Retired detective Karen Smith discovers that her father kept a family secret for decades. In 2002, her father revealed that Karen’s great uncle, Emory Smith, was the victim of a heinous murder and that her grandfather had been held as a suspect. Karen begins her journey to solve her great uncle Emory’s murder. Subscribe to …
Investigators in North Dakota have made an arrest in the cold case murder of an 18-year-old Minot State University student in 2007. Anita Knutson was found stabbed to death in her home when her father asked for a wellness check because he hadn’t heard from her in a few days, according to KXMB. Investigators found …
On Tuesday, Arizona officials publicly identified a girl whose burned body was found in a desert in 1960. In July 1960, a teacher searching for rocks reportedly found a child’s body in Congress at Sand Wash Creek. The child, who was wearing a buttoned blouse, shorts, cut flip flops, and polish on fingernails and toenails, …
Washington officials announced on Wednesday that they believe they have solved the 1995 slaying of a woman who was found shot and naked in a ditch. DNASolves.com and Kitsap County police said Douglas Krohne would have been 33 when Patricia Barnes, 61, was shot in the head and left in a ditch in Olalla. Acquaintances …
Bones found during the search for a missing Utah mother Susan Cox Powell were apparently not human. Susan’s father, Chuck Cox, announced Thursday that bones found during a search of an abandoned mine at Utah’s West Desert were not his daughter’s, who has been missing since December 2009. The bones appear to be animal bones. …
Authorities in Dallas, Texas, announced Friday they’d made an arrested in the 38-year-old rape and murder of Mary Jane Thompson. Thompson, 21, was found dead behind a Dallas warehouse on February 13, 1984, but her killer had never been found. Advanced DNA techniques led investigators to Edward Morgan, now 60, who has been jailed on …
Loved ones of a woman who was murdered at their Virginia vacation home is pleading for answers as the case continues to remain unsolved, PEOPLE reports. On July 11, 2017, the body of Peggy Lammers was found in the hallway of her family’s waterfront property in Deltaville on the Chesapeake Bay. Investigators determined that Lammers died …
A police officer is accused of the kidnap, rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl whose body was found in a Florida drainage ditch nearly 40 years ago, WKMG-TV reports. On Thursday, St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara announced that investigators have uncovered evidence that James Harrison, a former deputy, was responsible for the attack. The …
A Colorado man arrested last month on suspicion of killing a 15-year-old girl in 1978 was formally arraigned on murder charges this week. New Yorker Marissa Harvey was visiting her sister in San Francisco in 1978, The Associated Press reported. Police said she went to Golden Gate Park on March 27 for horseback-riding but never …
A 61-year-old North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with the kidnapping and murder of a 4-year-old girl 35 years ago in South Carolina. The Lexington County, South Carolina, Sheriff’s Department said that Wake Forest Police had arrested Thomas McDowell at his home north of Raleigh on Thursday. Jessica “Jessie” Gutierrez was abducted from her …
Investigators in Atlanta revealed the identity of the man they say was responsible for the 1995 rape and murder of 14-year-old Nacole Smith as well as another rape almost 10 years later. Acqunellia Smith, Nacole’s mother, told WGCL anchor Karyn Greer, who had been working the case since it happened, last week that a detective …
Investigators have identified the suspect in the 26-year-old rape and murder of Atlanta 8th grader Nacole Smith while she was on her way to school. Acqunellia Smith, Nacole’s mother, contacted WGCL anchor Karyn Greer — who has been reporting the story since it happened and was instrumental in convincing prosecutors to reopen the case — …
