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A DNA match has solved the strangulation murder of a teenager in southeast Alaska, a case that was cold for 24 years and saw another man acquitted of the crime after confessing, Alaska State Troopers said Tuesday. DNA obtained from Steve Branch, 66, of Austin, Arkansas, at an autopsy matched that of a sample left at the scene where Jessica…

Police made an arrest in connection with the death of a 26 year old woman at the MDC reservoir in 1998 charging a woman with hindering prosecution and interfering with an officer.

Norwalk police are continuing to investigate a murder from 2006 and are now offering a reward for information that leads to the arrest of whoever is responsible. Police said there is a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for murdering Laray “Mookie” Moore. Moore was shot and killed on June 29, 2006,…

Officials say they’ve solved the 1991 murder case of a teenager who was raped and strangled with her bikini top on Valentine’s Day in the Florida Keys.

Walter Ogrod was convicted of killing 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in 1988. But the evidence showed there was no way he could’ve done it.

Police have arrested a 47-year-old man in connection with four burglaries and sexual assaults in Vernon and Manchester between 2001 and 2008 and Vernon police said the suspect is a Manchester firefighter. Investigators said the break in the case came with the help of a grant and a genealogy service. Angelo Alleano Jr. 47, of Vernon, has been charged with four…

Angelo Alleano Jr. 47, of Vernon, has been charged with four counts of sexual assault in the first degree and three counts of burglary in the second degree.

Detectives are struggling to connect with victims through thick masks, and investigators accustomed to wearing plainclothes are digging out their dusty uniforms for patrol duty as the coronavirus pandemic rages

Authorities served another search warrant Wednesday morning at the San Pedro home of a former classmate of Kristin Smart, a California college student who disappeared in 1996.  The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that it served a search warrant at the home of Paul Flores, who is considered a person of interest in Smart’s...

A Florida police department says it solved a 35-year-old homicide by using DNA to find a relative of the alleged killer and then creating a family tree to track him down.

Adam Brundage went missing in 2004. This month, his former roommate admitted to beating him in the head with a baseball bat and burying his body at a Bucks County quarry.

Police have arrested a man they say was involved in dozens of attacks on women in South Florida during the 1980s.

DNA has helped Meriden police solve a 32-year-old mystery and led them to the mother of a newborn baby boy who was found at the base of a tree on Jan. 2, 1988 after dying from exposure. Police located the woman earlier this month and said she admitted to being the baby’s mother and told police that she’d been waiting…

Thirty-two years have passed since an infant boy who was abandoned in a parking lot in Meriden died from exposure and police will be holding a news conference Tuesday on the status of the investigation.

A woman in Virginia has been charged in the death of a newborn baby nearly 17 years after his body was found in a park. A grand jury in the city of Chesapeake indicted Melissa Sue Chrisman, 41, on charges of felony murder and felony child abuse and neglect, The Virginian-Pilot reported. Police spokesman Leo Kosinski declined to identify Chrisman’s…

Detectives solved the 1981 murder of a Florida woman by using advanced DNA testing to discover the suspect was the football coach of one of her sons, police said. The Lakeland Police Department said Joseph Clinton Mills, 58, has been arrested on charges he raped and killed Linda Patterson Slaten, on Sept. 4, 1981, when she was 31. Slaten was…

Nearly four decades after her disappearance, the family of a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, woman finally has closure after her abusive husband admitted to killing her and dumping her body in a river.

A San Francisco murder victim known for 43 years as Jane Doe #40 has been identified by investigators as Judy Gifford, a 14-year-old girl from New Jersey whose aunt kept the same phone number for decades in case her niece tried to call.