Alabama authorities announced on Thursday that they have identified a girl who was found dead in 2012 — a development which led to the arrests of her father and stepmother on Tuesday. WTVM reported that Opelika Jane Doe’s real name is Amore Wiggins. Othram Labs and Astrea Labs obtained DNA from her scalp and hair, …
An Ohio elementary school teacher hopes the 42nd anniversary of her mother’s disappearance will bring answers after she uncovered repressed memories involving the day her mother vanished. On January 7, 1981, Lonene “Lonnie” Rogers vanished during a blizzard in Hayfield Township, Pennsylvania. Although there’s a chance Lonnie may have left voluntarily, her daughter, Alison Morea …
Florida police announced on Thursday that they have arrested the mother of a newborn baby girl whose body was found in the Atlantic Ocean in 2018. In June 2018, an off-duty Boynton Beach firefighter on a charter boat discovered “Baby June’s” body floating near the Boynton Beach Inlet. WTVJ reported that Palm Beach County police …
An Arkansas man remains unaccounted for more than 28 years after he vanished under suspicious circumstances. Jarrod Green, then 20, had plans to meet a man in North Little Rock before he disappeared. KARK reported that Green was from Searcy, and his car was found abandoned in a local Walmart parking lot days after he …
Washington police in Tacoma released the age progression photo of missing tot Teekah Lewis last week “in the hopes of solving one of the area’s oldest” cases of missing children, according to CNN. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Teekah, 2 at the time of her disappearance, vanished from the New Frontier Lanes in Tacoma on January …
Philadelphia police have solved at least one part of a 65-year-old mystery — they have identified a young boy found dead and stuffed into a box in the city in 1957. Investigators used DNA and intricate genealogical sleuthing to uncover the boy’s name, KYW reports, and criminal charges may be filed in his death. Philadelphia …
It’s been five years since Georgia woman Jenna Van Gelderen was last seen and her family hopes a renewed interest in her case will bring answers. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jenna, who was 25 when she disappeared, has been missing since August 19, 2017. Since then, cellphone and debit card activity stopped and no one …
A former deputy attorney general living in Nevada was arrested on Tuesday for the unsolved 1972 slaying of a woman in Hawaii. KRNV reported that Tudor Chirila Jr., 77, was arrested in Reno, Nevada, for fatally stabbing Nancy Anderson, 19, at her apartment in Honolulu half a century earlier. Anderson was found covered in blood …
Ohio police announced on Tuesday that bones discovered last month belong to a woman who vanished in 2017. Youngstown police Chief of Detectives Captain Jason Simon said that someone looking for their dog found the skeletal remains, wrapped in a cloth, in a wooded area of Thorn Hill. The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office assembled the …
Massachusetts prosecutors announced Wednesday that they had secured an indictment charging a 63-year-old inmate with the murder of a 20-year-old woman in Beverly in 1986. Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said that John Carey is currently serving a sentence for the attempted murder of a woman in Hamilton in 2007, The Salem Times reported. Claire …
The rape and murder of an 11-year-old Illinois babysitter has gone unsolved for three decades, but police say there is reason for hope that the perpetrator will be caught, WFLD-TV reports. Holly Staker was babysitting two children on the evening of August 17, 1992, in the Chicago suburb of Waukegan when an intruder entered the …
JonBenet Ramsey would have turned 32 years old today. Her father, John Ramsey, is asking the public to help give his murdered daughter the ultimate gift: justice. Ramsey is seeking signatures in an online petition calling on Colorado authorities to allow for independent DNA analysis of evidence in the case, according to Fox News. The petition, …
