A tech company executive was arrested in New York over the weekend in connection with the 30-year-old homicide cold case of Laurie Houts, according to prosecutors. John Kevin Woodward, 58, the chief executive officer of the online training company ReadyTech, was taken into custody on July 9 at John F. Kennedy airport after arriving from Amsterdam, […]
MINOT, N.D.—A North Dakota woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her roommate more than a decade ago, with authorities citing shifting statements from the woman and her parents as they pursued a cold-case investigation. Nichole Erin Rice, 34, had a court appearance Thursday in Ward County in the death of […]
Three decades after infant remains were found in a North Carolina beach town, police say they have arrested and charged a couple based on new DNA evidence. Scott Gordon Poole, 54, and his wife Robin Lynn Byrum, 51, were arrested last week and charged with concealing the birth of a child, a Class I felony, […]
After nearly 38 agonizing years, the family of Kelly Ann Prosser finally has some closure. Police in Columbus, Ohio, said Friday they cracked the cold case on who abducted, sexually assaulted, and killed the 8-year-old, all thanks to genealogical testing and a podcast tracing the history of the case. Investigators say on Sept. 20, 1982, […]
Linda Laroche was charged in the murder of 23-year-old Peggy Lynn Johnson, whose dead body was found dumped in a Wisconsin cornfield in 1999.
Johnson, who was buried as a ‘Jane Doe’, was found to have suffered from ‘significant injuries’ and had been ‘brutalized by many means’
Her case went cold, but investigators continued working to identify the woman and learned her identity just a few weeks ago. That led them to Laroche
Laroche was arrested earlier this week in Florida where she was living and will be extradited to Wisconsin to face justice
Kimberly Hancock, 49, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of her former sister-in-law, Deborah Elaine Deans, who went missing in 2004, after a detailed tip to a crime-fighting Facebook page led investigators to a shallow grave on the woman’s property in the small town of Spring Hope.
An 84-year-old Texas woman was recently arrested and charged with the murder of her husband, who was shot and killed in 1984. Law enforcement says a reality TV detective show helped to solve the 35-year-old cold case.
SACRAMENTO, California—California prosecutors said Monday that they used an unusual tactic to identify a suspect for three rapes committed more than 25 years ago, keeping the case alive long after the normal legal deadline would have expired. Investigators tucked away rape kit samples from the attacks between 1992 and 1994 in the Sacramento and Davis […]
More than 30 years after she was killed, a Maryland man was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife. John Joseph Norton was arrested on May 1 after police presented new evidence to a grand jury, leading to an indictment in the Dec. 17, 1985, murder of Karen Norton, 23. Karen Norton was […]
INDIANAPOLIS—An Indianapolis man received a 115-year sentence for the brutal killing of a young woman two decades ago. The murdered woman, Kenya Edwards, was a 26-year-old young mother. Police found her charred body in the basement of her home on the east side of Indianapolis after the firefighters put out the blaze. Her wrist and […]
Police are hoping that an anonymous letter can help solve the 45-year-old cold case murder of a teenage girl in Texas. In 1974, Carla Walker was a 17-year-old junior in the Fort Worth suburb of Benbrook when she and her high school sweetheart, Rodney McCoy, were attacked in his car in a parking lot. Walker […]
An Idaho man pleaded guilty to a 1992 murder case on April 12 after DNA from a cigarette butt linked him to another unsolved murder case. Lee Miller, 54, was arrested on Jan. 2 based on DNA evidence that linked him to the murder of his 57-year-old friend Marilyn Hickey, said the Boise Police Department […]
Michael Haim, who took the stand to deny killing his wife and burying her body in their backyard in 1993, was found guilty by a Florida jury Friday of second-degree murder. The jury of three men and three women deliberated about 90 minutes before their verdict in the high-profile cold case was announced. Haim’s son, […]
More than two decades ago, 6-year-old child beauty pageant star JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her family’s house in Boulder, Colo. Now, a TV docuseries takes a new look at the cold case, reported Fox News. The series titled “The Untold Story” will cover events that have had a significant effect […]
