An arrest has been made in the 1999 slaying of a Georgia woman whose dismembered remains were discovered months after her reported disappearance. Sources told WSB-TV that Christopher Wolfenbarger was jailed Wednesday for murdering his wife, Melissa Wolfenbarger. Atlanta police listed her date of death as April 29, 1999. Melissa Wolfenbarger vanished after calling her …
New DNA procedures have cracked a 25-year-old murder of a Florida woman, leading to the arrest of her long-time boyfriend. The Sanford Police Department said that Gary Durrance, 73, has been charged with second degree homicide in the 1999 murder of Sherry Holtz, WKMG reported. Holtz was 50 when she was last seen on December …
The family of a 22-year-old murdered Atlanta woman hopes a new billboard will help police find the person who killed her. In July 1990, a maintenance worker discovered Princella Eppe shot dead inside her apartment at The Earle on North Highland Avenue, according to AJC. She was found deceased after she failed to show for …
Police in Arizona have arrested a man for the murder of a 15-year-old girl 20 years ago. Phoenix Police said they arrested Sergio Francisco Reyes, now 37, for the murder of Elena Lasswell on July 10, 2004, KSAZ reported. Police were called to a a home in northwest Phoenix that day where Lasswell was found. …
Family members of a missing Ohio woman are hoping for answers, more than 23 years after she left on a trip with her boyfriend and never returned. According to the Union County Sheriff’s Office, Patricia “Patti”Adkins left her job at Honda of America Manufacturing plant in Marysville on June 29, 2001, for a secret vacation …
The use of public genealogy database has resulted in an indictment in New York for a Florida man in connections with his uncle’s murder. Fox News reports that Rosario Prestigiacomo, 64 was found stabbed 16 times and beaten with a shovel before he died in his Queens home in 2009. The case remained unsolved until …
Despite over 25 years of intensive investigation, the disappearance of a 12-year-old New Jersey girl remains a mystery to her family and law enforcement. When she disappeared on December 16, 1996, Celina Mays was nine months pregnant. She insisted on keeping the father’s identity secret, leading some family members to speculate that she may have …
Georgia investigators announced Thursday that they had arrested a man in the 2001 murder of a University of Georgia law student who was found dead in her apartment after a fire there. Edrick Lamont Faust, now 48, has been charged with murder, two counts of felony murder, aggravated assault, concealing the death of another, possession …
Police in New York have identified the remains of “Midtown Jane Doe,” found encased in concrete at a former Hell’s Kitchen hotspot two decades ago, thanks to a boost involving DNA from a victim of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The skeleton was found by construction workers in February 2003 in the basement of a building …
CrimeOnline’s “Zone 7” host, Sheryl McCollum, brought a Georgia cold case to New York during the sophomore year of the highly acclaimed Hamptons Whodunit Festival in East Hampton Village. “No tip is too small,” McCollum said during her distinguished “Crime and Wine” session on April 13. She presented the case of Melisa Wolfenberger to a …
The father of a 14-year-old Alabama girl reported missing nearly 12 years ago has been charged with her death. Mobile Police Cpl. Katrina Frazier said a Mobile County grand jury indicted Demetric Hooper on murder charges in the death of Brittany Robinson, AL.com reported. Hooper is in jail in Oklahoma City on unrelated charges but …
Phoenix police say they have arrested a 51-year-old woman in the case of a newborn baby girl left in a restroom at Sky Harbor International Airport 18 years ago. Annie Anderson admitted she was the baby’s mother to investigators who questioned her in Washington state, where she now lives, KNXV reported. The baby, dubbed “Baby …
