It’s been more than four years since the mysterious disappearance of San Diego resident Elijah “Bear” Diaz. Now, his family has added $9,000 to a reward in hopes that someone, somewhere can help solve the case

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.

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….

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.

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.

Massachusetts State Police say they have solved a 32-year-old cold case involving the murder of a 15-year-old girl from Kingston.

An Illinois man has been charged with the 1985 murder of a 15-year-old girl in west suburban Glen Ellyn.

Eighteen years after Kristen Modafferi finished her coffee house job in San Francisco and disappeared, possible new evidence has emerged in this Bay Area cold case thanks to a cadaver dog.

A $75,000 reward for information in the decades-old brutal murder of a family of four in Granada Hills was renewed Friday by the Los Angeles City Council in the hope of drawing out new leads in the cold case.