cold case

An Oregon man was arrested this week after being linked to the 1974 cold case homicides of two teenagers, authorities said.

Days after a murder victim whose body was found on Cape Cod in 1974 was identified, her family members are speaking about the case. The woman, known for decades only as “The Lady of the Dunes,” was identified Monday as Ruth Marie Terry. Her family is still trying to process what happened. Brittanie Novonglosky, whose grandmother was Terry’s aunt, says…

Detectives looking into the unsolved killing of Ruth Marie Terry, known for years only as “The Lady of the Dunes,” are focusing on the woman’s relationships — including her last husband, a man who had once drawn FBI scrutiny in another killing, sources told the NBC10 Boston Investigators.

Ruth Marie Terry has been identified nearly 50 years after she was found dead on Cape Cod, east of Race Point Ranger Station on July 26, 1974.

After an investigation that spanned five states and lasted over four decades, a man from Queens has pleaded guilty to the murder of a WWI veteran who was killed and buried in a backyard back in 1976.

A family finally has some answers about what happened to a 17-year-old girl who went missing from Northern Virginia nearly 50 years ago.

St. Louis-area prosecutors say a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing a man in 1995 has confessed to strangling four women five years earlier. Prosecutors from Lincoln, St. Charles and St. Louis counties, which was where the victims’ bodies were found, said Monday that Gary Muehlberg, a 73-year-old inmate at the Potosi Correctional Center in southeastern Missouri, confessed...

A Colorado man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold case slayings of two women whose bodies were found near the mountain resort town of Breckenridge in 1982. Alan Lee Phillips, 71, was arrested last year in the mountain hamlet of Dumont, west of Denver, after local, state and federal authorities using DNA evidence identified…

A 49-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in connection with multiple sexual assaults between 2001 and 2008, according to the Division of Criminal Justice. Officials said Angelo Alleano, of Vernon, was sentenced on four counts of sexual assault Friday. He’ll also be required to register as a sex offender. Investigators said the break in the case…

A 75-year-old resident of Hawaii has been arrested and charged in the rape and stabbing death of a 15-year-old Palo Alto girl in 1982, authorities announced Tuesday.

Investigators have confirmed that remains unearthed in a Florida junk yard 41 years ago match a missing teenager, the victim of a serial killer now imprisoned for life in California, sheriff’s officials said.

Richard Cottingham has claimed to be responsible for up to 100 murders. Prosecutors say Diane Cusick was one of them.

More than 30 years after a woman was murdered in Broward County, prosecutors say new DNA testing implicates a man who was found not guilty in the killing. Robert Earl Hayes went to trial twice on a first-degree murder charge in the Feb. 20, 1990, killing of Pamela Albertson, a horse groomer at the Pompano Beach race track. The first…

A longtime retired truck driver, Douglas Thomas, was charged with the 1993 murder of Sherri Herrera by the Riverside County District Attorney’s office. He was currently in custody in Texas awaiting prosecution in another woman’s 1992 slaying.

Investigators announced a baby girl, known as “Baby Holly” has been found “alive and well” 40 years after her parent’s remains were found in Texas.

A baby girl who went missing four decades ago after her parents were found slain in Texas has finally been found and is “alive and well,” investigators say.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office has identified and charged the man they say was behind several sexual assaults in the county dating back nearly 40 years.

A retired Massachusetts Department of Corrections employee has been arrested in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Melissa Tremblay nearly 35 years ago in Lawrence. Marvin “Skip” McClendon Jr., 74, of Breman, Alabama, was arrested Tuesday night in Alabama, Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett announced at a press conference Wednesday morning. He was charged as a fugitive from justice and…

Fairfax County police arrested and charged an Ashburn, Virginia, man with the 1987 abduction and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. William Clark, 59, was charged for the alleged crime that began outside a radio station. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer. The arrest 35 years after the assault was made possible through advancements in DNA and…

The break in a decades-old cold case came from a lucky break by out-of-state police. Law enforcement officials will not discuss how they solved the case, but the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned it started with Oklahoma police finding a private journal with a confession to a crime nearly 1,500 miles away.