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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.

September 1, 2021

NJ man arrested in 22-year-old cold case murder of high school student Nancy Noga

A New Jersey man has been charged with murder in connection to the 1999 cold case killing of 17-year-old high school student Nancy Noga, authorities said.

September 1, 2021

3 Florida cold case murders linked to Brazilian man killed in 2005 plane crash

A Brazilian man who died in a 2005 plane crash was identified Tuesday as a serial killer who murdered three women in South Florida in the early 2000s, according to reports.

August 27, 2021

Wisconsin man, 84, gets consecutive life sentences for 1976 double homicide after DNA matches him to the crime

An 84-year-old man was sentenced to consecutive life sentences in Wisconsin Friday after a DNA match in 2019 helped investigators solve a pair of more than four-decade-old cold case murders.

August 21, 2021

Remains of Utah woman who vanished in 1979 ID’d with DNA testing, family eyes late husband in her death

A cold case investigation in Utah has been closed after DNA testing identified skeletal remains discovered 42 years ago as those of a missing woman whose family suspected had been murdered by her late husband.