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May 21, 2019

Man sentenced for wife’s cold-case murder that son helped solve years later

A Florida man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for his wife’s cold-case murder—a crime their son witnessed at 3 and helped crack as an adult.

May 19, 2019

Man arrested for second decades-old Stanford University cold-case murder

A second Stanford University decades-old cold case has been linked to a man who was arrested six months ago through DNA.

May 16, 2019

Convicted serial killer Samuel Little may be connected to cold case murders in Louisiana, official says

A convicted serial killer who has confessed to 90 murders and known for sketching portraits of his victims may be linked to even more unsolved killings in Louisiana, according to the chief of a town where two of the slayings took place.

May 14, 2019

Man charged with 1998 cold-case murder of son found under billboard

The identification in February of a 10-year-old boy whose body was found under a North Carolina interstate billboard 20 years ago has led to an indictment charging the child’s father with the cold case murder.

May 10, 2019

Suspect 'big into drugs' arrested in 1985 slaying of Hollywood director Barry Crane, police say

A man was arrested Thursday in the 33-year-old Hollywood cold case murder of director Barry Crane, according to police.

May 8, 2019

Cold case killing of woman, 80, cracked after 30 years by DNA test, 'perseverance' by detectives

More than three decades after 80-year-old Alice Haynesworth Ryan found stabbed to death on her kitchen floor, authorities in South Carolina announced Monday a cutting-edge DNA test and dogged work by investigators led to an arrest in her killing.

May 7, 2019

Maryland cops arrest man in wife’s cold case murder after proving crime scene was staged: report

Thirty-three years after a Maryland newlywed was fatally stabbed in an apparent house break-in, cold case detectives have charged her husband with the murder.

May 6, 2019

DNA, genetic genealogy help solve Indiana State University student's cold case murder

DNA and genetic genealogy have solved the cold case murder a 19-year-old woman on the campus Indiana State University nearly 47 years ago, police said Monday.

May 4, 2019

California 'sexually violent predator' arrested in cold case rape, murder of woman, 81

A California man classified a sexually violent predator has been arrested in the cold case rape and murder of an 81-year-old woman decades ago.

May 2, 2019

Florida man arrested 47 years after North Carolina mom was found murdered beside her shivering baby

North Carolina’s oldest cold case has been solved after new DNA technology helped lead to the arrest of a homeless Florida man for the 1972 killing of a woman found bound and shot beside her 4-month-old baby, authorities said Tuesday.