Earlier this month, authorities in Mississippi said they identified an 18-month-old girl who was found dead in a river on December 5, 1982. As AL.com reports, Jackson County police said on December 4 that the child — initially called “Delta Dawn” — has been identified as Alisha Ann Heinrich. Heinrich was reportedly discovered near Interstate …
A Michigan mother was charged Friday with two counts of murder in the 2003 deaths of her newborn twin sons in Illinois, who were found dead by a Waste Management employee emptying trash bins in an alley, the Daily Herald reports. Antoinette Briley, 41, reportedly admitted to the “birth, death and disposal of the two …
On Wednesday, an Alabama man reportedly called the police and confessed to fatally shooting someone 25 years earlier. AL.com reported that Johnny Whited, 53, subsequently met with Decatur investigators at the crime scene and provided information about Christopher Dailey’s unsolved murder that corresponded with their evidence. Authorities believe Whited shot Dailey, 26, to death on …
Authorities in California announced Tuesday that skeletal remains discovered near an interstate in 1981 belong to a Texas woman who was reportedly known to hitchhike. As KTXL reports, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office announced in a Facebook post that the remains found off Interstate-5 belong to Lilly Ann Prendergast, 26. The missing woman’s brother told …
Genealogical DNA helped solve the 46-year-old murder of Siobhan McGuinness, a 5-year-old Montana girl who vanished while walking home from a neighbor’s at dinner time one cold afternoon in February, MontanaRightNow reported. The little girl’s body was found two days later in a culvert off Interstate 91, 10 miles from her home. She sustained trauma …
Extensive DNA testing has confirmed that a human skull found in 1986 belongs to a woman who was last seen at a group home a decade earlier, police in Oregon announced Thursday. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that genetic and genealogical investigators identified the partial remains as Wanda Ann Herr, 19. …
Will a mother’s dying wish to know who murdered and dumped her daughter’s naked body near a landfill be answered? It’s no secret that Washington State has been called the breeding ground of serial killers, like Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer. With all of its natural beauty and stunning landscapes, this area of …
On Tuesday, a trial date was set for a Florida man accused of raping and killing a New York girl in 1984. WHEC reported that Timothy Williams’ trial was scheduled for June 7, 2021. Williams, 56, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Wendy Jerome, 14, who was found beaten and raped in an alcove behind …
The slain woman’s family had offered a $100,000 reward for information
Detectives in the Florida Keys say they’ve solved an eight-year-old cold case, charging 54-year-old Hugh Timothy Blanton with the murder of Ronald Silvia, 65, in 2012. Monroe County investigators say that Blanton and Silvia were lovers and that Blanton was upset because Silvia was showing a photo of his genitals around the campground where they …
Remains found in north Georgia nearly 40 years ago have been identified and linked to Samuel Little, described by the FBI as “the most prolific serial killer in US history.” The 30-year-old woman found in Dade County on September 28, 1981, was Patricia Parker, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced. Little, 80, is a suspect …
A new syndicated series from CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace debuts next month, focusing on how new technologies — DNA profiling, genetic genealogy, and familial searches — are helping bring closure to cold cases. “Bloodline Detectives” debuts on October 2. Its second episode, “Murder in the Snow,” takes on the 1984 murder of Wisconsin teenager Traci Hammerberg, …
