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November 7, 2021

Rocky Mountain human remains may be those of hiker missing since 1983

Remains found last year in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park are believed to be of a hiker who went missing in 1983 park officials said Thursday, according to reports.

November 4, 2021

Florida man arrested after DNA on beer can links him to ‘gruesome’ 1996 cold case murder, investigators say

Kenneth Stough Jr., 54, was arrested Tuesday in Lake County, Florida, after DNA from a discarded beer can linked him to the brutal 1996 murder of a convenience store employee, who was found stabbed 73 times in a bathroom, investigators said Thursday.

November 4, 2021

Massachusetts dive teams find car, human remains in decades-old cold case of missing 17-year-old girl

Massachusetts authorities announced Tuesday that human remains and a car belonging to a missing 17-year-old girl were recently recovered, marking a break in the cold case that stretches back four decades.

October 28, 2021

Family of Minnesota woman killed in 1980s pleads to advance cold case

The family of a 20-year-old Minnesota woman killed in 1985 during a trip to upstate New York is begging law enforcement to reopen the 37-year-old cold case.

October 27, 2021

NC couple arrested in 30-year cold case of badly beaten, suffocated baby dumped in trash can

A North Carolina husband and wife have been arrested in connection to a 30-year-old cold case involving an infant whose body was stuffed in a trash can in the Outer Banks after advanced DNA analysis identified the couple as the parents of the badly beaten and suffocated baby.

October 23, 2021

Alaska troopers identify serial killer's victim with DNA match after 37 years

A victim of an Alaskan serial killer has finally been identified after almost 40 years thanks genetic genealogy and a DNA match. 

October 23, 2021

In Long Island serial killer investigation, new phone technology may be key to break in case

Suffolk County investigators may be close to a breakthrough in the mystery of the bodies discovered on Gilgo Beach.

October 20, 2021

Atlanta police sending four-decade-old 'deteriorated DNA' from child murders to private lab

The Atlanta Police Department is sending “deteriorated DNA” from the Atlanta Child Murders that happened four decades ago to a private lab with the hope of identifying a suspect in the slayings.

October 15, 2021

California police chief's 1969 letter suspected Zodiac killer link to Cheri Jo Bates murder, group says

The police chief of a Southern California city at the time a young woman was murdered in 1966 said the killing could have been related to the Zodiac Killer murders that occurred hundreds of miles away, despite the department's current stance that the slayings are not related, according to a group who recently claimed to have unmasked the notorious murderer.

October 15, 2021

Ohio cold case involving missing mother and two children linked to SUV found in river, authorities say

A vehicle pulled from the Ohio River in Indiana on Wednesday is connected to a nearly 20-year cold case missing persons investigation in which a woman and her two children vanished.