cold case

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….

The story of a killer con man who pretended to be Clark Rockefeller, heir to the famous oil dynasty, is just one of the cases uncovered in the new true crime podcast “Red Collar.” Host Catherine Townsend joined LX News to discuss these cases of white collar criminals-turned-murderers.

Authorities in Hayward on Monday charged 59-year-old David Misch in the cold case kidnapping and killing of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht, who disappeared 32 years ago.

Miami police detectives say they have solved a 45-year-old cold case with the arrest of 68-year-old Hipolito Guzman. The 1975 arrest warrant of the incident alleges that while the victim, Jose Caesar Pacheco, was being stabbed to death, Guzman discouraged witnesses and later served as the getaway driver. “Your honor we are trying to put together whether or not this…

Authorities in Colorado used DNA to identify a man who was found dead by hikers 46 years ago, while his wife remains missing.

Police are hoping new DNA and digital imaging technology can help them solve a nearly 45-year-old killing of a young woman in Davie.

Police said Glen Samuel McCurley was in custody Tuesday in connection with the 1974 murder of Carla Walker, who was 17 years old when she was abducted, held captive and eventually murdered.

Yaser Abdel Said, a Lewisville cab driver wanted in connection with brutal slayings of his two teenage daughters, is in custody in North Texas after 12 years on the run.

Police are still looking for the person who murdered then 28-year-old Evelyn Colon in Norwalk thirty years ago. Police said several persons of interest were identified in the investigation but there are still no firm suspects in the case. On Aug. 23, 1990, at approximately 2:00 a.m., officers received a call from Colon’s 9-year-old daughter that her mother had been…

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…