Police in California are closer to solving a cold case mystery after positively identifying the charred remains of a woman who was found in a burning dumpster more than 18 years earlier. Citing police, The Sacramento Bee reported that Perrean Gray, 20, was the woman firefighters found dead in a dumpster on June 29, 2001. …
A 70-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with the brutal murder of a Virginia woman decades ago, Mlive.com reports. Authorities in Hamilton, Michigan, detained Dennis Lee Bowman on suspicion of killing Kathleen O’Brien Doyle in 1980 in Norfolk, Virginia. Investigators from local, state, and federal agencies descended on Bowman’s rural Michigan property, where they …
Police arrested a 77-year-old man in north Georgia after Kentucky detectives linked his fingerprints to a 41-year-old rape case, WCPO reported. Michael Dean Tate is in jail in Union County, Georgia, awaiting extradition to Kentucky, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. According to a release from the Commonwealth’s Attorney in Kentucky, a woman in her 20s reported …
A man suspected of raping and killing a D.C. intern in 1998 and raping nine other women over seven years in the 1990s has been arrested in South Carolina, the FBI and Washington, D.C., area police said Thursday.. Giles Daniel Warrick, 60, was taken into custody Tuesday near Conway, South Carolina, on a fugitive warrant, …
James Krauseneck Jr. appeared in court on Friday to answer a grand jury indictment that accused him of burying an ax into his wife’s head as she slept on February 19, 1982. Krauseneck, now 67 and retired in Arizona, appeared in New York State Supreme Court in Rochester with his daughter Sara, who, at 3 …
A detailed tip to a Facebook page that regularly posts about unsolved crimes led North Carolina deputies to the body of a woman missing for 15 years — and to a suspect they’ve now charged with murder. Deborah Deans, 29, was last seen at the home she shared with Kimberly Hancock in Spring Hope, North …
Authorities in Wisconsin have identified a suspect in the 35-year-old cold case rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman who died in 1984. According to NBC News, the Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday that investigators had identified Philip Cross as the suspect in the December 1984 murder of Traci Hammerberg of Saukville, who …
A cold case investigator in Louisiana’s Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office picked up a 25-year-old case and found a DNA match for a newborn found dead in a car wash trash drum in 1994. Sonia Charles, 50, was arrested Wednesday and charged with first degree murder. Officials say she left Baby Jane Doe in a trash …
A former resident of a south Florida gated community helped solve a missing persons cold case with the help of Google Earth. The unidentified former resident called a current resident, Barry Fay, after he spotted what looked like a car submerged in a retention pond during a Google Earth search of his old neighborhood. Fay, …
It’s been 24 years since a young teen walking to school was raped and killed, but a fresh look at an updated sketch of the killer can hopefully bring justice for a grieving family. On the morning of June 7, 1995, Nacole Smith, 14, took a shortcut through the woods on Childress Drive in northwest …
It’s been said that the bond of twins can never be broken, and a Maryland sister who lost her twin over 20 years ago continues to exemplify the statement. She has dedicated her life to finding justice for her best friend, a twin sister senselessly shot to death while sitting alone inside her car. “We …
A decade after two Virginia Tech students were gunned down in the gravel parking lot of the Caldwell Fields recreation area in the Jefferson National Forest, authorities hope new technology and an increased reward will finally help solve the case. At a press conference last week, it was announced that ten agencies, led by Virginia …
