queens has pleaded guilty to the murder of a WWI veteran who was killed and buried in a backyard back in 1976.

News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke to the teen’s sister about the discovery and the other person authorities are trying to find.

A family finally has some answers about what happened to a 17-year-old girl who went missing from Northern Virginia nearly 50 years ago.

St. Louis-area prosecutors say a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing a man in 1995 has confessed to strangling four women five years earlier. Prosecutors from Lincoln, St. Charles and St. Louis counties, which was where the victims’ bodies were found, said Monday that Gary Muehlberg, a 73-year-old inmate at the Potosi Correctional Center in southeastern Missouri, confessed...

A Colorado man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold case slayings of two women whose bodies were found near the mountain resort town of Breckenridge in 1982. Alan Lee Phillips, 71, was arrested last year in the mountain hamlet of Dumont, west of Denver, after local, state and federal authorities using DNA evidence identified…

Police say a man confessed to the murder of a Montgomery County sheriff’s deputy in 1971. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

A 75-year-old resident of Hawaii has been arrested and charged in the rape and stabbing death of a 15-year-old Palo Alto girl in 1982, authorities announced Tuesday.

Investigators have confirmed that remains unearthed in a Florida junk yard 41 years ago match a missing teenager, the victim of a serial killer now imprisoned for life in California, sheriff’s officials said.

Richard Cottingham has claimed to be responsible for up to 100 murders. Prosecutors say Diane Cusick was one of them.

More than 30 years after a woman was murdered in Broward County, prosecutors say new DNA testing implicates a man who was found not guilty in the killing. Robert Earl Hayes went to trial twice on a first-degree murder charge in the Feb. 20, 1990, killing of Pamela Albertson, a horse groomer at the Pompano Beach race track. The first…

A longtime retired truck driver, Douglas Thomas, was charged with the 1993 murder of Sherri Herrera by the Riverside County District Attorney’s office. He was currently in custody in Texas awaiting prosecution in another woman’s 1992 slaying.

Investigators announced a baby girl, known as “Baby Holly” has been found “alive and well” 40 years after her parent’s remains were found in Texas.

A baby girl who went missing four decades ago after her parents were found slain in Texas has finally been found and is “alive and well,” investigators say.