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 …
A new Atlanta podcast is taking on unsolved Georgia cold cases, including one particular case that CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace holds dear to her heart. Karyn Greer (pictured right), a six-time Emmy Award winner and former president of the Atlanta Press Club, is well-known as a popular morning and noon anchor on Atlanta’s CBS46. What some …
Police in California are closer to solving a cold case mystery after positively identifying the charred remains of a woman who was found in a burning dumpster more than 18 years earlier. Citing police, The Sacramento Bee reported that Perrean Gray, 20, was the woman firefighters found dead in a dumpster on June 29, 2001. …
A 70-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with the brutal murder of a Virginia woman decades ago, Mlive.com reports. Authorities in Hamilton, Michigan, detained Dennis Lee Bowman on suspicion of killing Kathleen O’Brien Doyle in 1980 in Norfolk, Virginia. Investigators from local, state, and federal agencies descended on Bowman’s rural Michigan property, where they …
Police arrested a 77-year-old man in north Georgia after Kentucky detectives linked his fingerprints to a 41-year-old rape case, WCPO reported. Michael Dean Tate is in jail in Union County, Georgia, awaiting extradition to Kentucky, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. According to a release from the Commonwealth’s Attorney in Kentucky, a woman in her 20s reported …
A man suspected of raping and killing a D.C. intern in 1998 and raping nine other women over seven years in the 1990s has been arrested in South Carolina, the FBI and Washington, D.C., area police said Thursday.. Giles Daniel Warrick, 60, was taken into custody Tuesday near Conway, South Carolina, on a fugitive warrant, …
