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February 22, 2019

Cold case detectives charge Florida man with murder in wife’s 1979 disappearance in Wisconsin

Wisconsin cold case detectives alleged this week that a mother of two who disappeared 40 years ago was murdered by her husband.

February 20, 2019

Suspect is arrested for murder of 11-year-old girl who was abducted and left in ditch 45 years ago

Police say they have arrested a suspect in the 45-year-old murder of Linda O'Keefe, who was 11 when she was abducted in 1973.

February 17, 2019

Murdered Memphis mother may be subject in serial killer's sketches, family claims

A convicted murderer who has confessed to over 90 killings may be linked by a jailhouse portrait to an unsolved killing of a woman in in Memphis who last seen alive on Christmas Eve over two decades ago.

February 16, 2019

New testing helps nab nurse, 44, in brutal Alaska killing from 25 years ago, authorities say

A relatively new type of genetic testing was credited Friday with helping authorities in Alaska solve a case in which a 20-year-old woman was found brutally murdered in the bathroom of a university dorm room more than 25 years ago.

February 15, 2019

Arizona truck driver charged in 1997 cold-case rape linked to four other murders, officials say

Authorities say DNA from an Arizona man recently indicted in a 1997 Ohio rape case links him to the unsolved slayings of four women at truck stops in Ohio and Illinois.

February 14, 2019

Dying witness breaks open 1973 cold-case murder of Tennessee trucker, prosecutor says

A dying witness, in one of their final moments, gave authorities investigating a 1973 murder the break in a cold case they had been hoping for, a Tennessee prosecutor said.

February 14, 2019

Skull discovered in California linked by DNA to cold case killing of mother of 2

More than four decades after a California woman was last seen alive, her family is finally getting some closure after officials used DNA to link a skull discovered by a group of hikers.

February 11, 2019

Two Massachusetts law enforcement officials join forces to resolve 25-year-old murder of fellow Marine

Yuriy Bekhenik, a Massachusetts state trooper, and state police sergeant John Fanning are determined to help solve the 25-year-old cold case murder of fellow Marine David Cox, who was involved in a hazing incident that inspired the movie “A Few Good Men.”

February 11, 2019

Ex-con metalworker was serial killer 'Jack the Stripper,' British criminologist claims in new documentary

A British criminologist is claiming that a metalworker, Harold Jones, who was released from jail in 1941 and died of cancer in 1971,  may have been behind the 'Jack the Stripper' murders of six prostitutes.

February 10, 2019

Florida woman arrested in 1986 murder of her son, 3, who was reported missing, reports say

A Florida woman was arrested last month for the murder of her 3-year-old son more than three decades after she reported her missing and insisted the child’s biological father was involved in his disappearance, reports said.