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 …
The suspected killer, Terry Peder Rasmussen, died in 2010 while serving a prison sentence for his wife’s murder
Authorities in Florida say a man has been arrested on suspicion of committing a brutal murder more than three decades ago. According to ABC News, 50-year-old Danny Lynn Emitt was living in Knoxville, Tennessee, when police arrested him for the July 1986 murder of 38-year-old Eveline Aguilar. The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office in Florida announced …
The father of a boy found dead on the side of a highway in September 1998 was criminally charged Monday, months after he allegedly confessed to his son’s unsolved murder. WRAL reported that an Orange County grand jury indicted John Russell Whitt, 57, on charges of murder and concealing a death in connection with the …
A Maryland man was charged last week for the 1985 murder of his wife, who was stabbed to death in what authorities long believed was a home burglary gone wrong. From the Baltimore Sun, Karen Norton, 23, had come home from work at JCPenney at 6:45 p.m. on December 17, 1985, when she was fatally …
