Cold Cases

"They took a man who was so full of life, and so much fun," said Glenda Bonds, Patrick Burdine's mother. More

March 22, 2022

A North Dakota woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her roommate more than a decade ago. More

March 18, 2022

On the morning of July 7, 1992, the body of Nona Stamey Cobb was found alongside the northbound lanes of Interstate 77 in Surry County. More

March 18, 2022

Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said the victim had been "barbarically” brutalized over a long period of time. More

March 18, 2022

A judge signed an order Monday mandating that Baltimore police send evidence in the case against Adnan Syed within 15 days to a California crime lab, news outlets reported. More

March 16, 2022

The missing woman — 25-year-old Susan Lund — was connected to a decades-old cold case out of Illinois. More

March 14, 2022

Richmond Police Department Sgt. Kelli Fraze said investigators never bought David Sparks’ story, describing him as “stone cold.” More

March 11, 2022

A North Carolina man has been charged in the shooting death of his ex-wife 12 years ago, authorities announced Thursday. More

March 7, 2022

Advocates have been pushing for Brendan Dassey to be freed but ran out of options in the courts after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal. More

March 7, 2022

Baltimore County Police detectives are still working to solve a murder from 26-years ago. Wednesday marked the anniversary of when 23-year-old Jody LeCornu was found shot to death inside her vehicle in Towson, Maryland. More

March 3, 2022

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WLEX) — A year after the murder of Kobe Persley, his family renews calls for justice. More

March 1, 2022

Who Killed Curtis Walton? The young attorney was gunned down just steps from his Virginia home. More

February 28, 2022

A sheriff's office in South Florida has named a deceased deputy as the only probable suspect in the sexual assault and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1983. Now, cold-case detectives believe he could be responsible for other sexual assault cases across the state. Lora Ann Huizar, 11, was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered by former St. Lucie County Sheriff Deputy James Howard Harrison. More

February 17, 2022

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to life in prison for a killing that went unsolved for more than four decades until a DNA match helped investigators crack the case. Charles Ugvine Coleman pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in the March 1976 death of Elizabeth Ann Howell Wilson before his trial started at the Fairfield County Courthouse More

February 16, 2022

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (Scripps News Colorado Springs) — An affidavit reveals new details about the events that led up to the disappearance of Kara Nichols. According to the affidavit, Paul Nichols reported his daughter missing to Deputy Ayyad with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 14, 2012. He went on to state that […] More

February 10, 2022

A jury in Alaska found a man guilty on Thursday of the killing and rape of a woman at a university that went unsolved for more than two decades. The killing of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1993 flummoxed investigators for years. They linked Steven Downs of Auburn, Maine, to the crime using DNA evidence, and he was arrested in 2019. More

February 10, 2022

Police believe they found the remains of 19-year-old aspiring model, Kara Nichols, nearly 10 years after she went missing. More

February 9, 2022

Audio recordings of a Maine man speaking to police were played Wednesday for jurors hearing murder and rape charges against him in connection with the death of a 20-year-old student in Alaska in 1993. More

February 3, 2022

The murder case against Barry Morphew will move to Fremont County after the court decided he could not receive a fair trial in Chaffee County. More

February 2, 2022

A man who died in 1981 was identified as the suspect in four cold case homicides in the Denver area, authorities announced Friday morning. The women who were killed were Madeleine Furey-Livaudais, 33, Dolores Barajas, 53, Gwendolyn Harris, 27, and Antoinette Parks, 17, More

January 28, 2022

A Philadelphia man freed after 37 years in prison in a case tainted by perjured testimony accused the city of "outrageous police misconduct" in a lawsuit filed Thursday, the same day his 1984 murder case was dismissed. More

January 27, 2022

Investigators have narrowed the window of the disappearance of a New Hampshire girl missing since late 2019 at age 5 to a 13-day period. More

January 24, 2022

Antoinette Parks was found stabbed to death on Jan. 24, 1981. Investigators told her family she had been stabbed 23 times. More

January 24, 2022

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu harshly criticized a Massachusetts court on Tuesday for placing Harmony Montgomery, missing since 2019 at age 5, with her father and stepmother before the state could complete a study of their home. More

January 18, 2022

Last week, Kayla Montgomery was charged on suspicion of obtaining $1,500 in food stamps from December 2019 to June 2021 for Harmony Montgomery. More

January 11, 2022

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police finished their search of the last known residence of Harmony Montgomery on Monday as they investigate the disappearance of the New Hampshire girl, who vanished in 2019 at age 5, but was not reported missing until late last year. Police searched the Manchester property once at end of last year, […] More

January 10, 2022

In an interview with police on New Year's Eve, Kayla Montgomery said she last saw Harmony in November or December 2019. More

January 6, 2022

The father of Harmony Montgomery has been arrested on several charges, including one accusing him of failing to have her in his custody. More

January 5, 2022

Distress calls to law enforcement connected to the investigation into a possible serial killer on Long Island may soon be released. More

January 4, 2022

Twenty-five years after JonBenet Ramsey was killed, police say they are looking at "genetic DNA testing" to see if it can be used to help solve the case. The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family's Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996, bludgeoned and strangled, several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note had been left behind. Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever charged in the case. More

December 21, 2021