Police said they’re even closer to solving the August 1996 abduction of an 11-year-old Illinois girl who was last seen with a man in a car parked outside her father’s home. Inside Edition reports that the Moline Police Department have been using a series of billboards and Facebook posts to taunt the suspect or suspects into …
North Carolina authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying two children whose remains were found in Orange County in the ’90s. In 1998, a boy was found under brush near a billboard sign near the westbound lanes of Interstate 85 and Interstate 40. He’s believed to have been dead for several months before he was …
‘There’s nothing like a bad start to a case’
DNA technology has led to an arrest in a cold case rape and murder that took place nearly 40 years ago. 64-year-old Michael Galvan has been charged with one count each of capital murder and murder in the death of Debra Sue Reiding, an 18-year-old newlywed who was killed in her Austin, Texas, apartment in …
On Halloween day in 1989, 30-year-old Sylvia Salinas, of Galveston, Texas, was stabbed to death through the heart behind a register at the grocery store she owned. Nearly 30 years later, the cold case is coming to light again after the murder victim’s great niece, Christine Taylor, contacted a local news station after seeing a …
More than 30 years after a Texas college student was shot, stabbed, run over, and mutilated, law enforcement is still working to find her killer. KTRK reported that a worker was unloading items behind a sporting goods store on April 8, 1988, when he discovered the bloodied body of Jacqueline Michelle Graham, 19. Authorities said the worker first …
MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities excavating woods in southeastern Michigan for the remains of a 12-year-old girl last seen in 1979 also could be looking for the bodies of up to half a dozen others who have been reported missing over the years. Digging resumed Tuesday in Macomb Township, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) …
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The genealogy website used to find the man accused of being California’s Golden State Killer had no idea its database was tapped in pursuit of a suspect who eluded law enforcement for four decades, the site’s co-founder said Friday. The revelation came as …
“No one thinks they live next door to a serial killer. But at the same time I’m just like, he was a weird guy. He kept to himself. When you start to think about it you’re like, I could see him doing something like that, but I would never suspect it.”
Police in New York believe they’ve found the remains of a woman missing since 1966 under the Long Island home of her then-boyfriend—a married policeman. Louise Pietrewicz, 38, vanished without a trace in October 1966. The Cutchogue woman was raising an 11-year-old daughter at the time of her disappearance. People reported that the remains were wrapped in …
Traci Pittman Kegley mysteriously vanished in 20 years ago, leaving her 2-year-old daughter alone in her car on a rural Alabama road. Her disappearance has been a cold case for years, but not investigators believe they could be close to finding the mother’s remains. They reportedly have suspects on their radar. Nancy Grace explores the …
“When the tips all dry up, then I guess we move on to the next case.”
