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August 25, 2019

Virginia police renew investigation into decade-old double murder of teens with new reward

Two Virginia Tech students shot to death in a campground parking lot a decade ago aren’t being forgotten as investigators hoped to renew interest in the case by upping the reward.

August 20, 2019

Louisiana pair arrested in woman's 38-year-old cold case murder

Louisiana authorities have announced the arrests of an imprisoned kidnapper and another man in a decades-old cold case murder.

August 17, 2019

Arrest made in decades-old Florida rape after victim reminds police about case

Florida detectives say DNA helped them crack a brutal rape from 36 years ago that was recently reopened after the victim reached out to remind them that her case was still unsolved.

August 17, 2019

Maine man pleads not guilty in 1993 rape, murder of Alaska woman; bail kept at $1M

A Maine man charged in a 26-year-old cold case rape and murder of a Native woman in Alaska pleaded not guilty in a Fairbanks courtroom Thursday.

August 11, 2019

Could Dorothy Kilgallen mystery be solved through DNA evidence? Worth a try, author says

An author who has investigated the mysterious death of newspaper columnist and TV star Dorothy Kilgallen has asked a judge to let him exhume her body for DNA evidence.

August 7, 2019

Wisconsin man confesses to murdering wife 13 years after she went missing, cops say

Thirteen years to the day his wife was last seen alive in Missouri, a man strolled into a police station in Wisconsin on Sunday and admitted to killing her, according to officials.

July 26, 2019

Human remains found in Colorado oilfield belong to girl, 12, who disappeared almost 35 years ago

Police in Colorado have identified the human remains found in an oilfield this week as those of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews who disappeared from her family home nearly 35 years ago. 

July 25, 2019

Maryland man admits kidnapping, assaulting 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl in 1999

A Maryland man pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl in 1999 after DNA evidence and fingerprint technology helped solve the decades-old crime.

July 24, 2019

JonBenét Ramsey’s former photographer indicted on child porn charges

A former photographer of slain 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey has been indicted in Oregon on child pornography charges following a year-long investigation.

July 19, 2019

DNA, genetic genealogy helps exonerate an innocent man of murder for first time

DNA and genetic genealogy for the first time ever have helped exonerate a man who was convicted of a murder he didn’t commit.