The rape and murder of an 11-year-old Illinois babysitter has gone unsolved for three decades, but police say there is reason for hope that the perpetrator will be caught, WFLD-TV reports. Holly Staker was babysitting two children on the evening of August 17, 1992, in the Chicago suburb of Waukegan when an intruder entered the …
A 75-year-old man in Hawaii has been arrested and charged with the 40-year-old cold case murder of a 15-year-old girl found bound, raped, and stabbed 59 times just 100 yards from where she had been waiting for a bus. Karen Stitt took a bus from Palo Alto, California, to visit her boyfriend in Sunnyvale on …
JonBenet Ramsey would have turned 32 years old today. Her father, John Ramsey, is asking the public to help give his murdered daughter the ultimate gift: justice. Ramsey is seeking signatures in an online petition calling on Colorado authorities to allow for independent DNA analysis of evidence in the case, according to Fox News. The petition, …
Former detective Karen Smith set out to solve the oldest cold case in American history in the new season of the “Shattered Souls” podcast, and listeners believe she’s done it. During Season 2 of the popular podcast, Smith took a deep dive into a case that’s close to her heart, an unsolved 1935 double-murder cold …
A teenage girl found dead, beaten beyond recognition, in a New Jersey cemetery 40 years ago is unknown no more, and her alleged killer has been charged with her death. “Princess Doe,” as the community of Blairstown dubbed the girl in 1982, has rested for decades beneath a tombstone that reads, “Princess Doe. Missing from …
A 1990 hit-and-run left a young woman dead by an interstate service road in Oklahoma City, launching an investigation into a mystery with that took years to piece together. A man named Clarence Marcus Hughes, 41, told Oklahoma police that the dead woman was his wife, 23-year-old Tonya Hughes, and that they had a 2-year-old …
A 53-year-old Oklahoma woman has been arrested for the murder of her newborn son nearly 30 years ago. Baby Doe was found buried in a rural Choctaw County yard on December 8, 1993, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. The medical examiner conducted an autopsy and determined the baby boy was born alive and …
Acting Attorney General Matt Platkin says an investigation into a 2014 cold case, which has been highly researched and publicized by a well-known podcast, is being investigated. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Platkin’s office confirmed the investigation into the case of 72-year-old John Sheridan and his wife, 69-year-old Joyce Sheridan. Both were found dead in …
Prison letters between William Clarke and Mary Branch tell a sordid story of love and hate. Clarke also wrote to several other people from his prison cell, including a U.S. Senator and one woman who proved to be pivotal regarding a solution to the case. Subscribe to the Shattered Souls podcast now to hear more. …
A Florida man was arrested this week and charged with the murder of a Dallas lawyer who was beaten and then burned alive in 2016. Steven Aubrey had been on law enforcement’s radar from almost the beginning in the death of attorney Ira Tobolowsky. Investigators believe Aubrey was irate because Tobolowsky was representing his mother …
Genetic genealogy has closed the book on another cold case, this one the “I-65 Killer” who raped and murdered three women working as clerks in motels along the interstate corridor in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s. Indiana State Police said Tuesday that Harry Edward Greenwell was responsible for the deaths of Vicki Heath, …
A 35-year-old Michigan murder mystery was solved earlier this year with the help of Western Michigan University criminal justice students participating in the school’s cold case program. Patrick Gilham, 67, was arrested in February and pleaded no contest earlier this month to the murder of Roxanne Wood, a 30-year-old Berrien County woman found dead in …
