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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

BALTIMORE COUNTY (Scripps News Baltimore) — Baltimore County Detectives are still working to solve the 2009 homicide of Daniel Ho Coverston. These detectives are interested in hearing from people who frequently visited the area near the Alameda Shopping Center where a payphone was located.   They think the person who made the call from that […] More

May 23, 2022

Lucille Hultgren’s killing was the only cold case in the town of 25,000 people 30 miles south of Sacramento, authorities said. More

May 18, 2022

It's a name and face most of Milwaukee still remembers, 7-year-old Alexis Patterson. This week marks 20 years since she's gone missing. More

May 2, 2022

The killing of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey captured worldwide attention after her body was found on Dec. 26, 1996 in her Boulder home. More

May 2, 2022

An Ohio woman accused of putting her newborn baby, umbilical cord still attached, in a garbage bag and leaving it in the woods in 1993 has been found guilty of murder. More

April 6, 2022

Indiana State Police has identified the man behind the "I-65 Killer," also known as the "Days Inn Killer." More

April 5, 2022

Just after midnight on Jan. 31, 1994, Independence Police found 26-year-old Diana Ault brutally murdered, her two young children nearby. More

March 29, 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

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

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

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

February 28, 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

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

A breakthrough in the multi-year investigation into the case of a missing Baltimore woman. On Thursday morning, the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office announced the arrest of Michael Robertson in connection to the disappearance of Akia Eggleston. It was May 3, 2017 when Eggleston was last seen or heard from. More

February 3, 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

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

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

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