An Ohio man has been identified as the killer of an 18-year-old woman who was beaten to death with an oven grate in 1981. James Vanest, who was 26 at the time he lived upstairs from Debra Lee Miller in a Mansfield apartment building, was shot to death in November after barricading himself in a …
A Florida sheriff’s deputy got away with murder for 45 years, and even after law enforcement connected him to the crime, they determined he “would never be well enough to stand trial” after finding him bedridden in a care facility in Tennessee. John Greer reportedly told Charlotte County investigators that he shot Adele Easterly, 25, …
Colorado investigators are making progress in the JonBenét Ramsey case, according to reports. Sources told ABC that cutting-edge forensic and scientific technology is being used in the Ramsey case. They also claimed leading experts are involved in the ongoing homicide investigation. “I’m not sure what it will take to bust it wide open, but it …
A private investigator who has worked on the unsolved 1995 disappearance of an Iowa newscaster said there are four suspects in her presumed abduction and death. Steve Ridge, who has investigated KIMT news anchor Jodi Huisentruit’s disappearance since 2019, told “NewsNation Prime” that Huisentruit started dating a man about two weeks before she vanished. Ridge …
A recent tip reportedly led investigators to Minnesota in search of an Iowa news anchor who has been missing since 1995. Mason City, Iowa, police Chief Jeff Brinkley told FindJodi.com that their department worked with Minnesota law enforcement to investigate a lead in Winsted. FindJodi.com — a website dedicated to the disappearance of KIMT news …
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 …
