Genetic Genealogy Leads to Suspect in 1994 Cold Case Murder
Claire Holman was found dead in her home by a neighbor. On March 21, 1994, a friend and neighbor came to deliver mail to her senior neighbor, Claire “Kay” Holman, in Borrego Springs, San Diego, California. She knocked on the door, but there was no answer, which was odd. She peeked into one of the front windows and saw the home inside ransacked.
Read full storyFugitive From the FBI Most Wanted List Captured in Mexico After 16 Years on the Run
Octaviano Juarez-Corro is accused of killing two people in 2006. On September 8, 2021, the FBI made an announcement. A Milwaukee fugitive wanted for murder would be added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, forty-seven-year-old Octavio Juarez-Corro.
Read full storyGruesome Murder From 1983 Has Left a St Louis Jane Doe Unidentified for 40 Years
Police still looking for any information to identify the child. February 28, 1983, two men entered an abandoned apartment building on Clemens avenue in St. Louis, Missouri, scavenging for copper pipe or looking for something to fix their car. That detail is mixed. They looked around the house, then went down to the basement. When they got to the basement, they could not see anything, one of the men lit a cigarette, and when he did, they saw something in the shadows.
Read full storyMan Arrested in 50 Year Old Cold Case Murder After Son Gives DNA to Police
Nancy Elaine Anderson was killed in 1972 while living in Hawaii. On January 7, 1972, 19-year-old Nancy Anderson was in her apartment getting a demonstration from two silverware salesmen when her roommate came home around 2:30 PM. Her roommate, 18-year-old Jody Spooner, joined as the men finished, with neither woman buying any silverware. Jody then went to her room to have a nap. Jody woke up from her nap around 5 PM; she went to the kitchen when she noticed that the water was running in Nancy’s bathroom, which she thought was odd as she thought Nancy would have left for work.
Read full storyMan Arrested in Connection to 2 Decades Old Cold Case Murders
DNA connected these California murders that were committed 16 years apart. In June 2022, an arrest was made, closing two cold cases in California. Seventy-six-year-old James Ray Gary was identified in a sexual assault case in 2021. Evidence from that case had been submitted to the state’s database and hit matches on two cold cases.
Read full storyNew York Fugitive Captured by Off-Duty Cop While Both on Vacation in Disney World
Quashon Burton had been on the run since 2021 after being accused of fraudulently applying for covid-19 relief loans. Wanted fugitive Quashon Burton was on the run for nearly a year before he was tracked down after being spotted by federal agent Jeff Andre on vacation at Disney World. Andre was also on vacation in a strange cosmic coincidence and spotted Burton while at the Animal Kingdom theme park.
Read full storyAbduction and Murder of Child in 1996 was the Inspiration for the Amber Alert System
Amber Hagerman was only riding her bike alone for a few minutes when abducted from a parking lot. On January 13, 1996, in Arlington, Texas, Amber Hagerman was riding her new pink and white bicycle she had just gotten for Christmas. In the parking lot of an abandoned Winn-Dixie grocery store, the nine-year-old Girl Scout was with her five-year-old little brother, Ricky.
Read full storyMan Arrested in the 36-Year-Old Cold Case Murder of Claire Gravel
Claire was found murdered in 1986 a few miles from her home in Salem, Massachusetts. It was a warm summer evening on June 29, 1986, in Salem, Massachusetts, when Claire Gravel celebrated with her softball team at Magleashes’ Pub. The twenty-year-old student was studying computer science at Salem State College.
Read full storyMan Charged for Murder of WW1 Vet Missing Since 1976
George Seitz went to get a haircut and was never seen again. George Clarence SeitzPhoto byNew York City Police Department. It was in early March 2019 when NYPD Detectives got a phone call from an anonymous tipster. The now adult said that when she was eleven years old, she saw her mother and stepfather burying black garbage bags in their backyard in 1976. The tipster believed the garbage bags contained a person’s body and gave the exact location.
Read full storyMissing Woman Caitlin Denison Disappeared in Texas in 2018
The last known contact was with her sister, and she said the man she was traveling with “makes me scared for my life.”. Caitlin DenisonPhoto byTexas Department Of Public Safety.
