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 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 …
One of the New York Police Department’s most frustrating unsolved cases dates back to 1971 and the shooting death of Robert Bolden, an off-duty police officer in Brooklyn. According to the New York Post, the agency has cobbled together a record reward sum of $111,500 in their search for tips that might solve the case. …
A Washington man in custody for the presumed death of a woman missing since 2009 confessed to her murder but has since stepped back on his comments, according to reports. The Olympian reported that Eric Lee Roberts, 53, called 911 Tuesday to confess to the murder of his former neighbor and coworker, Nancy Moyer. Court …
Authorities in the state of Washington say new evidence has surfaced in the cold-case disappearance of a Tenino-area woman. According to The Olympian, Nancy Moyer, who was last seen more than a decade ago in her home, has been presumed dead due to foul play for years. Further evidence was scant, however, and no arrests …
Police credited Oxygen show ‘Cold Justice’ with helping them reinvestigate the decades-old cold case
A former prison employee and college lecturer was arrested Friday in Georgia in connection with three rapes which occurred in California in 1992 and 1994. According to the Davis Enterprise, Mark Jeffrey Manteuffel, 59, was apprehended in Decatur for three attacks in Davis, Sacramento County, and Sacramento. Officials declined to fully divulge how DNA played …
Police in Connecticut announced the arrest of a Maine man in connection with the unsolved 1986 sexual assault and murder of an 11-year-old girl who was found dead after she didn’t return home from school. According to the Connecticut Post, a tactical team arrested Marc Karun, 53, on a fugitive from justice warrant as he …
An Ohio woman was arrested Thursday for the murder of her newborn son, whose partially-dismembered body was reportedly discovered in a wooded area in 1993. Gail Eastwood-Ritchey, 49, allegedly admitted that she gave birth to the boy and left him in a trash bag she abandoned in Geauga County, where animals dismembered the corpse and …
