Cold Cases

The family of Yolanda Bindics is holding out hope that her killer will be caught and brought to justice, now 18 years after she was last seen alive. More

August 11, 2022

Court records show a motion to vacate the conviction of Cedric L. Dent, 47, in the shooting death of Anthony Milton was granted by a judge and the district attorney's office agreed not to continue prosecuting the case. The shooting happened outside a New Orleans supermarket. More

August 8, 2022

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Scripps News Tallahassee) — A man who allegedly was involved in a murder case that occurred more than 25 years ago has been formally charged by the state of Florida. According to a grand jury document from the Leon County Clerk and Comptroller’s Office filed Thursday, Alan Lefferts was formally charged with first-degree […] More

August 5, 2022

Eyewitnesses who saw Kristin Smart at a party the night she disappeared took the stand Wednesday in the trials of Paul Flores and Ruben Flores. More

August 4, 2022

Ten years after a man was found shot to death inside a Nashville apartment, his killer remains on the run. More

August 2, 2022

Thirty-seven years later, authorities are still trying to identify the remains of some of their victims. More

August 1, 2022

SALINAS, Calif. (Scripps News San Luis Obispo) – More witnesses were expected to take the stand Tuesday morning in the case against Paul and Ruben Flores, but that didn’t happen. Shortly after Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jennifer O’Keefe took her seat in the courtroom, she announced the trial would be postponed until next Monday. […] More

July 27, 2022

A 76-year-old man suspected of a 2021 rape has been arrested in the killings of two women that had been unsolved for decades, authorities said. More

July 26, 2022

Barry Morphew has pleaded guilty to forgery for casting his missing wife's 2020 election ballot for then-President Donald Trump. More

July 22, 2022

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. More

July 22, 2022

Some parents wept as prosecutor Mike Satz described in his opening statement how Cruz killed their children at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. More

July 18, 2022

Teresa Ann Bailey Black is charged with felony murder, cruelty to children, aggravated assault and concealing the death of another in the death of her 6-year-old son, William DaShawn Hamilton. More

July 13, 2022

Seven years after a man was shot and killed in the driveway of his Tennessee home, his killer remains on the run, and his family is still waiting for justice. More

July 13, 2022

Jury selection for Ruben Flores, charged as an accessory in Kristin’s 1996 disappearance, got underway Monday. More

July 12, 2022

A Cuyahoga County judge ruled Cleveland man Charles Jackson was wrongfully imprisoned after he spent over 27 years in prison before his murder conviction was dismissed in 2019. More

July 11, 2022

Robert John Lanoue, 70, was charged in the 1982 killing of 5-year-old Anne Pham, who disappeared while walking to kindergarten. More

July 11, 2022

William Reece, who was already sentenced to death for a cold-case killing in Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to murder in the deaths of three girls whose disappearances in Texas also went unsolved for decades. More

June 29, 2022

Jury questioning was back in session Monday for the dual jury trial of Paul and Ruben Flores, the men charged in connection with the 1996 murder of Kristin Smart. More

June 28, 2022

Long Island, New York authorities linked Diane Cusick’s 1968 death to so-called “Torso Killer” Richard Cottingham, who was already convicted in 11 other killings. More

June 22, 2022

A Milwaukee man is facing charges for a murder in Indiana in 1991 after prosecutors say he stabbed the victim multiple times in his apartment. More

June 22, 2022

CONCORD, N.H. (Court TV) — The search for five-year-old Harmony Montgomery, who’s been missing since 2019, led to a frenzy of FBI and local law enforcement back to the New Hampshire home of the child’s father and stepmother, Adam and Kayla Montgomery Tuesday. The couple has been jailed since January, after being formally indicted on […] More

June 14, 2022

The mystery behind who brutally killed the girl's parents more than 40 years ago remains unsolved and has Texas authorities seeking the public's help. More

June 10, 2022

An Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. More

June 8, 2022

"It's been four years. Nobody has said anything," Sharie Harris said about the 2018 murder of her son Tahjmere Hopkins. "I don't understand how nobody saw nothing." More

June 7, 2022

DENVER (Scripps News Denver) — A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison in connection to the 1998 murder of a woman found on Navajo tribal grounds, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. On June 30, 1998, 47-year-old Bonny Baker was reported missing. Her boyfriend, Crespin Nene-Perez, killed her and left her body […] More

June 6, 2022

Palm Beach County detectives identified teen girl Susan Poole, whose skeletal remains were discovered tied to a tree in 1974. More

June 2, 2022

Alexander Torres, a California man who spent 21 years in prison for a gang murder he said he didn't commit, has been declared factually innocent by a judge. More

June 1, 2022

MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. (Scripps News San Luis Obispo) — Opening statements in the Kristin Smart murder trial are set to take place in July. Paul and Ruben Flores have been awaiting trial since a judge last September ruled to move forward with the charges against them. Paul is facing a single count of murder in […] More

June 1, 2022

SALT LAKE CITY (Scripps News Salt Lake City) — After nearly half a century, the Salt Lake City Police Department were able to finally solve a cold case murder. The department announced Thursday it had closed the homicide case involving the death of 39-year-old James Bednarik in 1974. Police said the suspect, 75-year-old George B. […] More

May 26, 2022

By: Erin Miller NORFOLK, Va. (WTKR) – For 22 years, Alondo Adam’s family has been left without answers. They don’t know who killed him, in his Norfolk home or why, but now his case has been re-opened.   “Whoa. Londo was funny. lovable. He loved his family,” said Shannon Bishop Burrus, Alondo’s older sister, as she […] More

May 26, 2022