Cold Cases

Infant girl found facedown, dead in pond 15 years ago may be identified — through same method cops used to find Golden State Killer
Cold Cases

Florida officials are hopeful that DNA technology will finally allow them to identify the infant girl who was found floating facedown in a Gainesville pond on August 21, 2003. Per The Gainesville Sun, the Baby Jane Doe was so decomposed that authorities initially had difficulty determining her race. It was through DNA testing that they ascertained that she …

Alexander Christopher Ewing
Cold Cases
August 11, 2018

Killer accused of bludgeoning family with hammer ID’d in cold cases through DNA evidence

A series of vicious and shocking attacks carried out decades ago have been solved, thanks to DNA evidence. Police in Aurora, Colorado, announced Friday they had identified a suspect in a 34-year-old set of cold cases involving the gruesome murders of a family and grandmother. “This case haunted the officers who responded that night,” Aurora …

Cold Cases
August 10, 2018

Experts exhume ‘girl in the box’ & other children from graves in effort to solve decades-old cold cases

Law enforcement, along with a team of forensic experts, are exhuming bodies from graves in Philadelphia in an attempt to solve decades-old cold cases, some of which violent deaths. ABC reports that a team led by a forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle, are exhuming seven human bodies from the Potter’s Field Cemetery in Philadelphia, then transporting them …

Jacqueline Graham
Cold Cases
May 14, 2018

Three decades later, detectives still haunted by unsolved brutal slaying of college student

More than 30 years after a Texas college student was shot, stabbed, run over, and mutilated, law enforcement is still working to find her killer. KTRK reported that a worker was unloading items behind a sporting goods store on April 8, 1988, when he discovered the bloodied body of Jacqueline Michelle Graham, 19. Authorities said the worker first …

Arthur Ream mugshot
Cold Cases
May 8, 2018

Police: Up to 7 girls could be buried in Michigan woods

MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities excavating woods in southeastern Michigan for the remains of a 12-year-old girl last seen in 1979 also could be looking for the bodies of up to half a dozen others who have been reported missing over the years. Digging resumed Tuesday in Macomb Township, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) …