DNA leads to arrest in unsolved 2010 slaying of bookseller found strangled & beaten in home: Police
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The slain woman’s family had offered a $100,000 reward for information
Cold Cases
October 11, 2020
Florida man kills boyfriend, sets fire on his genitals: Cops
Detectives in the Florida Keys say they’ve solved an eight-year-old cold case, charging 54-year-old Hugh Timothy Blanton with the murder of Ronald Silvia, 65, in 2012. Monroe County investigators say that Blanton and Silvia were lovers and that Blanton was upset because Silvia was showing a photo of his genitals around the campground where they …
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October 9, 2020
Incredible facial reconstruction IDs mom, 30, who disappeared in 1981, as victim of evil serial killer Samuel Little
Remains found in north Georgia nearly 40 years ago have been identified and linked to Samuel Little, described by the FBI as “the most prolific serial killer in US history.” The 30-year-old woman found in Dade County on September 28, 1981, was Patricia Parker, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced. Little, 80, is a suspect …
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September 26, 2020
Nancy Grace looks at Wisconsin cold case solved with genetic genealogy in new series
A new syndicated series from CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace debuts next month, focusing on how new technologies — DNA profiling, genetic genealogy, and familial searches — are helping bring closure to cold cases. “Bloodline Detectives” debuts on October 2. Its second episode, “Murder in the Snow,” takes on the 1984 murder of Wisconsin teenager Traci Hammerberg, …
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August 14, 2020
Alabama man charged in 1999 cold case murders of his mother and sister
A 42-year-old Alabama man was arrested this week for the murders of his mother and sister 21 years ago, AL.com reported. Joe Daniel Stallions is being held without bond in Coosa County for the shotgun deaths of Bobbi Ingram, 38, and his sister, Jodi Stallions, 17, on January 12, 1999. Both were shot in the …
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July 27, 2020
Boyfriend charged with murdering pregnant college student who vanished in 2015: Reports
Witnesses reportedly told cops that the suspect confessed to choking his pregnant girlfriend and stabbing her in the temple
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July 22, 2020
FBI exhumes Alonzo Brooks’ body after ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ episode on suspicious death of young man found in a lake
The FBI is also offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the suspicious death
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June 19, 2020
‘She has a name now’: Bones found on side of road identified 30 years later as missing teen, but mystery still surrounds unexplained death
Human remains found on the side of a Texas road in 1990 were recently identified as a woman who hadn’t been seen or heard from for three decades. KTRK reported that Manvel police confirmed the bones found off County Road 101 in September 1990 belong to Julie Gwenn Davis. Despite their announcement, it remains a …
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June 17, 2020
DNA, water samples lead to identity of murder victim found in park 4 years ago
Bones found in a western Ohio state park in 2016 have been linked to a young man reported missing by his parents a year earlier, WANE reports. The Mercer County Sheriff’s Office said the remains found in Grand Lake St Marys State Park by a woman walking her dog in January 2016 belonged to Ryan …
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May 30, 2020
Cold Case: DNA solves 50-year-old Colorado rape and murder
DNA evidence has solved the case of a 23-year-old newlywed whose body was found bound, strangled, sexually assaulted, and shot just off a Colorado highway in 1970. Mother of two Betty Lee Jones was last seen on March 8, 1970, after a days-long argument with her husband of nine days, Robert Ray Jones. Robert Jones …
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May 26, 2020
Chuckie Mauk: $100K reward for information to help crack case of Little League boy shot dead after buying candy from store
In 1986, 13-year-old Chuckie Mauk was shot in the back of the head after walking out of a Georgia convenience store to buy candy. Childhood friends never forgot about the case; one is even offering $100,000 for information that leads to a conviction in the case. As CrimeOnline previously reported, witnesses in the middle Georgia …
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May 23, 2020
Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller files suit against Galveston County for mishandling daughter’s remains – again
Tim Miller is angry. The founder of Texas EquuSearch search and recovery has filed suit against Galveston County over handling of his daughter’s remains — for the second time. Laura Miller, 16, was the youngest of four females found dead in what law enforcement dubbed “the Killing Fields” — a rural field in League City …