Read full storyFormer Soldier Charged in 1982 Murder of 5-Year-Old
Anne Pham was abducted while walking to kindergarten, only three blocks away. It was on January 21, 1982, in Seaside, California, when five-year-old Anne Pham convinced her mother to allow her to walk to her afternoon kindergarten class alone. The youngest of ten siblings, little Anne wanted to be like her siblings and not have her mother walk with her. The school was only three blocks away.
Read full storySuspect’s Ex-Wife Turns Him In For Murder of Neighbor 3 Decades Later
Joy Hibbs was murdered in 1991. Her neighbor, Robert Atkins, had been the lead suspect in the original investigation. April 19, 1991, had been a typical day for the Hibbs family. Twelve-year-old David Hibbs was released early from school and was walking home. As he approached his house in Croyden, Pennsylvania, he immediately knew something was wrong. The windows were unusually dark, and as he got closer, he saw black smoke pouring from a kitchen vent.
Read full story1978 Missing Person From Toronto May Be New York John Doe
The family is still waiting on answers 44 years later. The problem NYC Police lost the body. In 2019, the Toronto cold case unit began dusting off unsolved cases from the 70s and 80s, reexamining them and putting out appeals to the public for more information. Among the strangest and perhaps most frustrating of these cases is the disappearance of George Norman Heys.
Read full storyYoga Instructor Turned Most Wanted Fugitive Gets Plastic Surgery to Hide from U.S. Marshals
Kaitlin Armstrong is accused of murdering Anna Wilson in a jealous rage. Kaitlin Armstrong before and afterPhoto byHarris County Sheriff's Office. On May 11, 2022, twenty-five-year-old Anna “Mo” Mariah Wilson was discovered deceased in a friend’s home in Austin, Texas. Wilson was a professional cyclist and was in Austin for a race. Earlier that evening, Wilson had gone out for dinner with a fellow cyclist and previous romantic partner.
Read full storyWoman Whose Death Had Been Ruled ‘Accidental’ Has Caused a Community Outcry for Justice
The lawyer representing her family alleges the investigation was mishandled by Bridgeport PD. On the evening of December 13, 2021, Shantell Smith and her son went to check on her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Lauren. Shantell was concerned because Lauren wasn’t returning their calls or replying to their texts, which was very unusual.
Read full storyHas Law Enforcement Held Back Information on 25-Year-Old Missing Person Case?
James Mclaughlin went missing in 1998 without a trace. February 27th, 1998 was a cold winter day in Elyria, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb near Lake Eerie, surrounded by parks and forest preserves. On this day, fifty-seven-year-old James Mclaughlin disappeared from his Elyria home and has never been seen or heard from again.
Read full storyMan Who Shot a Police Officer in 1981 Identified as Serial Killer 40 Years Later
Joseph Michael Ervin would never have been connected without tremendous advances in DNA.
Read full storyWhirlwind Romance & Honeymoon in Fiji Ends in Murder for Christe Chen
Her new husband, Bradley Dawson, was arrested after attempting to flee the country by kayak. On July 7, 2022, newlyweds thirty-six-year-old Christe Chen and thirty-eight-year-old Bradley Dawson checked into the luxurious all-inclusive Turtle Island Resort.
Read full storySheriff’s Deputy Arrested After Killing Lover and Her Husband While They Slept
The victims, Maria and Benison Tran’s teenage son, witnessed the murders. Devin Williams JrPhoto byimage Courtesy of Dublin PD. On September 7, around midnight, 911 dispatchers received a call saying that an intruder had broken into their Dublin, California, home. Six people were sleeping in the home at the time, and two shots had awoken the household.
Read full storyPodcast Sheds New Light and Man Convicted of Murder Released After 23 Years in Prison
Highschool student Hae Min Lee was murdered in 1999, and newly tested DNA evidence points to a new suspect. Hae Min LeePhoto byImage courtesy of Baltimore police. Now, this case isn’t solved yet, but the podcast Serial led to enough to reexamine the case and release the previously convicted suspect, Adnan Syed. His original trial was deemed unconstitutional because the prosecution had withheld critical information from his defense.
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