cold case

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.

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 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.

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...

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan announced that they have identified the killer in the 1969 cold case murder of Jane Britton as serial rapist Michael Sumpter, who died in 2001 at the age of 54 from cancer. “The mystery has finally been solved,” Ryan said Tuesday afternoon, saying investigators linked Sumpter’s DNA to the remaining evidence samples in the case.

Authorities searched Monday for a 13-year-old girl they believe is in danger after her parents were found dead in their western Wisconsin home. Deputies went to the home in Barron after dispatchers received a 911 call from an unknown person at around 1 a.m. Monday, Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said. He said they found the bodies of Jayme Closs’...

Linda O’Keefe’s body was discovered on July 7, 1973 in the Back Bay area of Newport Harbor. Some 45 years later, her killer has still not been found. For the first time, the Newport Beach Police Department is live tweeting over a cold case to try to find closure.