Oklahoma sheriff’s deputies were at the site of the former home of the BTK serial killer in Kansas on Tuesday looking for possible leads on unsolved cases that could be related to the convicted killer. Dennis Rader was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences in 2005 after terrorizing Wichita and his home in the suburb …
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri is asking for the public’s assistance to uncover information about a 1991 cold case involving an 11-year-old boy. According to NBC 5, Charles Arlin Henderson was last spotted at around 5 p.m., cycling near his Moscow Mills home in the Fountain N’ Lakes subdivision on July 25, 1991. …
California authorities are taking another look at the case of a missing 4-year-old girl after a former pastor was arrested for killing an 8-year-old girl in Pennsylvania. David Zandstra, 83, was arrested in Georgia and charged with the murder of Gretchen Harrington in Delaware County in 1975. Zandstra was a pastor at the time and …
A retired Georgia pastor has been charged with murder in the death of an 8-year-old girl nearly 50 years ago in Pennsylvania. Investigators say David Zandstra, now 83, confessed to killing Gretchen Harrington in Marple Township on August 15, 1975, KYW reported. Zandstra was a family friend of the Harringtons and pastor of Trinity Christian …
Police in Florida have identified a woman found dead and wrapped in plastic in a steamer trunk in 1969. The “Trunk Lady,” as she became known, is Sylvia June Atherton, who was 41 when she died, according to St. Petersburg Police. According to WBBH, two juveniles saw two men pull up in a pickup truck …
Investigators in Marshall County, Alabama, in the northwest corner of the state announced this week that DNA had helped identify a body found alongside a creek in the county in 1997. The homicide victim has been identified as Jefferey Douglas Kimzey of Santa Barbara, California, who was 20 at the time of his death. The …
Investigators may be nearing a breakthrough in solving the brutal murder of Russell and Shirley Dermond, a Georgia couple found dead near Lake Oconee. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Russell, 88, was discovered beheaded in his central Georgia retirement home in May 2014. Shirley was found 5 miles away murdered and floating in a lake. On …
It’s been nearly 33 years, but police in Alabama hope that new advances in forensic investigation — including DNA — will help them solve a mystery. A 14-year-old boy found a body on September 22, 1990, in a creek bed in Opelika. The young Black man had a gunshot wound to the head, according to …
Investigators were seen searching a California home’s back yard and a nearby park for evidence in the disappearance of a software executive more than two decades earlier. Belmont Police Lt. Pete Lotti told KNTV that FBI agents and local authorities were seeking “to try to bring closure to the case” of Ylva Hagner, 42, who …
Georgia police said they have identified the mother of a newborn baby that was found dead in a basement bathroom at a college dormitory in 1996. According to WSB-TV, the baby boy was discovered in a trash can with his mother’s placenta at Oglethorpe House at the University of Georgia. The baby is believed to …
The rape and murder of a 23-year-old Georgia woman in 1989 has been solved with the help of genealogical DNA. Larry Padgett, 59, was arrested earlier this week in Loogootee, Indiana, where he now lives, for the murder of Mary Louicile Willfong, whose body was found by deer hunters on November 21, 1989, along Johnstonville …
It took nearly 52 years, but Vermont detectives stayed on this case until this week, when they announced they had solved the 1971 murder of 24-year-old school teacher Rita Curran in Burlington. The culprit, Burlington Police said, was William DeRoos, who was 31 at the time of Curran’s murder and lived upstairs with his newlywed …
