Florida authorities have reportedly arrested a suspect in the 2002 stabbing death of a 15-year-old girl who was found dead by her mother and sisters. Farrah Carter was killed at her Miramar home, which had no sign of a break-in. Police initially did not know the identity of her attacker, who had been cut during …
Through interviews, police documents, and forensic evidence, ‘Finding Kendrick Johnson’ illustrates how a 17-year-old’s disappearance and death sparked years’ worth of investigations, controversies, and a possible cover-up.
A California man who spent nearly four decades in prison for two murders he did not commit has offered a $50,000 reward for evidence leading to the conviction of the real killers. Craig Coley, now 74, was convicted in 1980 of raping and killing his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Rhonda Wicht, and smothering her 4-year-old son Donnie …
A Missouri woman was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly fatally shooting her boyfriend in 2004. Alice Weiss, 65, is accused of shooting James Summers, 47, in the head and back with a .22-caliber handgun. Summers was found deceased in the driveway of his Dittmer home, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Authorities have not said …
A Georgia man who was freed last year after spending more than 20 years in prison for a couple’s 1985 murder had the charges against him formally dropped on Monday. While Dennis Perry, 59, was released last July — after DNA linked another suspect to the shooting deaths of deacon Harold and Thelma Swain — …
Advancements in DNA testing may bring Minnesota police closer to identifying three babies who were found dead in the same river between 1999 and 2007. Retired Goodhue County investigator Glen Barringer told the Post Bulletin that in the past six months, forensic testing has provided them leads in at least one of the cases involving …
A decades-old cold case in connection with a young girl brutally raped and killed will be getting another look. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 14-year-old Nacole Smith took a wooded shortcut on Childress Drive in northwest Atlanta on June 7, 1995, which ultimately proved to be fatal. A killer lying in wait snatched the girl, then …
Julie Ann Hanson was just 15 years old when her body was discovered in a Naperville, Illinois, cornfield on July 8, 1972. She had been stabbed 36 times and investigators believe she was also sexually assaulted. Nearly 49 years passed without an arrest – until this week. Authorities on Wednesday charged 76-year-old Barry Lee Whelpley …
On Thursday, Massachusetts authorities named a person of interest in the unsolved 2000 abduction and slaying of a 16-year-old girl. According to the Boston Globe, Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said new information led them to investigate Francis Sumner Sr. in connection with Molly Bish’s murder. Early declined to say what information led them …
Friends of a missing Pennsylvania woman gathered for a vigil this month, four years after the wife and mother disappeared. The gathering was held near the Chester Valley Trail parking lot, where Anna Maciejewska’s car was found a month after her husband, Allen Gould, reported her missing, WPVI reported. Police said Gould reported Maciejewska, 44, …
A federal medical examiner ruled the death of a Kansas man whose body was discovered in a creek in 2004 a homicide, the FBI announced last week. Acting U.S. Attorney Duston Slinkard said in a statement that the examination confirmed Alonzo Brooks’ death was not accidental. The latest autopsy noted that injuries on Brooks’ body …
Colorado investigators used DNA from a water bottle used during a cross-country flight to nab a suspect in a decades old murder. Roger Dean, then 51, was shot and killed at his home on November 21, 1985, when a masked intruder entered his house and forced him to tie up his wife, according to 9 …
