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 …
A retired Georgia pastor has been charged with murder in the death of an 8-year-old girl nearly 50 years ago in Pennsylvania. Investigators say David Zandstra, now 83, confessed to killing Gretchen Harrington in Marple Township on August 15, 1975, KYW reported. Zandstra was a family friend of the Harringtons and pastor of Trinity Christian …
Police in Florida have identified a woman found dead and wrapped in plastic in a steamer trunk in 1969. The “Trunk Lady,” as she became known, is Sylvia June Atherton, who was 41 when she died, according to St. Petersburg Police. According to WBBH, two juveniles saw two men pull up in a pickup truck …
Investigators in Marshall County, Alabama, in the northwest corner of the state announced this week that DNA had helped identify a body found alongside a creek in the county in 1997. The homicide victim has been identified as Jefferey Douglas Kimzey of Santa Barbara, California, who was 20 at the time of his death. The …
Investigators may be nearing a breakthrough in solving the brutal murder of Russell and Shirley Dermond, a Georgia couple found dead near Lake Oconee. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Russell, 88, was discovered beheaded in his central Georgia retirement home in May 2014. Shirley was found 5 miles away murdered and floating in a lake. On …
It’s been nearly 33 years, but police in Alabama hope that new advances in forensic investigation — including DNA — will help them solve a mystery. A 14-year-old boy found a body on September 22, 1990, in a creek bed in Opelika. The young Black man had a gunshot wound to the head, according to …
