Detectives in North Carolina have solved a cold case that broke their hearts 21 years ago: a newborn baby boy, umbilical cord still attached, stuffed in a plastic trash bag with the mother’s placenta and tossed out a moving vehicle. A soldier found “Baby Michael” on the side of a rural road outside the town …
North Myrtle Beach police have solved a 24-year-old murder using DNA evidence, naming a man tapped as a possible suspect in the 1999 death of Hae Min Lee by the podcast “Serial,” according to WPDE. Ronald Lee Moore, who had also been named in a series of burglaries, sexual assaults and another unsolved homicide case …
A long-haul trucker arrested last fall in connection with nearly a dozen rapes going back almost 30 years may also be a serial killer, Fox 13 reported this week. Mark Douglas Burns, 69, was arrested in September, the Deseret News reported. Since that time, investigators have linked him with at least two more rapes, but …
A registered sex offender in Florida who was arrested on Saturday in connection with a series of unsolved rapes from the 1980s reportedly kept a secret dungeon in his home. Robert Koehler, 60, was accused of sexually assaulting at least 44 women from South Miami to Deerfield Beach between May 1981 and February 1986. Since …
On Saturday, authorities in Florida arrested a registered sex offender who they believe committed a series of rapes during the 1980s. According to the Miami Herald, Robert Koehler, 60, was recently accused of sexually assaulting at least 44 women from South Miami to Deerfield Beach between May 1981 and February 1986. The then-unidentified suspect was …
A New Jersey woman who has been missing for nearly six years was reportedly found dead on Thursday inside a car submerged in a river. Vanessa Smallwood, then 46, was last seen at a dry cleaner’s store in Cherry Hill on January 27, 2014. Smallwood’s relatives reported her missing 10 days after her disappearance. Authorities — …
The mother of an abandoned baby boy who had frozen to death in a Connecticut parking lot in 1988 will not be criminally charged because the statute of limitations had expired, authorities announced on Tuesday. The Hartford Courant reported that the deceased baby, who the local clergy named David Paul, was found bundled in a …
Her killer, a traveling carny, died in 1988 while serving a life sentence for her murder
Police in Virginia announced on Tuesday that they have made an arrest in the unsolved homicide of an infant boy who was found dead in a park in 2003. Chesapeake police said their ongoing investigation and forensic testing led them to charge Melissa Chrisman, 41, with felony murder and felony child abuse and neglect on …
A nearly 40-year-old missing persons case ended Wednesday in Pennsylvania when 76-year-old William Korzon pleaded guilty to killing his wife and was sentenced to 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison. Korzon had long denied any knowledge of what happened to Gloria Korzon in March 1981, when she disappeared — even in April of this …
Genealogical databases and DNA from a beer mug to track led Colorado police to a Florida trucker, the man they charged on Monday with the rape and murder of a 21-year-old radio station intern 40 years ago. James Curtis Clanton, 61, was known as Curtis Allen White when he allegedly abducted Helene Pruszynski, raped her, …
Earlier this month, a 25-year-old man reportedly told Michigan police that he may be the 4-year-old boy who was reported missing from a mall in the 90s. According to the Detroit Free Press, the man has submitted his DNA as authorities work to confirm whether he is D’Wan Sims. In 1994, Sims was reported missing …
