Police in New York have identified the remains of “Midtown Jane Doe,” found encased in concrete at a former Hell’s Kitchen hotspot two decades ago, thanks to a boost involving DNA from a victim of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The skeleton was found by construction workers in February 2003 in the basement of a building …
CrimeOnline’s “Zone 7” host, Sheryl McCollum, brought a Georgia cold case to New York during the sophomore year of the highly acclaimed Hamptons Whodunit Festival in East Hampton Village. “No tip is too small,” McCollum said during her distinguished “Crime and Wine” session on April 13. She presented the case of Melisa Wolfenberger to a …
The father of a 14-year-old Alabama girl reported missing nearly 12 years ago has been charged with her death. Mobile Police Cpl. Katrina Frazier said a Mobile County grand jury indicted Demetric Hooper on murder charges in the death of Brittany Robinson, AL.com reported. Hooper is in jail in Oklahoma City on unrelated charges but …
Phoenix police say they have arrested a 51-year-old woman in the case of a newborn baby girl left in a restroom at Sky Harbor International Airport 18 years ago. Annie Anderson admitted she was the baby’s mother to investigators who questioned her in Washington state, where she now lives, KNXV reported. The baby, dubbed “Baby …
a second Michigan man has been charged with murder of a 21-year-old woman found shot to death in a state game area more than 40 years ago. DNA tied both Anthony Harris, 63, and Douglas Laming, 70, to the death of Karen Umphrey, whose body was found in the State Game Area in Beards Hills …
The 1975 rape and murder of a 20-year-old Colorado woman has been solved when investigators matched DNA found at the scene with DNA from an ex-convict who committed suicide in 1991. The discovery also solved the 1991 rape and murder of a 30-year-old Las Vegas mother. Teree Becker, originally from Wyoming, had moved to Denver, …
Dad was captured on video crying after ‘finding’ Justin Turner’s body in the family camper.
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 …
