Detectives in California announced Wednesday that they had identified remains found in Placer County in 1986 as a woman who disappeared in South Lake Tahoe 15 years earlier. Donna Lass, 25, was last seen on September 7, 1971, near an apartment she had rented the day before but not yet moved into. She was walking …
Officials announced on Thursday that human remains discovered in 2022 are a 5-year-old Virginia boy who vanished two decades earlier. On September 6, 2022, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of human remains in a wooded area of Galax. The remains, which had been there for an extended time, were confirmed to belong …
Maryland police have arrested a 62-year-old man for a cold case rape from 1992. Xavier Battice was extradited from California last week to stand trial, the Montgomery County Police Department said. Battice was identified via DNA from the September 24, 1992, rape in Chevy Chase. Detectives say the victim got off a bus on Wisconsin …
The FBI has prepared “facial approximation images” from human remains found in a barrel in Nevada’s Lake Mead last year and hope the images can help identify the man, who died from a gunshot wound. As CrimeOnline reported, investigators believe the man may have been killed decades earlier and the barrel revealed as a historic …
Newnan police in Georgia are hoping new information will help crack the cold case of a Georgia teen found shot in the head over 10 years ago. According to the Newnan Police Department, 17-year-old Blake Chappell, who vanished on October 16, 2011, was found murdered two months later. In a video statement last week, the …
A 48-year-old California man has been charged with the murders of a young father and his toddler daughter, who were caught up a gang shooting in front of the father’s grandmother’s house 22 years ago. Jahon Terez Smith has been charged with several 2001 shootings that resulted in the deaths of Stephen Murphy and his …
A 48-year-old Arkansas man serving a life sentence for the 2018 murder of his wife has confessed toe another murder — the 1991 death of 19-year-old Sabrina Lynn Underwood. Rick Allen Headley pleaded guilty to stabbing his estranged wife, Kirstie Headley, in March 2018 and was sentenced to life without parole. Sabrina Underwood disappeared on …
Late last month, prosecutors hinted that criminal charges are possibly forthcoming in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of a 5-year-old Idaho boy. Prosecutor Mike Duke told the Argus Observer that he expects charges in the Michael Vaughan case but undisclosed issues are complicating the matter. Vaughan has not been seen since he reportedly walked out of …
A 76-year-old man arrested for the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl nearly four decades ago was suspected of involvement in the disappearance at the time. Bender’s body has not been found. Court documents concerning the arrest of Raymond Lewis Stafford in Texas earlier this month say he allegedly confessed to an employee that he had …
Oklahoma sheriff’s deputies were at the site of the former home of the BTK serial killer in Kansas on Tuesday looking for possible leads on unsolved cases that could be related to the convicted killer. Dennis Rader was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences in 2005 after terrorizing Wichita and his home in the suburb …
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri is asking for the public’s assistance to uncover information about a 1991 cold case involving an 11-year-old boy. According to NBC 5, Charles Arlin Henderson was last spotted at around 5 p.m., cycling near his Moscow Mills home in the Fountain N’ Lakes subdivision on July 25, 1991. …
California authorities are taking another look at the case of a missing 4-year-old girl after a former pastor was arrested for killing an 8-year-old girl in Pennsylvania. David Zandstra, 83, was arrested in Georgia and charged with the murder of Gretchen Harrington in Delaware County in 1975. Zandstra was a pastor at the time and …
