Investigators

SPRING HILL, Fla.—Investigators have confirmed that remains unearthed in a Florida junk yard 41 years ago match a missing teenager, the victim of a serial killer now imprisoned for life in California, sheriff’s officials said. Hernando County Sheriff’s investigators, with an assist from the University of North Texas and Virginia-based DNA technology company Parabon Nano […]

TOKYO—Coast guard officials searched the office of a Japanese tour boat operator Monday as part of a criminal investigation into suspicions that professional negligence caused the sinking of a vessel carrying 26 people in a national park last month. The Kazu 1 sightseeing boat started the tour in Shiretoko National Park on the northeastern side […]

For over 100 years, police investigators have spent hours painstakingly poring over clothing to search for bloodstains as evidence. But a new technology from the Met means forensic scientists are now able to spot tiny specks of blood on dark clothing in a matter of seconds, sometimes resulting in crucial evidence.

They were in robust health when they were put on the operating table for doctors to carve out their organs. Many of them were still breathing. When the job was done, the bodies were tossed into the incinerator and burned, leaving no trace behind. The spine-chilling scene had been a lived reality for prisoners of […]

DENVER—On her family’s first trip since the pandemic began, 6-year-old Wongel Estifanos got on a vertical drop ride at a Colorado amusement park with her uncle, aunt, and cousins last month. When the floor pulled away from beneath them, everyone else fell in their seats down a 110-foot underground shaft. But Wongel, who was not […]

Investigators say that when they captured Marine veteran Bryan Riley outside the Lakeland, Florida, home where he allegedly killed a couple, their 3-month-old son, and the boy’s grandmother, he told them, “You know why I did this.” But they say they don’t and, in fact, may never know why Riley launched an attack against a […]

A father allegedly killed his two young daughters at his house before dumping their bodies at sea off the Spanish island of Tenerife