A car resembling a vehicle possibly involved in a 9-year-old North Carolina girl’s 2000 disappearance was reportedly seen being taken from a property on Wednesday. WSOC-TV reported that authorities were spotted towing the vehicle from a property in Cleveland County. Though tipsters said a similar vehicle was seen picking up Asha Degree 24 years earlier, …
A 63-year-old Alabama man was arrested last week for the murder of Georgia pharmacist Julie Ann McDonald, who was found dead in her home on June 11, 2000. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said that Clerence George was arrested at this home in Birmingham and was being held in the Jefferson County jail pending extradition …
California investigators cracked a 51-year-old rape and murder last week after DNA led them to a suspect in Idaho. Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, was arrested in Lemhi County on Wednesday and charged with the death of Nina “Nadine” Fischer in November 1973. Fischer, 31, lived with her husband and their toddler daughter in unincorporated San …
A 78-year-old man has been charged with a murder that took place over four decades ago after investigators used genetic genealogy to link him. Deck Brewer Jr., who is already serving time in a Massachusetts jail allegedly killed 25-year-old Susan Leigh Wolfe in 1980, according to the Austin Police Department. Wolfe had just begun studying …
Detectives in California cracked the 37-year-old murder of a newborn baby found in a dumpster in Riverside and arrested the infants mother in North Carolina. Riverside Police said the infants body was found by a man rummaging for recyclables on October 13, 1987, and the baby girl’s death was ruled a homicide, although police did …
An arrest has been made in the 1999 slaying of a Georgia woman whose dismembered remains were discovered months after her reported disappearance. Sources told WSB-TV that Christopher Wolfenbarger was jailed Wednesday for murdering his wife, Melissa Wolfenbarger. Atlanta police listed her date of death as April 29, 1999. Melissa Wolfenbarger vanished after calling her …
New DNA procedures have cracked a 25-year-old murder of a Florida woman, leading to the arrest of her long-time boyfriend. The Sanford Police Department said that Gary Durrance, 73, has been charged with second degree homicide in the 1999 murder of Sherry Holtz, WKMG reported. Holtz was 50 when she was last seen on December …
The family of a 22-year-old murdered Atlanta woman hopes a new billboard will help police find the person who killed her. In July 1990, a maintenance worker discovered Princella Eppe shot dead inside her apartment at The Earle on North Highland Avenue, according to AJC. She was found deceased after she failed to show for …
Police in Arizona have arrested a man for the murder of a 15-year-old girl 20 years ago. Phoenix Police said they arrested Sergio Francisco Reyes, now 37, for the murder of Elena Lasswell on July 10, 2004, KSAZ reported. Police were called to a a home in northwest Phoenix that day where Lasswell was found. …
Family members of a missing Ohio woman are hoping for answers, more than 23 years after she left on a trip with her boyfriend and never returned. According to the Union County Sheriff’s Office, Patricia “Patti”Adkins left her job at Honda of America Manufacturing plant in Marysville on June 29, 2001, for a secret vacation …
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office hopes a $100,000 reward will lead to an arrest for the murder of Laralee Spear, a Florida teen who lost her life while walking home from school over 30 years ago. On April 25, 1994, someone abducted, shot, and killed 15-year-old Spear near her family’s home outside DeLand. Police believe …
The use of public genealogy database has resulted in an indictment in New York for a Florida man in connections with his uncle’s murder. Fox News reports that Rosario Prestigiacomo, 64 was found stabbed 16 times and beaten with a shovel before he died in his Queens home in 2009. The case remained unsolved until …
