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 …
The brutal murder of a Maine teenager 43 years ago remains unsolved, but the case is getting renewed attention thanks to a documentary in production, the Bangor Daily News reports. Mary Ellen Tanner, 18, was found dead on July 9, 1978, at the end of a runway in rural Maine by a pilot who had spotted …
Julie Ann Hanson was just 15 years old when her body was discovered in a Naperville, Illinois, cornfield on July 8, 1972. She had been stabbed 36 times and investigators believe she was also sexually assaulted. Nearly 49 years passed without an arrest – until this week. Authorities on Wednesday charged 76-year-old Barry Lee Whelpley …
A California man has been arrested for allegedly murdering his wife, whose legs were found in a dumpster 17 years ago but were not identified until now, KSWB-TV reports. Investigators say they cracked the case using the same DNA technology that has led to solving other cold cases around the country. In October 2003, a pair …
Authorities in California have searched a search warrant at a home connected to the 1996 disappearance and presumed murder of Kristin Smart. According to CBS News, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that investigators will embark on an expected two-day search at the home of Ruben Flores in Arroyo Grande, …
A 21-year-old inexplicably disappeared from her Georgia home she shared with her husband and two children in 1998. Years later, her case remains unsolved but her family vows to never give up until an arrest is made. When Melissa Wolfenbarger disappeared in November 1998, her husband, Christopher Wolfenberger, apparently didn’t report her missing. Her mother, …
On Wednesday, an Alabama man reportedly called the police and confessed to fatally shooting someone 25 years earlier. AL.com reported that Johnny Whited, 53, subsequently met with Decatur investigators at the crime scene and provided information about Christopher Dailey’s unsolved murder that corresponded with their evidence. Authorities believe Whited shot Dailey, 26, to death on …
Authorities in Massachusetts are taking a new look at a cold-case murder of a Springfield woman who was found dead exactly 20 years ago. As Boston.com reports, Karen Soucie’s landlord entered her residence in November 2000 after noticing that her mail and her car had been untouched for two days. The landlord then found the …
Extensive DNA testing has confirmed that a human skull found in 1986 belongs to a woman who was last seen at a group home a decade earlier, police in Oregon announced Thursday. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that genetic and genealogical investigators identified the partial remains as Wanda Ann Herr, 19. …
Will a mother’s dying wish to know who murdered and dumped her daughter’s naked body near a landfill be answered? It’s no secret that Washington State has been called the breeding ground of serial killers, like Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer. With all of its natural beauty and stunning landscapes, this area of …
A Montana man was booked into jail Thursday for allegedly murdering his stepsister, who was found dead in a car in Iowa in 1999. Matt Kennedy, 52, was charged with the first-degree murder of Kimberly Ratliff, 22. Ratliff was found dead in her car in a parking lot in Council Bluffs; her body was mutilated …
On Tuesday, a trial date was set for a Florida man accused of raping and killing a New York girl in 1984. WHEC reported that Timothy Williams’ trial was scheduled for June 7, 2021. Williams, 56, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Wendy Jerome, 14, who was found beaten and raped in an alcove behind …
