cold case

Sheriff’s officials say they have discovered the 1974 Pinto a 22-year-old student was driving on his way back to Auburn University from Georgia when he disappeared more than 45 years ago

DNA recovered from the interior of a conch shell thought to have been used as a weapon in the 2001 killing of a Massachusetts woman has led to the indictment on a murder charge of the victim’s half-brother, prosecutors said.

The FBI wouldn’t specifically link the Jimmy Hoffa case to its recent search at the Pulaski Skyway, but it’s right near an old landfill where the former Teamsters boss was rumored to have been buried in a steel drum.

The state Monday announced a $50,000 reward for information in the killing of Kelsey Mazzamaro, who was found dead in a Burlington pond in May 2018.

A 69-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing to death a National City convenience store clerk nearly half a century ago, police said Thursday.

The man accused of kidnapping and killing 17-year-old Western Hills High School junior Carla Walker in 1974 waived his right to a jury trial and changed his plea to guilty Tuesday morning.

Detectives say the 22-year-old Pata was walking from his car toward the stairs at the apartment building on Nov. 7, 2006 when he was shot.

The Norwalk Police Department is offering a reward to anyone with information about a decade-old cold case. This Friday marks the 10th anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Rickita Smalls and 27-year-old Iroquois Alston when they were both shot and killed while sitting in a parked car on Avenue B, according to police. Norwalk Police are currently offering up to…

More than 20 years after a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped and raped by a man in Escondido, an arrest has been made in the heinous case that was once cold, police announced Thursday.

Shoreline municipalities are joining forces to help combat the rise in violence. The newly formed task force held a briefing on Tuesday to discuss the long-term benefits and the importance of working together. Municipal leaders stated that the joint-shooting task force is a “common sense” approach to tackling crime happening in each city and town around the Elm City. The…

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death last week, a prosecutor said Monday. Incriminating admissions Richard Lavigne made in a series of recent interviews while in a medical facility further implicated the longtime suspect in…

The cold case of a missing Delaware County teenage girl is now a homicide investigation as police dig for evidence in the wooded area where they believe she went missing exactly 46 years ago.

San Diego County Sheriff’s Detectives had exhausted all leads to determine whose legs were found in a dumpster in Rancho San Diego in 2003. But two decades later – with the help of public genealogy databases mixed with their own investigative tools – detectives were finally able to crack the case, officials announced Friday.

A New Jersey serial killer known as the “Torso Killer” pleaded guilty Tuesday to two 1974 murders, finally closing the cold-case deaths of teenage friends who had left home for a trip to the mall and never returned. Richard Cottingham, 74, is currently in state prison on a life sentence for other murders. He has claimed he was responsible for up...

Authorities have finally identified two homicide victims who were found in the Southern California desert in 1980 and linked to a man imprisoned for murder in Mississippi.

The 1984 killing of a 59-year-old woman in Pembroke has finally been solved, Massachusetts State Police and the Plymouth District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Virginia Hannon’s alleged killer, Jesse Aylward of Brockton, is dead and was turned in by a friend the day after he died in February 2020 at the age of 58, Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz said….

Thirty-six years have passed since April Grisanti disappeared and Norwalk police are again calling on anyone with information to come forward. Grisanti was last seen at 12:15 a.m. on Feb. 1, 1985 as she was leaving Anthony’s Bar on Main Street in Norwalk. Earlier that night, she had been involved in an argument with her ex-boyfriend, James “Purple” Aaron, police…

Police are offering a reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for shooting and killing a man in Norwalk in 2006. On Sunday, June 11, 2006, officered received 911 calls reporting shots fired at the William Moore Elks Lodge on Lexington Avenue shortly before 2 a.m. When police arrived, they said…

On the 17th anniversary of the disappearance of Maura Murray, her family is still hopeful. “I’m hoping something shakes loose this year,” said her older sister, Julie. Julie’s and Maura’s brother, Kurtis, held a virtual candlelight vigil Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., the last time Maura was seen. “It’s kind of crazy to think it’s 17 years. I’ve spent more...

It’s a case that has kept Fort Lauderdale detectives guessing for decades: Teresa “Bunny” Fittin was last seen on Aug. 1, 1975. At the time of her disappearance, she was 18 years old. Today, she’d be 63, two decades younger than her mother Jocelia Travisano, who is still alive, on oxygen, and desperate to know what happened to her daughter….