Despite initial efforts by law enforcement to solve homicides and disappearances, sometimes these cases reach a standstill, leaving victims and their families without closure. Cold case units or dedicated investigators may periodically revisit these cases to uncover new evidence, utilize advancements in forensic technology, and receive tips from the public to help uncover hidden truths and potentially solve the case.
DNA evidence found on a napkin helped lead a jury to find Jerry Westrom guilty of murdering Jeanie Childs after the 1993 case went cold... More
September 9, 2022
The family of Yolanda Bindics is holding out hope that her killer will be caught and brought to justice, now 18 years after she was... More
August 11, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Scripps News Tallahassee) — A man who allegedly was involved in a murder case that occurred more than 25 years ago has been... More
August 5, 2022
Some parents wept as prosecutor Mike Satz described in his opening statement how Cruz killed their children at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb.... More
July 18, 2022
Teresa Ann Bailey Black is charged with felony murder, cruelty to children, aggravated assault and concealing the death of another in the death of her... More
July 13, 2022
William Reece, who was already sentenced to death for a cold-case killing in Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to murder in the deaths of three girls whose... More
June 29, 2022
A Milwaukee man is facing charges for a murder in Indiana in 1991 after prosecutors say he stabbed the victim multiple times in his apartment. More
June 22, 2022
The mystery behind who brutally killed the girl's parents more than 40 years ago remains unsolved and has Texas authorities seeking the public's help. More
June 10, 2022
"It's been four years. Nobody has said anything," Sharie Harris said about the 2018 murder of her son Tahjmere Hopkins. "I don't understand how nobody saw... More
June 7, 2022
DENVER (Scripps News Denver) — A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison in connection to the 1998 murder of a woman found on... More
June 6, 2022
SALT LAKE CITY (Scripps News Salt Lake City) — After nearly half a century, the Salt Lake City Police Department were able to finally solve... More
May 26, 2022
By: Erin Miller NORFOLK, Va. (WTKR) - For 22 years, Alondo Adam's family has been left without answers. They don't know who killed him, in his... More
May 26, 2022
BALTIMORE COUNTY (Scripps News Baltimore) — Baltimore County Detectives are still working to solve the 2009 homicide of Daniel Ho Coverston. These More
May 23, 2022
Lucille Hultgren’s killing was the only cold case in the town of 25,000 people 30 miles south of Sacramento, authorities said. More
May 18, 2022
It's a name and face most of Milwaukee still remembers, 7-year-old Alexis Patterson. This week marks 20 years since she's gone missing. More
May 2, 2022
The killing of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey captured worldwide attention after her body was found on Dec. 26, 1996 in her Boulder home. More
May 2, 2022
An Ohio woman accused of putting her newborn baby, umbilical cord still attached, in a garbage bag and leaving it in the woods in 1993... More
April 6, 2022
Indiana State Police has identified the man behind the "I-65 Killer," also known as the "Days Inn Killer." More
April 5, 2022
Just after midnight on Jan. 31, 1994, Independence Police found 26-year-old Diana Ault brutally murdered, her two young children nearby. More
March 29, 2022
On the morning of July 7, 1992, the body of Nona Stamey Cobb was found alongside the northbound lanes of Interstate 77 in Surry County. More
March 18, 2022
The missing woman — 25-year-old Susan Lund — was connected to a decades-old cold case out of Illinois. More
March 14, 2022
Richmond Police Department Sgt. Kelli Fraze said investigators never bought David Sparks’ story, describing him as “stone cold.” More
March 11, 2022
Baltimore County Police detectives are still working to solve a murder from 26-years ago. Wednesday marked the anniversary of when 23-year-old Jody LeCornu was found... More
March 3, 2022
Who Killed Curtis Walton? The young attorney was gunned down just steps from his Virginia home. More
February 28, 2022
A South Carolina man has been sentenced to life in prison for a killing that went unsolved for more than four decades until a DNA... More
February 16, 2022
A jury in Alaska found a man guilty on Thursday of the killing and rape of a woman at a university that went unsolved for... More
February 10, 2022
A breakthrough in the multi-year investigation into the case of a missing Baltimore woman. On Thursday morning, the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office announced the... More
February 3, 2022
Audio recordings of a Maine man speaking to police were played Wednesday for jurors hearing murder and rape charges against him in connection with the death... More
February 3, 2022
A man who died in 1981 was identified as the suspect in four cold case homicides in the Denver area, authorities announced Friday morning. The... More
January 28, 2022
Antoinette Parks was found stabbed to death on Jan. 24, 1981. Investigators told her family she had been stabbed 23 times. More
January 24, 2022
