Around three weeks after the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children created a forensic image of what a deceased boy probably looked like before authorities found his remains in Georgia, a retired teacher spotted him on the news. She said she may have had the child in one of her classes. Atlanta’s FOX 5 …
A Minnesota man has been accused of violently stabbing a woman to death decades ago after authorities identified him using DNA from a genealogy website and a messy napkin, the Daily Beast reports. Jerry Westrom, 52, was charged this week in connection with the 1993 homicide of Jeanne Ann “Jeanie” Childs in Minneapolis. Investigators zeroed …
Authorities in Florida say a 60-year-old woman was arrested recently — more than three decades after she allegedly murdered her son in Nevada. According to Fox News, Amy Elizabeth Fleming is accused of killing 3-year-old Francillon Pierre in 1986 before reporting him missing and suggesting his father played a role in the disappearance. In a …
Breakthroughs in forensic technology have led investigators to the identity of a woman whose body was found in California more than 30 years ago. According to ABC News, the identification of Tracey Hobson, who was 20 years old when her remains were found in August 1987, was confirmed through forensic odontology. A study of Hobson’s …
Authorities in Massachusetts announced Tuesday that they know who raped and killed a Harvard University graduate student in her apartment in January 1969. In a statement, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan identified Michael Sumpter, a career criminal who died in 2001, as the person who killed Jane Britton, 23. They said Britton was found beaten to …
Authorities recently confirmed that the remains found along a Tennessee interstate in 1985 are that of a New Hampshire girl who vanished a year earlier—but who wasn’t reported missing until last year. Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald, Manchester Police Chief Carlo Capano, and Tennessee Bureau of Investigations director David Rausch announced in a statement issued to The New …
Investigators in Florida have come closer to solving a 17-year-old murder after a DNA sample run in an genealogy database identified distant relatives of the suspect. The Orlando Sentinel reports that police made an arrest on Friday in the 2001 murder of 25-year-old Christine Framke, a University of Florida student found dead in her apartment …
Authorities in Georgia say genetic testing led to the identification of a suspect in the cold-case death of a 28-year-old woman found dead in her bedroom in 1997. According to ABC News, Jerry Lee was arrested last week on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm during the …
A woman was recently arrested in connection with the 1991 kidnapping of a 19-year-old Georgia woman who remains missing 27 years later. Per The Macon Telegraph, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Melinda McSwain, 46, at Mercer University and charged her with the kidnapping of Sabrina Long. Long was last seen August 14, 1991, at …
An Alabama mother, her husband, and her mother are facing criminal charges after police allegedly found her 13-year-old son chained, stripped naked, and living in a dog crate. Per AL.com, the Autauga County Sheriff’s Office got involved Thursday after an anonymous caller claimed a child living in a Prattville home was being chained and abused. …
At just 18 years old with a promising future ahead of her, a Georgia teen was gunned down inside a friend’s apartment for seemingly no apparent reason. Almost six years later, her family still doesn’t know who killed the beloved teen, but they vow to never stop looking until justice is served. Vanessa “Honey” Malone, …
The Tennessee man who confessed to fatally shooting a woman in 1994 during a botched robbery attempt learned his fate in court this week. According to WREG, Phanhsay Phanivong, then 16, shot Angela Perkins, 23, to death in East Memphis as she drove home from work. The case remained cold until 2014 when an inmate serving …
