Cold Cases

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

Skeletal remains found nearly 40 years ago have been identified as those of a guitarist who once played with the R&B group The O'Jays and also co-wrote a few of their songs, investigators said. Authorities used DNA and genealogical research to identify the remains of Frank "Frankie" Little Jr., which were found in a garbage bag in a wooded area behind a business in Twinsburg in 1982. More

December 14, 2021

A jury that heard the murder case against a former Pasco police officer in the 1986 killing of Ruby Doss failed to reach a verdict. More

December 13, 2021

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana prison inmate serving a 100-year sentence for killing his wife in 1983 has confessed to strangling, sexually assaulting and dismembering a 19-year-old Helena woman 15 years earlier, authorities said Friday. Courtney Brooke Atlas, 79, confessed to killing Pamela Ann Dorrington, who disappeared in […] More

December 3, 2021

Ralph Williams was arrested Monday in Jacksonville and charged with the death of Carla Lowe, whose beaten body was found Nov. 13, 1983. More

December 1, 2021

A judge on Monday officially exonerated four young African American men of the false accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago. More

November 23, 2021

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a request by Steven Avery to review his conviction, a case that became the focus of a popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer.” More

November 18, 2021

Two men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X are set to be cleared after more than half a century. More

November 17, 2021

Judge Bruce Schroeder called some coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse case “frightening.” More

November 17, 2021

A mother searches for answers almost two decades after her daughter and daughter's boyfriend were found shot to death in the back of a pick-up truck they took camping about an hour north of Phoenix. More

November 15, 2021

Judge refused to let British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell home detention citing charges alleging Maxwell recruited TEEN girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse and her ability to flee. More

November 9, 2021

Kevin Strickland - Kansas City man who has been jailed for more than 40 years for a triple murder - denied having anything to do with the crime. More

November 8, 2021

Jurors started deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged with murder in the death of a 12-year-old Colorado girl who disappeared in 1984. More

November 2, 2021

Millionaire Robert Durst was indicted for the murder of his first wife, Kathie Durst, who disappeared in 1982. More

November 1, 2021

Barry Morphew is accused of murdering his wife, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew, in 2020. Her body has not been found. More

November 1, 2021

Former Idaho gubernatorial candidate on trial in 1984 killing of 12-year-old Colorado girl testified he did not know the girl or her family before she vanished and denied being involved. More

October 29, 2021

On April 4, 1991, a town sanitation worker found a baby boy's remains in a trash can rack on East Tides Drive. More

October 27, 2021

A local prosecutor has filed a motion to clear the names of four young African American men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago in what is considered one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Jim Crow-era Florida. More

October 26, 2021

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — When the discovery of more than two dozen bodies stashed under John Wayne Gacy’s house near Chicago was making headlines all over the world in the late 1970s, Francis Wayne Alexander’s family in North Carolina didn’t think much of it. The way they saw it, Alexander had […] More

October 25, 2021

Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst has been charged in suburban New York City with the death of his former wife, Kathie Durst. More

October 22, 2021

New York prosecutors have gone to a grand jury seeking to indict millionaire Robert Durst for the death of his former wife Kathie. More

October 19, 2021

A Utah laboratory will examine DNA evidence from a string of killings committed in Atlanta during the 1970s and 1980s. More

October 19, 2021

Robert Durst was hospitalized after contracting COVID-19, days after he was sentenced in a two-decade-old murder case. More

October 17, 2021

Jonelle Matthews went missing on Dec. 20, 1984, shortly after performing in a Christmas concert with the Franklin Middle School Honor Choir in Greeley. More

October 14, 2021

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate on trial in the 1984 killing of a 12-year-old Colorado girl wasn’t even remotely considered a suspect to law enforcement until his obsession with the crime and incessant visits to talk with police about it provided clues that turned […] More

October 13, 2021

Robert DuBoise was freed from prison in August 2020 after long-shelved, untested DNA evidence from a rape kit proved he was innocent. More

October 12, 2021

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday took the rare step of ordering a rehearing in the 2016 murder conviction of Michelle Lodzinski. More

October 7, 2021

Jesse Johnson was accused of stabbing Harriet Thompson, a 28-year-old Black nurse’s aide, to death in her Salem home in 1998. More

October 7, 2021

Three men who were convicted of killing a woman in West Virginia 19 years ago were cleared of charges in the case after new DNA evidence was presented. More

October 6, 2021