Nearly 40 years later, police identify woman found strangled in a cornfield on Halloween
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Her killer, a traveling carny, died in 1988 while serving a life sentence for her murder
Cold Cases
January 9, 2020
Baby Daniel: Arrest made in cold case murder of baby boy found frozen, dead in park
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 …
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December 19, 2019
CASE CLOSED: Abusive husband pleads guilty to killing wife 38 years ago
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 …
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December 16, 2019
Beer mug brings an end to 40-year rape, murder investigation
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, …
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December 16, 2019
Cold case cracked? Mystery man says he may be boy who vanished in 1994
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 …
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December 13, 2019
Renowned anchor Karyn Greer tackles tough cold cases with expert CSI & special guest Nancy Grace
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 …
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November 29, 2019
After 18 years, DNA identifies woman discovered in burning dumpster
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. …
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November 23, 2019
Daughter of suspect arrested for fatal 1980 stabbing of Navy wife vanished 30 years ago at age 14
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 …
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November 17, 2019
COLD CASE: Fingerprints solve 41-year-old rape case
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 …
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November 14, 2019
COLD CASE: ‘Potomac River Rapist’ arrested; raped & killed DC science intern and raped 9 other women
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, …
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November 11, 2019
AX MURDER SOLVED? Husband indicted for murder 37 years after wife axed as she slept
James Krauseneck Jr. appeared in court on Friday to answer a grand jury indictment that accused him of burying an ax into his wife’s head as she slept on February 19, 1982. Krauseneck, now 67 and retired in Arizona, appeared in New York State Supreme Court in Rochester with his daughter Sara, who, at 3 …
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October 28, 2019
15-year-old cold case solved by tip to Facebook crime page: Reports
A detailed tip to a Facebook page that regularly posts about unsolved crimes led North Carolina deputies to the body of a woman missing for 15 years — and to a suspect they’ve now charged with murder. Deborah Deans, 29, was last seen at the home she shared with Kimberly Hancock in Spring Hope, North …