October 6, 2021 Cold case team says Zodiac Killer ID'd, linking him to another murder A team of specialists that investigate cold cases says it has identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America's most prolific serial murderers who terrorized communities in the San Francisco area in the late 1960s with a series of brutal slayings and unsolvable riddles.
September 30, 2021 Florida man confesses to killing woman in 2011: 'Couldn't live with the guilt anymore' Benjamin Moulton walked into the Manatee County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday and confessed to the unsolved murder of a woman found strangled and dumped in a remote area in 2011, authorities said.
September 30, 2021 Cold case murder of Massachusetts teen solved without DNA technology, suspect arrested in Georgia A cold case unit's "relentless investigative work" helped solve the three-decades-old cold case murder of 17-year-old Patricia Moreno in Massachusetts.
September 23, 2021 Las Vegas man arrested 47 years after cold case killing of 7-Eleven clerk A 68-year-old Las Vegas man was arrested last week in connection with a nearly 50-year-old cold case murder of a woman in Southern California.
September 22, 2021 Mississippi woman identified 44 years after her murder likely victim of serial killer Clara Birdlong said she was leaving Mississippi with a man to go to Florida in 1977, a friend told investigators with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department last August. Her family never heard from her again.
September 17, 2021 Murder suspect arrested 9 years after North Carolina college student Faith Hedgepeth killing A 28-year-old North Carolina man was arrested and charged with first-degree murder Thursday, nine years after the killing of a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student.
September 15, 2021 Florida police crack cold case murder of girl, 15, found stabbed in her home 20 years ago Florida police announced Tuesday a break in a cold case stretching back nearly 20 years involving a 15-year-old girl who was found brutally murdered inside her own home.
September 8, 2021 Oregon police charge man in cold case murder of his wife 25 years after her body discovered The skeletal remains of Kathy Thomas were discovered in the hills of Polk County, Oregon, in 1996; investigators worked more than two decades to identify the body and bring her justice.
September 7, 2021 Boston DA charges convicted sex offender in 1988 cold case murder, rape of Judy Chamberlain Massachusetts prosecutors announced Monday that a convicted sex offender in state custody has been charged with the rape and murder of a Boston woman in a cold case that went unsolved for 33 years.
September 2, 2021 DC man accused of killing mother also charged in three cold case slayings, one nearly 30 years old A Maryland man accused of killing his mother and stabbing someone this past weekend has been charged in connection with three cold case slayings in Washington D.C., including one that goes back nearly 30 years, authorities said Thursday.