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May 5, 2023

Texas police ID woman as baby abducted over 50 years ago

The Fort Worth, Texas, Police Department on Thursday positively identified Melissa Highsmith as a toddler who was abducted from her family's apartment in 1971 through a DNA test.

April 28, 2023

Georgia Gov. Kemp signs bill to create cold case unit

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill that would create a cold case unit within the state's Bureau of Investigation. The new law is an effort to help families find justice.

April 28, 2023

Accused Michigan golf course rapist was secret investor in Ohio strip clubs: sources

Accused golf course rapist Kurt Rillema allegedly invested in three now closed gentlemen's clubs where he pressured the dancers to have sex with him, sources told Fox News Digital.

April 27, 2023

California convicted serial killer sentenced to second life sentence for Stanford murders

Convicted serial killer John Getreu was sentenced to another life sentence on Thursday by a California judge, nearly four months after pleading guilty to murdering Leslie Perlov.

April 24, 2023

DNA ties Michigan businessman, 'avid golfer' to decades-old fairway rapes

Michigan businessman charged in two rapes after his DNA obtained from a discarded coffee cup matched genetic evidence left at the crime scenes more than 23 years ago, officials said.

April 21, 2023

Florida man charged in Alabama cold case after 8 years

Eight years after a Florida man was found dead in a coastal Alabama community, law enforcement officials in Alabama have arrested and charged a suspect.

April 21, 2023

Canadian professor convicted of 1980 Paris synagogue bombing

Lebanese-Canadian professor Hassan Diab was convicted in absentia of a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing, for which a French court handed down a life sentence.

April 20, 2023

New York police make arrest in decades-old murder of cop's daughter

New York authorities have arrested Edward V. Holley, 42, in the 2003 murder of Megan McDonald, the 20-year-old daughter of an NYPD detective.

April 20, 2023

Oklahoma cold case gets renewed attention after TikTok user's search for her parents

A woman turned to TikTok for help finding her parents. About two years later, Oklahoma officials positively identified Brian and Rachel Burr's remains, which were found in April 1995.

April 17, 2023

Texas man arrested in connection to 1981 cold-case murder of teen girl freed on bond

A Texas man was charged last week with shooting a teenage woman in the head six times more than four decades ago after his DNA matched samples found on her body, officials said.