A teenage girl found dead, beaten beyond recognition, in a New Jersey cemetery 40 years ago is unknown no more, and her alleged killer has been charged with her death. “Princess Doe,” as the community of Blairstown dubbed the girl in 1982, has rested for decades beneath a tombstone that reads, “Princess Doe. Missing from …
A 1990 hit-and-run left a young woman dead by an interstate service road in Oklahoma City, launching an investigation into a mystery with that took years to piece together. A man named Clarence Marcus Hughes, 41, told Oklahoma police that the dead woman was his wife, 23-year-old Tonya Hughes, and that they had a 2-year-old …
A 53-year-old Oklahoma woman has been arrested for the murder of her newborn son nearly 30 years ago. Baby Doe was found buried in a rural Choctaw County yard on December 8, 1993, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. The medical examiner conducted an autopsy and determined the baby boy was born alive and …
Acting Attorney General Matt Platkin says an investigation into a 2014 cold case, which has been highly researched and publicized by a well-known podcast, is being investigated. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Platkin’s office confirmed the investigation into the case of 72-year-old John Sheridan and his wife, 69-year-old Joyce Sheridan. Both were found dead in …
A Florida man was arrested this week and charged with the murder of a Dallas lawyer who was beaten and then burned alive in 2016. Steven Aubrey had been on law enforcement’s radar from almost the beginning in the death of attorney Ira Tobolowsky. Investigators believe Aubrey was irate because Tobolowsky was representing his mother …
Genetic genealogy has closed the book on another cold case, this one the “I-65 Killer” who raped and murdered three women working as clerks in motels along the interstate corridor in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s. Indiana State Police said Tuesday that Harry Edward Greenwell was responsible for the deaths of Vicki Heath, …
A 35-year-old Michigan murder mystery was solved earlier this year with the help of Western Michigan University criminal justice students participating in the school’s cold case program. Patrick Gilham, 67, was arrested in February and pleaded no contest earlier this month to the murder of Roxanne Wood, a 30-year-old Berrien County woman found dead in …
Long Island investigators have solved a 42-year-old murder case, a 20-year-old secretary who was on her way home from her job in New York City when she was raped and strangled, her body left near the Bay Shore train station. DNA identified Herbert Rice as the likely suspect in the death of Eve Wilkowitz on …
Investigators in North Dakota have made an arrest in the cold case murder of an 18-year-old Minot State University student in 2007. Anita Knutson was found stabbed to death in her home when her father asked for a wellness check because he hadn’t heard from her in a few days, according to KXMB. Investigators found …
On Tuesday, Arizona officials publicly identified a girl whose burned body was found in a desert in 1960. In July 1960, a teacher searching for rocks reportedly found a child’s body in Congress at Sand Wash Creek. The child, who was wearing a buttoned blouse, shorts, cut flip flops, and polish on fingernails and toenails, …
Washington officials announced on Wednesday that they believe they have solved the 1995 slaying of a woman who was found shot and naked in a ditch. DNASolves.com and Kitsap County police said Douglas Krohne would have been 33 when Patricia Barnes, 61, was shot in the head and left in a ditch in Olalla. Acquaintances …
Bones found during the search for a missing Utah mother Susan Cox Powell were apparently not human. Susan’s father, Chuck Cox, announced Thursday that bones found during a search of an abandoned mine at Utah’s West Desert were not his daughter’s, who has been missing since December 2009. The bones appear to be animal bones. …
