A decades-old cold case in connection with a young girl brutally raped and killed will be getting another look. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 14-year-old Nacole Smith took a wooded shortcut on Childress Drive in northwest Atlanta on June 7, 1995, which ultimately proved to be fatal. A killer lying in wait snatched the girl, then …
A Minnesota man is facing murder charges 11 years after he claimed a home intruder killed his wife. As ABC News reports, St. Paul police announced in a press conference Thursday that 38-year-old Nicholas James Firkus had been arrested and charged second-degree intentional murder in the death of his wife, Heidi Firkus, who was fatally …
Authorities in Colorado are offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the cold-case murder of two teenagers who were fatally shot over twenty years ago. As CBS4 reports, Nicholas Kunselman and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell were gunned down in a Subway sandwich shop where 15-year-old Kunselman worked in Littleton, Colorado, on February 14, …
Connecticut authorities have made an arrest in connection with the 2004 death of a teen girl in Waterford. Waterbury Republican American reports that authorities found the body of 16-year-old Jessica Rose Keyworth in June 2004, on the stairwell of a multi-unit apartment building off of Pearl Street. According to an autopsy, the teen had been …
A North Carolina man killed his wife in their previous Florida home over 20 years ago, then buried her in the backyard. He thought he’d gotten away with murder, until his son grew up and vowed to get justice for his mother. A jury convicted Michael Haim, 52, of second-degree murder last month. On Tuesday, …
Newly-developed DNA technology has helped solve two Mississippi murders that were unsolvable for three decades. Investigators had few leads in the Labor Day murders of two elderly women in Starkville, Mississippi. But now Michael DeVaughn, 51, is jailed on capital murder and sexual battery charges in connection with the 1990 murders of Betty Jones, 65, and …
Six years after college student Faith Hedgepeth’s naked body was found beaten to death in her University of North Carolina apartment, no one has been charged. Nancy Grace examines the cold case with a panel including New York psychiatrist Dr. Judith Fiona Joseph, South Carolina medical examiner Dr. Michelle Dupre — author of Homicide Investigation …
It’s been 14 years since she last saw her teen daughter alive, but an Oklahoma mother is on a mission to find the killer and to help change laws. Next month marks the 14th year since 18-year-old Brittany Phillips was raped and killed inside her Tulsa apartment. The young college student, described as a sweet, …
An Atlanta cold case expert and her team have taken on an unsolved case that left a small town community in fear, and a family devastated and searching for answers. Sheryl McCollum, a crime scene investigator and the director of Atlanta’s Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, spoke exclusively with CrimeOnline after she took on the case …
Authorities are testing a hunk of concrete found in a Pennsylvania home that they hope will solve the mystery of a 1989 cold case involving a woman who vanished without a trace. FOX News reports that Sunbury Police Chief Tim Miller announced that forensic experts are testing the concrete slab to determine if it holds …
Netflix’s new documentary series is like ‘Making a Murder’ meets ‘Spotlight,” with amateur sleuths as the driving force
